International Web Workshop: Sustainable Pensions through Sustainable Investments?
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 - Sun, 11 Oct 2020
Online, Belgium
Organized by: UCLouvain
Contact: ariane.robyn@uclouvain.be
What do we speak about when we argue that pension systems should be sustainable?
Do ‘sustainable investments’ play a significant role in that equation?
As a result of the demographic and sustainability challenges there is a recent trend to share financial responsibilities and retirement risks between the state, beneficiaries and other actors.
Hence, an accent in introducing market mechanisms or individualization techniques in both public and private plans has been put in place within the pension policy sphere.
These and other questions derived from this context will be addressed in our international [web] workshop on 10 November 2020 at 15:00 Brussels time.
PROGRAM
14:45 – 15:00 Welcome
Workshop’s introduction
15:00 – 15:05 Alexia Autenne, UCLouvain (Belgium)
First Section – Financial responsabilities and retirement risks in pensions
15:05 – 15:20 Michel Martone, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) | Pensions Reform and Intergenerational risk-sharing after the Covid-19.
15:15 – 15:35 Lauren Daniels, Antwerp Bar (Belgium) - David Pratt, Albany Law School (NY, USA) - Yves Stevens, KULeuven (Belgium) | Environmentally friendly and socially responsible investment in occupational pension funds in the USA and EU.
15:25 – 15:50 Ewan McGaughey, School of Law King’s College (United Kingdom) | Governance of pensions for sustainability and democracy.
15:50 – 16:05 Liudmila Strakodonskaya, Université Paris II (France) | ESG and fiduciary duties in the management of pension assets.
16:05 – 16:20 Alessandro Beletti, University of Verona (Italy) | The Italian complementary pension system: between the European framework, sustainability needs and the principle of intergenerational solidarity. Comparative profiles and role of the ILO in the transnational social security privatization process.
16:20 – 16:35 Niko Väänänen, Finnish Centre for Pensions (Finland) | What drives the sustainable investment strategies of pension funds? A comparison of Finnish and Swedish public buffer funds.
16:35 – 16:50 Questions and answers. Please note that online participants can propose their questions trough the «Microsoft Teams’chat»; a moderator will introduce questions to the speakers.
16:50 – 17:00 Break
Second Section – Incoming challenges for social protection systems
17:00 – 17:15 Mauricio Olivera, Director of Econometria (Colombia) | Matching Defined Contributions in Pension Reforms. A policy experience in Colombia.
17:15 – 17:30 Nelly Rotich, University of Pretoria (South Africa) | Pro or Anti-reform? Analysis of Freedom of Choice in Pension Schemes.
17:30 – 17:45 Joanna Rutecka-Góra, Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) | Deficiencies in the supplementary old age pension market from the perspective of regulatory policy – the case of CEE countries.
17:45 – 18:00 Sarah Knoops, University of Antwerp (Belgium) | Will the unified status between blue-collar and white-collar workers lead to more adequate and sustainable occupational pensions?
18:00 – 18:25 Questions and answers. Please note that online participants can propose their questions trough the «Microsoft Teams’chat»; a moderator will introduce questions to the speakers.
Concluding Speech
17:25 – 18:40 Hans van Meerten, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) | The report the High-level group (HLG) of experts on pensions: what solutions do we need in Europe?
