Sweden's Take on Private Pensions
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Sweden, long known for its cradle-to-grave welfare state, has already embraced a pension system that partly resembles White House proposals for Social Security.
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In 1978, Peter Ferrara decided to write his third-year paper at Harvard Law School on the subject of Social Security. A self-professed conservative libertarian, Ferrara argued that the system would eventually run into financial trouble and that the best way to fix it was to let people put money into personal accounts that could be invested in stocks and bonds.
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"It respects our spending reductions."  Italy's government and unions reached a landmark agreement on pension reforms on Friday after marathon talks, potentially resolving one of the biggest challenges for Prime Minister Romano Prodi's coalition. via Turkish Daily News
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Comment is free: Roy Hattersley: The prime minister has to decide on the limits of private enterprise within the public sector.
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Most big companies are coming up with enough cash to keep their pension funds legally sound, after three years of extraordinary losses. Not so their government backstop.
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Sweden's new Prime Minister ended 12 years of social democratic rule in Sunday's elections and now looks set to cut short an even older tradition.
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If you've got a pension, you're in the minority of workers today. Here are some tailor-made tips for you.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration unveiled a proposal yesterday to make it easier for companies to enroll workers in pension plans such as 401(k)s, a move supporters hope will increase participation.
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Thousands to leave work at 63 as retirement age goes down next year A large number of people in the private sector who are turning 63 plan to retire next year when new rules on old-age pensions come into ...
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Two pieces of legislation are intended to protect private wealth and create a more coherent tax code.
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Three years after President Bush&#39;s Social Security commission proposed adding private investment accounts to the program, the action is heating up.
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I haven&#39;t made up my mind on the subject of private accounts for Social Security. Unlike the Bush administration, I prefer to study the facts before leaping to conclusions.
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The Bush administration is focusing on a Social Security proposal that would allow younger workers to invest nearly two-thirds of their payroll taxes in private accounts, with contributions limited to about &#36;1,000 to &#36;1,300 a year, an administration official said Tuesday.
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When Chile implemented its private social security system in 1980, it was considered something of a revolution in Latin America, where poorly financed, often broke, state-controlled systems were the rule.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17 Â Sweden appeared set to sweep away 12 years of center-left government today, voting to reject its longtime prime minister, Goran Persson, in favor of a conservative candidate who has pledged to renew the Swedish welfare state.
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Around the world, public pension liabilities are regarded as the single greatest domestic problem confronting developed nations. Technically, fiscally, morally or politically -- whatever way you look at it -- pension reform seems close to impossible.
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The U.S. Social Security  Administration is set to publicize its financial problems and  promote partial privatization of the government pension system  as part of a solution, despite the objections of many agency  employees, The New York Times reported on Saturday.