The European Retirement Week (ERW), held annually during the last week of November, provides a platform for stakeholders to discuss the future of pensions in European citizens’ awareness of the need to save for retirement and achieve pension adequacy. This year, the ERW will kick off on 25 November 2024.

As part of the ERW, PensionsEurope is hosting a webinar on 26 November 2024, titled “Future-Proofing Retirement in Europe: The Need for More Funded Pensions. The webinar will explore Europe’s main retirement challenges, such as demographic changes, falling replacement rates, and growing fiscal pressures on governments. The webinar will explore solutions at both the European and national levels. It will highlight the crucial role funded pensions must play in ensuring adequate and sustainable retirement outcomes.

The event will consist several videos messages from PensionsEurope members and the European Commission on the retirement challenges faced in Europe and across Member States and European solutions they identify to tackle these issues. After the video, a live panel discussion will take place and dive deeper into the issues addressed in the videos.

Programme 

European Retirement Week – Programme 

Video

The video will be presented during the event. It consists of a series of short clips from the European Commission and PensionsEurope’s members on the main retirement challenges in Europe, the importance of funded pensions and other solutions for ensuring pension adequacy.

Registration

Register here via Zoom

OR

Use the link to the webinar available here.

Speakers

• Carolina Fernández – Deputy Director Regulation & Public Policy, Inverco
• Matti Leppälä – CEO/ Secretary General, PensionsEurope (Moderator)
• Stéphanie Payet – Private Pensions Analyst, OECD
• Beate Petry – Head of Pensions and Other Benefits, BASF and future Chairwoman, aba
• Yves Stevens – Professor, University Leuven
• Matthies Verstegen – Head of Brussels Office, Pensioenfederatie