Welcome to the 4th Annual Pensión Conference, themed “Rethinking Pensions for an Ageing World.” This online conference will bring together leading academics, young pension professionals, industry experts, and regulators to explore how pension systems can adapt to demographic change, with a focus on policy-making, behavioral science, and digitalization.
Taking place on 24th September 2026, this one-day online event will feature in-depth debates, inspiring keynote sessions, and practical panel discussions. Topics will include auto-enrollment policies in developed and emerging markets, the role of behavioral technology in encouraging pension savings, strategies to improve the performance of default funds, the gender pension gap, and the transformative potential of AI across the pension ecosystem.
Participants will join from across the globe, including academics, students, government authorities, officials from international organizations, pension experts, actuaries, fintech innovators, pension-tech companies, and representatives from research and financial institutions.
Registration is free of charge, and the registration link will be available soon.
Platinum Sponsors
PFR Portal PPK Sp. z o.o. is responsible for the dissemination and promotion of Employee Capital Plans (PPK). The company's mission is to gather and share information about the programme's operation, and more broadly, to raise awareness of the importance of long-term saving. This is carried out primarily through mojeppk.pl, for which the company serves as the official operator.
PPK (Employee Capital Plans) is a voluntary, private, long-term savings scheme designed to help employees in Poland build up funds for their future retirement. Savings within PPK are accumulated through joint contributions from the employee and employer, along with state-funded subsidies. More on PPK: on: mojeppk.pl.
VITALIS is an actuarial consultancy company with 29 years of experience and one of the ten biggest independent investment advisors in Mexico (with audited returns). It has more than 900 clients and has impacted more than 600 thousand workers through pension plans, funds, and savings.
Their mission is to provide their employees with the opportunity of a decent retirement, reduce costs through the use of technology, and invest their pension funds with outstanding returns.
Smart is a global savings and investments technology platform provider. Its mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing around the world.
Smart partners with governments and financial institutions (including insurers, asset managers, banks, financial advisers) to deliver retirement savings and income solutions that are digital, bespoke and cost efficient. In addition to the UK, Smart is operating in the USA, Europe, Australia and the Middle East with more than a million savers entrusting over £10 billion in assets on the platform.
Smart supports its clients with a global team. Aquiline Capital Partners, Barclays, Chrysalis Investments, DWS Group, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Legal & General, the Link Group and Natixis Investment Managers are all investors in Smart.
Festina Finance is revolutionising pension administration with Festina Life and Pension - a modular, client-configurable technology platform supporting DB, DC, CDC, and life products. Festina Life and Pension enables pension funds, insurers, and administrators to automate operations, accelerate regulatory change, and focus on strategy and innovation - all while delivering better outcomes for their members.
With proven success in Denmark and the Netherlands, including powering Europe’s largest pension provider with over £500bn in assets, Festina is scaling fast and is on track for €1 trillion in assets and 9 million savers running through the software, positioning Festina as Europe’s premier life and pensions platform.
The Pension Monitoring Center (“PMC”) was established in 2003 pursuant to The Private Pension Savings And Investment System Law enacted in the same year. The Board of Directors of PMC is composed of top managers from the policy-making ministry and the regulatory & supervisory authority and the CEOs of all pension companies.
The said law defines the PMC’s mission as “ensuring the safe and effective operation of the private pension system and protecting participants' rights and interests”. Within this context, PMC collects real-time online data regarding all transactions, investments, and accounts so as to closely monitor the market. PMC submits reports on systemic risks and market compliance & conduct to the relevant public authorities. In addition, PMC helps the regulatory and supervisory authorities generate policies and improve the quality of pension regulations. Moreover, PMC carries out operations of state contributions. PMC also provides digital services for the stakeholders.
Retirement Line is the largest D2C annuity guidance intermediary in the UK. They are a family-owned business based in Peterborough, employing around 80 people. They support over 35,000 consumers each year with their pension income options. They have always specialised in annuities; their annuity expertise and professionalism enable them to provide annuity quotations from every open market annuity provider in the UK, along with obtaining preferential annuity rates for their customers.
Content Sponsor
Media Partner
Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) is a globally focused pan-European publisher with a target audience of pension funds, other relevant institutional investors, and those who work with them. Our award-winning and market-leading journalism, data and analysis informs professional decision makers working for leading asset owners, asset managers and their advisers. IPE has offices in London and Amsterdam, and is part of FD Mediagroep (FDMG).
Speakers
We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers for the 4th Annual Pensión Conference: Prof. Oliver Hart, 2016 Nobel Prize Winner in Economic Sciences and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and John F. Campbell, Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
The full list of speakers will be available here soon.
Agenda
The conference agenda and speakers’ biographies will be available here soon.