SEMINAR INVITATION
Evaluation of the Finnish Pension System
7 January 2013, 1-4:30 p.m. at Pörssitalo, Fabianinkatu 14, Helsinki
An international and independent evaluation of the Finnish pension system has been
completed. The evaluation was commissioned by the Finnish Centre for Pensions and conducted by top international experts Professor Keith Ambachtsheer and Professor Nicholas Barr, who will present the results of their work at a seminar hosted by the Finnish Centre for Pensions. The focus of the evaluation is on the structure of pension security, the sufficiency and sustainability of pensions, and the management and cost-efficiency of the Finnish earnings-related pension system.
The seminar will take place in English.
PROGRAMME:
Noon-1 p.m. Sign-up and buffet lunch
1 p.m. Opening
Jukka Rantala, Managing Director, Finnish Centre for Pensions
1:15 p.m. The pension system in Finland:
Adequacy, sustainability and system design
Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, LSE
2 p.m. Comments:
Seija Ilmakunnas, Director, the Labour Institute for Economic Research
Jukka Lassila, Research Director, ETLA
Discussion
2:30 p.m. Coffee
3 p.m. The Pension System in Finland:
Institutional Structure and Governance
Keith Ambachtsheer, Professor and Director of Rotman International
Centre for Pension Management, Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto
3:45 p.m. Comments:
Suvi-Anne Siimes, CEO, the Finnish Pension Alliance TELA
Jaakko Tuomikoski, former deputy CEO of Ilmarinen
Discussion
4:15 p.m. Closing, Jukka Rantala
Please register for the seminar by 2 January 2013 by e-mail to jenni.rasanen@etk.fi
or phone +358 29 411 2385. As you register, please mention whether you will also
participate in the buffet lunch (and any possible food allergies you may have).
WELCOME!