10 novembre 2020
15:00 - 18:40 (Brussels time)
Free entrance | online registration required before 8 November 2020
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Place Monstesquieu | Room Montesquieu 2 & Online on Microsoft Teams
International (Web) Workshop | Sustainable Pensions through Sustainable Investments?
10 november 2020 | 15:00 - 18:40 (Brussels time)
!! COVID | Due to the application of new mesures taken by the government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation on October 24, the workshop will be held ONLINE only !!
Organised by: ARC Research project "Sustainable, Adequate and Safe Pensions" (SAS Pensions) in partnership with the CRIDES (Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire Droit Entreprise et Société) at the Universty of Louvain (UCLouvain)
Scientific organisation: Pr Alexia Autenne (UCLouvain) ; Dr Maria-Cristina Degoli (UCLouvain); Kevin Hartmann Cortes (PhD Candidate, UCLouvain)
►Venue | The participants to the Conference can attend:
-at distance (on Microsoft Teams) - (The weblink and the practical information will be sent by email to the participants before the workshop)
or
-in UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Place Montesquieu, Room Montesquieu 2
► ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED BEFORE 8 NOVEMBER 2020 | CLICK HERE
Free entrance
The link and practical information will be sent by email to the participants before the workshop. Online participants are invited to instal the Microsoft Teams app (enlarged options than Microsoft Teams web version).
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The workshop «Sustainable Pensions through Sustainable Investments?» is organised by the legal team involved in the interdisciplinary research project: “SAS Pensions”. It aims to participate in the debate concerning the identification of a pension’s architecture, namely its ability to meet the goals of financial sustainability, social adequacy and safe governance. Mega trends such as ‘Ageing’, globalisation, and demographic and climate change are transforming our economies and societies. For this reason, the workshop’s Scientific Committee has launched a Call for Contribution, inviting researchers to discuss the concept of sustainability in Pension policies. To address these topics, the presentations will be organized as followed. From a financial perspective a sustainable pension architecture calls for sustainable investment considerations. Whereas sustainability in the pension systems requires a sustainable social protection scheme organised in a more inclusive and flexible way in order to support employment relationships in the labour market. In the first section, speakers will discuss the financial responsibilities and retirement risks shared between the state and beneficiaries, and/or non-State actors (employers/employees) in a scenario where a growing importance has been placed on “non-state furnished” pension products such as individual savings and complementary pension plans. In the second section, speakers will debate the challenges which arise in social protection systems that focus on the provision of pension security. Technological progress, together with more flexible working needs, is compromising the typical social protection scheme based on the premise of a stable, full-time and linear career. |
PROGRAMME14:45 – 15:00 Welcome Workshop’s introduction15:00 – 15:05 Alexia Autenne, UCLouvain (Belgium) First Section – Financial responsabilities and retirement risks in pensions15:05 – 15:20 Michel Martone, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) | Pensions Reform and Intergenerational risk-sharing after the Covid-19. 15:15 – 15:35 Lauren Daniels, Antwerp Bar (Belgium) - David Pratt, Albany Law School (NY, USA) - Yves Stevens, KULeuven (Belgium) | Environmentally friendly and socially responsible investment in occupational pension funds in the USA and EU. 15:25 – 15:50 Ewan McGaughey, School of Law King’s College (United Kingdom) | Governance of pensions for sustainability and democracy. 15:50 – 16:05 Liudmila Strakodonskaya, Université Paris II (France) | ESG and fiduciary duties in the management of pension assets. 16:05 – 16:20 Alessandro Beletti, University of Verona (Italy) | The Italian complementary pension system: between the European framework, sustainability needs and the principle of intergenerational solidarity. Comparative profiles and role of the ILO in the transnational social security privatization process. 16:20 – 16:35 Niko Väänänen, Finnish Centre for Pensions (Finland) | What drives the sustainable investment strategies of pension funds? A comparison of Finnish and Swedish public buffer funds. 16:35 – 16:50 Questions and answers. Please note that online participants can propose their questions trough the «Microsoft Teams’chat»; a moderator will introduce questions to the speakers. 16:50 – 17:00 Break Second Section – Incoming challenges for social protection systems17:00 – 17:15 Mauricio Olivera, Director of Econometria (Colombia) | Matching Defined Contributions in Pension Reforms. A policy experience in Colombia. 17:15 – 17:30 Nelly Rotich, University of Pretoria (South Africa) | Pro or Anti-reform? Analysis of Freedom of Choice in Pension Schemes. 17:30 – 17:45 Joanna Rutecka-Góra, Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) | Deficiencies in the supplementary old age pension market from the perspective of regulatory policy – the case of CEE countries. 17:45 – 18:00 Sarah Knoops, University of Antwerp (Belgium) | Will the unified status between blue-collar and white-collar workers lead to more adequate and sustainable occupational pensions? 18:00 – 18:25 Questions and answers. Please note that online participants can propose their questions trough the «Microsoft Teams’chat»; a moderator will introduce questions to the speakers. Concluding Speach17:25 – 18:40 Hans van Meerten, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) | The report the High-level group (HLG) of experts on pensions: what solutions do we need in Europe? |
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
► Registration: Free entrance & online registration required before 8 November 2020: click here
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►Venue | The participants to the Conference can attend:
-at distance (on Microsoft Teams) - (The weblink and the practical information will be sent by email to the participants before the workshop)
or
-at UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Place Montesquieu, Room Montesquieu 2
►Documentation | Will be sent to the particpants after the workshop
►Contact | ariane.robyn@uclouvain.be | +32 10 47 47 49
ARC Research project « Sustainable, Adequate and Safe Pensions (SAS Pensions) » 2018-2023 funded by the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles