In the upcoming VdA roundtable held at the French Senate Friday 14th February 2025, we’ll be sharing the early results from our ‘Future of Retirement and Investing’ research primer co-authored with Lionel Tourtier, advisory convention member, Fondation Charles-de-Gaulle, executive director, LT Savings Retirement & Growth Assn. (Génération ERIC), and the Hon. Nick Sherry, former pensions minister of Australia. That high-level event is chaired by Cédric Leboussi, founder & managing director, Vud’Ailleurs.com (VdA), the European online journal

Register: [email protected] Open only to pension/caisses de retraite administrators and board members (trustees), senior banking, asset management and insurance executives (CAC40, FTSE100 etc.) and financial journalists (limitations may apply)

I will explain notably why pension assets constitute “the new wealth of nations”, without which massive investments in tech including AI and advanced quantum computing etc. and solid economic growth “are almost impossible in the Age of Geoeconomics” (post-globalization, Cold War 2, Trump White House). The term pension superpowers (or “pension powers”) was coined by Nicolas Firzli, executive director of the World Pensions Conference and the Hon. Nick Sherry, who argue that: 

At a time when government spending faces unprecedented limitations (fiscal austerity, debt crises, end of quantitative easing) and traditional sources of long-term capital such as banks (‘financial producers’) are constrained by draconian regulations (Basel solvency rules), institutional asset owners i.e. large pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and endowments have become the main source of capital in many countries. And their “share of voice” is set to rise further in the coming years: pension funds are now, by far, the world’s preeminent asset owners, with more than $ 55 trillions in combined assets. For perspective, this amount represents practically 90% of the overall GDP of all OECD countries put together. The largest pension funds are found in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK and Scandinavia

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