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Recession Triggers 18% Drop In Global Pension Assets - International Financial Services London

Date 02/02/2009

Click here to download IFSL's latest report on the Pensions Markets. The end-2008 estimate of an 18% decline in global pension assets to $25 trillion is derived by IFSL from OECD data and does not appear elsewhere.

Points to note include:
  • the contributions to schemes running at less than half of defined benefit schemes, and
  • growth in the numbers of people of pensionable age staying in employment to supplement pensions.