GAI President Richard Jackson and Liaw Huang of the Terry Group gave a presentation on the long-term prospects for health-care spending in the developed countries at the International Actuarial Association's (IAA) 2025 JoCo Conference in São Paulo, Brazil.
GAI President Richard Jackson participated in the closing panel on "Megatrends and Macro Risks for Retirement Plans" of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries' (CCA) 2025 Enrolled Actuaries Conference.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on the economic and geopolitical implications of global demographic trends at an International Association of Consulting Actuaries (IACA) webinar.
GAI President Richard Jackson and Neil Howe, GAI Senior Associate and Demography Sector Head for Hedgeye Risk Management, gave a presentation on the economics and geopolitics of population aging at the Conference of Consulting Actuaries' 2024 Annual Meeting.
GAI President Richard Jackson participated in a panel on trends shaping the future of the workforce and workplace at the ERISA 50th Symposium. Watch video.
GAI President Richard Jackson was the guest speaker at an AEI webinar entitled Population Aging: Are America and the World Approaching an Inflection Point? View video.
GAi President Richard Jackson participated in a workshop on "Geopolitics and Sustainability" hosted by Mistra Geopolitics in Marholmen, Sweden.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on the economics and geopolitics of population aging at an International Association of Consulting Actuaries (IACA) webinar.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on the macro challenges of population aging to the Global Federation of Insurance Associations (GFIA) Aging Working Group.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on the economics and geopolitics of population aging at the Conference of Consulting Actuaries' 2023 Annual Meeting.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on the implications of population aging for great power conflict at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment’s (CSBA) Secretary of Defense Executive Fellows Program.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a keynote presentation at the 2023 Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Management Conference in Malaysia. The presentation explored the macroeconomic implications of population aging in East and South-East Asia, as well as the challenge of ensuring retirement security in a rapidly developing and rapidly aging Malaysia.
GAI President Richard Jackson spoke about the challenges and opportunities posed by the aging of the population at the Global Coalition on Aging's 2022 Forum on the Silver Economy. View video.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at the American Academy of Actuaries' 2022 Annual Meeting on the fiscal, economic, and geopolitical challenges posed by the aging of the U.S. population.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on the macroeconomic implications of population aging at the Conference of Consulting Actuaries' 2022 Annual Meeting.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation to the Social Security Committee of the American Academy of Actuaries on the fiscal, economic, and geopolitical challenges posed by the aging of the U.S. population.
GAI President Richard Jackson participated in a Geneva Association webinar organized in conjunction with the release of the joint GAI/Geneva Association report entitled Financial Wellbeing: Is It the Key to Reinventing Life insurance?
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at the 2021 Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA) Annual Meeting. The presentation examined recent U.S. demographic trends and explained why declines in birthrates and net immigration mean that America may age considerably more than current official projections suggest.
GAI President Richard Jackson and GAI Senior Associate Evan Inglis gave a presentation at a World Bank Webinar convened in connection with the release of Asian Provident Funds: Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges, a joint GAI and World Bank report. The presentation examined the overall strengths and weaknesses of the provident fund model and assessed investment performance and benefit adequacy in three of Asia's largest provident funds: India's EPF, Indonesia's JHT, and Malaysia's EPF.
GAI President Richard Jackson participated as a panelist in the Global Coalition on Aging's Summit on Solutions to Combat Ageism.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) Global Pensions Programme, 8th Edition, in which he discussed trends in retirement security in emerging markets and stressed the importance of developing robust voluntary pension systems to supplement increasingly inadequate state retirement provision.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at the Geneva Association's 2020 Health and Ageing Conference in which he reviewed recent trends in life expectancy and health expectancy in the United States and other developed countries and discussed the implications for productive aging and health-care spending.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at the Conference of Consulting Actuaries' (CCA) 2020 Annual Meeting in which he discussed the macroeconomic implications of population aging in the developed world, including the potential impact on employment, productivity, savings, investment, and GDP growth.
In this Concord Coalition webinar, GAI President Richard Jackson, together with fellow panelists Eugene Steuerle and Jason Fichtner, discuss the findings of The Case for Longer Work Lives, a joint GAI and Concord Coalition report.
GAI President Richard Jackson was a guest lecturer at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment’s (CSBA) Secretary of Defense Executive Fellows Program. In his presentation, he discussed how global aging is likely to reshape the geopolitical environment of the 21st century and warned that demographic trends are pushing the world toward a period of heightened geopolitical risk in the 2020s.
GAI President Richard Jackson was a featured speaker at the 28th Annual Conference of the Mexican Association of Insurance Companies (AMIS), where he gave a keynote address that explored how the aging of Mexico’s population will transform the economy, and especially the future environment for health and health care.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on retirement security in emerging markets to a delegation of Chilean deputies at the IDB Parliamentary Workshop on the Future of Work and Pensions in Chile.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at the CSIS Roundtable on the Future of Work in the Developing World in which he discussed the impact of demographic trends on development prospects around the world.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at a conference in Mexico City organized by FIAP and AMAFORE, the Association of Mexican Pension Fund Administrators. His presentation summarized the findings of Voluntary Pensions in Emerging Markets: New Strategies for Meeting the Retirement Security Challenge, a new GAI report which argues that the success of emerging markets at ensuring retirement security will increasingly depend on their success at building robust voluntary pension systems.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a keynote presentation on the economic, social, and geopolitical implications of global aging at the Longevity 13 Conference in Taipei. The conference, which was the thirteenth in an annual series on longevity-related challenges, was co-hosted by the Cass Business School, the Pensions Institute, and the Risk and Insurance Center and Department of Risk Management and Insurance of National Chengchi University.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation entitled “Global Aging and Retirement Security in Emerging Markets” at the 10th International FIAP-ASOFONDOS Conference in Cartagena, Colombia. His presentation explored the challenge of ensuring the adequacy and sustainability of retirement systems in aging emerging markets, and especially the potential advantages of the funded pension model. It also assessed the particular strengths and weaknesses of Colombia’s retirement system.
In this webinar, GAI President Richard Jackson summarizes the findings of Global Aging and the Outlook for Growth and Stability in the Developing World, an issue brief jointly published by GAI and the Pacific Pension & Investment Institute (PPI). The webinar explores how global demographic trends are likely to reshape the economic, social, and geopolitical environment over the next few decades, and in particular how lingering youth bulges in some parts of the developing world and premature aging in others could increase the risks to growth and stability.
GAI President Richard Jackson participated in a Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA) webinar on the Future of Social Security and Medicare. His presentation, entitled “Social Security and the Aging of America,” assessed the program’s long-term sustainability, explored reform options, and put America’s aging challenge in international perspective.
GAI President Richard Jackson participated in a workshop on long-term fiscal policy that was jointly hosted by the Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF) and the East-West Center (EWC). His presentation, which drew on GAI’s Global Aging Preparedness Index, assessed the progress that countries worldwide are making in balancing the adequacy and sustainability of their retirement systems. It also looked in particular at the challenges facing South Korea.
GAI President Richard Jackson was a featured speaker at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Annual Conference, where he gave a keynote presentation entitled “How Global Aging Will Transform the Economy and Society of the 21st Century.” While at the conference, he also participated in another plenary sesssion called the Global Pensions Summit, where he discussed recent U.S. retirement policy developments, as well as in a parallel session, where he gave a presentation on GAI’s Global Aging Preparedness Index.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation entitled the “U.S. Aging Challenge in International Perspective” at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA). His presentation, which drew on GAI’s Global Aging Preparedness Index, compared the demographic, economic, and retirement outlook in the United States with that in other developed countries and drew lessons for U.S. retirement policy.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation entitled “U.S. Development Policy in an Aging World” at the Asia Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). His presentation explored the implications of global aging for economic growth and social and political stability in the emerging world and offered recommendations on how U.S. development policy can best respond.
In this webinar, GAI President Richard Jackson summarized the findings of Meeting Hong Kong’s Retirement Challenge, an issue brief jointly published by GAI and the Pacific Pension & Investment Institute (PPI). During his presentation, he discussed the forces that are pushing pension reform to the top of the policy agenda in Hong Kong, evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of the Mandatory Provident Fund, Hong Kong’s state pension system, and explored strategies for improving the overall adequacy and sustainability of retirement provision.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation entitled “Global Aging and Retirement Security in Emerging Markets” at a conference in Mexico City organized by AMAFORE, the Association of Mexican Pension Fund Administrators. His presentation explored the challenge of ensuring the adequacy and sustainability of retirement systems in aging emerging markets, and especially the potential advantages of the funded pension model. It also assessed the particular strengths and weaknesses of Mexico’s retirement system.
GAI President Richard Jackson presented the findings of the Global Aging Preparedness Index at the World Bank Pensions Core Course, an annual workshop attended by pension system officials from emerging markets.
GAI President Richard Jackson presented the findings of Wave 2 of the East Asia Retirement Survey at a luncheon roundtable hosted by Asia House in London. The event was sponsored by Prudential plc.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at the 5th Annual Asia-Pacific Pensions Forum co-hosted by the Hong Kong Retirement Schemes Association and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia in Hong Kong. In it he discusses the findings of GAI's East Asia Retirement Survey and what they imply for the future of retirement security in East Asia, and especially Hong Kong. Since he was unable to attend the forum in person, his presentation was prerecorded and the video was played at the event.
GAI President Richard Jackson discussed the findings of Wave 2 of the East Asia Retirement Survey at the Pacific Pension and Investment Institute (PPI) Winter Roundtable in Los Angeles.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation in a Society of Actuaries webinar on longevity risk.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation in São Paulo at the 7th Conseguro, an annual conference sponsored by the Brazilian Insurance Confederation (Cnseg). The occasion was the Brazilian release of Global Aging and Retirement Security in Emerging Markets: Reassessing the Role of Funded Pensions, a GAI report that examines the challenge of ensuring the adequacy and sustainability of retirement systems in aging emerging markets, and especially the potential advantages of the funded pension model.
GAI President Richard Jackson was the featured speaker at a policy forum on retirement reform in the developing world hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Chile. The occasion for the forum was the Chilean release of Global Aging and Retirement Security in Emerging Markets: Reassessing the Role of Funded Pensions, a GAI report that examines the challenge of ensuring the adequacy and sustainability of retirement systems in aging emerging markets.
GAI President Richard Jackson was the featured speaker at a dinner roundtable in London sponsored by Prudential plc.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation at Prudential plc in London on trends in life spans and health spans and the implications for productive aging.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on the global aging challenge at the Department of Work and Pensions in London.
GAI President Richard Jackson participated as a moderator and panelist in the Chatham House Conference on Health and Ageing.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation in a Society of Actuaries webinar on workforce management.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a presentation on the geopolitical implications of global aging at a conference in Tokyo hosted by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center.
GAI President Richard Jackson gave a keynote address at the American Academy of Actuaries Summer Summit in Washington, DC. in which he discussed retirement reform initiatives in other developed countries and drew lessons for the U.S. budget and entitlement debates.
GAI President Richard Jackson discussed the findings of the second edition of the GAP Index at a roundtable hosted by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in Brussels.
GAI President Richard Jackson discussed the findings of the second edition of the GAP Index in the closing session of this Word Bank conference. The presentation focused on how well different countries are succeeding in balancing the twin retirement policy goals of income adequacy and fiscal sustainability.
