Amid the general commotion in the pension market that ensued after the announcement that the 2014 contributions to OPS, the funded component of Russian mandatory pensions, would be nationalised and redirected to ...

The pension market will never be the same again. OPS will have to give way to something else, perhaps to corporate pension programs.

The Russian labour market has been increasingly the seller's market throughout the 2000-s and 2010-es, ducking for a short while below the trend in the 2008-2009 slump. The future holds little promise ...

Going joint-stock will mean the disclosure of beneficiaries and tougher regulations, including those on related party transactions.

Launching a corporate pension programme today, the employer gets everything the early bird gets: the kudos and the glory.

It awakened more people to their retirement … Skinny hipsters in their early twenties started liking and sharing pension-related news.

Whoever writes the scripts for the Russian pension industry, he certainly does not stick to stale conventions (you know, the classic five-act drama with tension gradually building up to reach its peak ...

As the proverb goes, the cobbler's children go the worst shod. I had worked in the pension industry for some time before an opportunity cropped up to sign up for a corporate ...

Wise men say, you cannot form an objective view of a system while within. The popular idiomatic imperative is somewhat misleading: "Thinking out of the box" is of little use before you ...

The cultural references to pensions in Russia have never been too bright or optimistic: reaching the pension age is like crossing the river (the Styx, or at least the Rubicon), the ceremonies ...