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We have organized all LETTERs published since 2017 to fall into one of three broad categories of PENSION DESIGN, PENSION GOVERNANCE, AND PENSION INVESTING.

Within those three broad categories, we have further organized LETTERs into a number of topics:

Pension Design: Macro Perspectives

Feb, 2025
A Decade Of Pension Reform In The Netherlands: What Are The Lessons All Of Us Can Learn From This Story?
Apr, 2024
Providing Lifetime Income In A DC World: The Long And Winding Road
Dec, 2023
Better Pensions For More People: The Road Ahead
Dec, 2022
Pension Plan Design And Management In The 21st Century: Why And How We Need To Change The Conversation About Pension Reform
Sep, 2022
'Your Hundred Year Life': A Film That Explains Why And How We Should Retire 'Retirement'
Nov, 2021
Improving The Globe's Retirement Income Systems: How Are We Doing....And How Can We Do Better?
Nov, 2020
Benchmarking The Quality Of The Globe's Retirement Income Systems: What Are We Learning?
Aug, 2020
Has A 'Sustainable DB Plan' Become An Oxymoron? Lessons From Canada, The UK, And The Netherlands
Feb, 2020
Rethinking Retirement......Davos Style
Jan, 2020
Return, Risk, Time-Horizon, And Pension Plan Design: Another Look
Jul, 2019
Beyond DB And DC: Towards Retirement Income Plans For The 21st Century
Oct, 2018
Saving Retail Retirement Savers: What It Will Take
Aug, 2018
Can The Actuarial Profession Innovate? Another Look.....
Apr, 2017
Integrating Pension Solidarity And Sustainability: Lessons From The Netherlands And Canada

Pension Design: Micro Perspectives

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Pension Design: Macro Perspectives

A Decade Of Pension Reform In The Netherlands: What Are The Lessons All Of Us Can Learn From This Story?

Providing Lifetime Income In A DC World: The Long And Winding Road

Better Pensions For More People: The Road Ahead

Pension Plan Design And Management In The 21st Century: Why And How We Need To Change The Conversation About Pension Reform

'Your Hundred Year Life': A Film That Explains Why And How We Should Retire 'Retirement'

Improving The Globe's Retirement Income Systems: How Are We Doing....And How Can We Do Better?

Benchmarking The Quality Of The Globe's Retirement Income Systems: What Are We Learning?

Has A 'Sustainable DB Plan' Become An Oxymoron? Lessons From Canada, The UK, And The Netherlands

Rethinking Retirement......Davos Style

Return, Risk, Time-Horizon, And Pension Plan Design: Another Look

Beyond DB And DC: Towards Retirement Income Plans For The 21st Century

Saving Retail Retirement Savers: What It Will Take

Can The Actuarial Profession Innovate? Another Look.....

Integrating Pension Solidarity And Sustainability: Lessons From The Netherlands And Canada

Pension Design: Micro Perspectives

Can Pension Organizations Innovate? The Extraordinary Case of CAAT Pension Plan

How Do We Pay Better Pensions To More People? Why The Variable Payment Life Annuity May Be Our Best Answer

Transforming Capital Accumulation Plans Into Lifetime Income Plans: From Hope To Reality At Last

Pension Plans And The 'Duty Of Impartiality' Rule: Implications For Plan Design

Solving The Annuity Puzzle: Towards Practical Solutions Benefitting All

The Terms 'DB' And 'DC' Are Barriers To Pension Innovation: Time To Stop Using Them

Pension Governance: Strategy

"Value Creation Insights" Bartley J. Madden's New Book On How Organizations Build Knowledge and Create Value

Climate Models Built By Economists: Are They Materially Underestimating Climate Change-Related Risks?

Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Me? What CHATGPT Knows About Pension Design, Governance, And Investing

Investing Retirement Savings: Do Pension Plan Member ESG/Sustainability Preferences Matter?

Governance In The New Interdependent Instability Era: Is It Up To The Task?

The Future Of Pension Management: Are We There Yet?

The Future Of Stakeholder Communications: Where Do Pension Organizations Go From Here?

Now That COP26 Has Come And Gone: What's Next For Pension Organizations?

Business Strategy For Pension Organizations: Priorities For The Next Decade

The Canadian Pension Model: Past, Present, and Future

Managing Pensions Through And Beyond The COVID-19 Pandemic: How Scenario Thinking Can Help Us

Making Good Decisions In A Radically Uncertain World: The Case Of COVID-19

Canada's Expert Panel Report On Sustainable Finance: What's In It For Asset Owners?

Is The Move To ESG Investing Fake Or Real? How Asset Owners Should Address This Question

The 'Canadian Pension Model' Under Attack: Can It Survive And Prosper?

Is Your Fund Tobacco-Free Yet?

Why Your Fund Should Be Tobacco-Free

The 'Canada Model' For Pension Fund Management: Past, Present, And Future

Pension Governance: Education

Thoughts On Building An Effective Pension Governance Function: Two Differing Points Of View

The Pension Governance Education Program Is Alive And Well: Why It Continues To Receive High 'Value For Money' Ratings

Moving Asset Owner Organizations To Sustainable Investing: Advice From A Truly Expert Panel

Is The Curriculum For The CFA Credential Fit For Purpose?

Pension Governance: Performance Measurement/Benchmarking

"What Gets Measured Gets Managed": How Benchmarking Improves Pension Management

Can The CPP Investments Organization Pass The 'Legitimacy' Test?

Global Pension Transparency Benchmarking: Positive Evidence That What Gets Measured Really Does Get Managed

Do You Know How Much It Costs To Run Your Pension Organization?

From Integrated Reporting To Value-Creating Organizations: How The Medium Is (Slowly) Becoming The Message

'Asymmetric Information' Is The Biggest Problem In Pension Finance: Implications For Pension Design, Regulation, And Governance

Scale And Governance: New Insights Into The Drivers Of Pension Fund Performance

Making Your Next Annual Report 'Clear, Concise, And Compelling': A Practical 'To Do' List

Pension Funds And Organizational Reporting Frameworks: After A Year Of Good Progress.....What's New?

The New Global Pension Transparency Benchmark: What Is It And Why Should You Know?

Asset Owners And Organizational Reporting Frameworks: Time To Consolidate, Simplify, And Innovate

Governance In Asset Owner Organizations: Still Room For Improvement

Creating Value For Stakeholders And For The Greater Good: How CBUS Super Uses The Integrated Reporting Framework To Tell Its Story

Rethinking Asset Owner Performance Measurement: Insights From The Integrated Reporting Framework

Telling Their Value-Creating Stories: Why Asset Owners Should Use The Integrated Reporting Framework

Asymmetric Information, Investing, And Plan Member Wealth Extraction: New Evidence From Sweden And Australia

The State Of Integrated Reporting In Pension Organizations: The Cases Of California Teachers' And Ontario Teachers'

Managing Balance Sheet Risk: Do Pension Funds Know What They Are Doing?

Australia's 'Value For Money' Benchmarking Recommendations: How Their Implementation Could Be 'Fast-Tracked' Around The World

Pension Investing: Investment Beliefs

Unconventional Thinking On Pension Investment Policies: ICPM Awards $50,000 Prize To Top Research Paper

Where Did The Total Portfolio Approach Come From.....And Where Is It Going?

Rethinking Pension Fund Investing: The Journey Continues

Making Investment Theories More Pragmatic: How Context Clarity Helps

The New CFA Institute Treatise On Net-Zero Investing: The Missing Part Of The Story

A Pragmatic Theory Of 'Pension Fund Capitalism': Implications For Managing Pension Organizations

The Total Portfolio Approach To Institutional Investing: Fact Or Fiction?

Improving Investment Models For Pension Funds: How Are We Doing?

Really Integrating 'Net Zero' Into Pension Fund Investing: What It Will Take

Rethinking Pension Fund Investment Strategy: Why And How

Pension Organizations In The 21st Century: Is Your Investment Model 'Fit-For-Purpose'?

Investment Luminaries And Their Insights: The CFA Institute's 'Vertin Award' Recipients Have Their Say