FSC elected to the Executive Committee of the IOPS

Over 40 countries were represented in this international conference which is seeing the participation of more than 150 delegates. The forum themed ‘Care for the Future: Think of Pensions” and was deliberated upon by eminent personalities from the OECD, G20 and the World Bank including Mr Carlos Ramirez Fuentes, the new President of the IOPS, Dr Holger Fabig, Head of Division G7/G8, G20 world economy, monetary and currency issues and representative of the G20 presidency at the Federal Ministry of Finance Germany, Dr Pablo Antolin, Principal Economist and Head of Private Pensions Unit at the OECD, Mr Brendan Kennedy, Chair of the IOPS Technical Committee and Dr Gordon Clark, Professor at Oxford University.

The Global Forum was preceded by the Technical Committee during which discussions were centred on key topics including projection of retirement benefits, the Regulatory aspects of Fintech and the digitalisation of the Pension Industry, that is how new technologies can be used for provision of pension services to communicate and make disclosures to members of Pension Schemes so as to increase coverage.