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The pension assets of the earnings-related pension scheme decreased in 2018 by 6.1 billion euros, amounting to 196 billion euros at year-end. The last time the pension assets decreased was in 2011, as a result of the euro crisis. Examine the money flows with the visualisation of the earnings-related pension money flows.

Each year, the Finnish Centre for Pensions grants a Pro Gradu Award to a distinguished Master’s thesis. This year, the award was granted to a thesis from the Tampere University on rehabilitation within the earnings-related pension system. The author of the winning thesis, Natalia Edelmann, has a clear vision: she wants to prevent discontinued rehabilitations.

One of the most distinguished experts on social indicators, Rudi Van Dam (Chair of the Indicators Subgroup ISG) is one of the keynote speakers at Pension Adequacy in Europe – Today and Tomorrow. The conference, a side event of Finland’s EU presidency, is organised in Helsinki on 17 September 2019 by the Finnish Centre for …

Pocket Statistics, published by the Finnish Centre for Pensions, includes central statistical data, time series and info-graphics on pensions. The most recent figures date back to year-end 2018.

The population is ageing in all EU countries. What kind of pensions can you expect to get in Europe? Are the schemes sustainable, both financially and socially? What is the European response to the related challenges?

In our seminar in June, we will take a closer look at the effects of pension reforms. What carrots and sticks have deferred retirement in Finland and the United Kingdom? Which solutions have proved inefficient? The speakers include, among others, Ricky Kanabar (University of Bath).

207 000 self-employed persons were insured under the Self-employed Persons’ Pensions Act in 2018. Every fourth of them set their confirmed income, which forms the basis of their future pension and other social insurance, at or near the minimum requirement. Of the newly self-employed, two out of five underinsured themselves, statistics of the Finnish Centre …

The generous German pension reforms have raised extensive discussions about the sustainability of the country’s pension system. Researcher Dina Frommert from Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund explains the content of the recent reforms and the results of the life cycle research at our research seminar on 23 May.

As of the end of March, Estonia has granted only online A1 certificates for workers posted from Estonia to other EU countries. These certificates are different from the previous ones in that they lack the signature and stamp of the granting institution.

Shortages in earnings-related pension insurance exist in all fields. Yet the construction field shows more insurance irregularities than other fields. This is evident from the customer classification made by the Grey Economy Information Unit of the Tax Administration.