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Niko Väänänen
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Pension whisperer of BlueSky. Interested in sustainable retirement/pension systems. Social policy | economics | political sciences https://sites.google.com/view/nikovaananen/niko-v%C3%A4%C3%A4n%C3%A4nen
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 27d
Vous avez peut-être tout lu sur les retraites, mais une chose est sûre : vous ne savez pas comment sont élaborées les réformes des retraites en Finlande.

Si ça vous intéresse, page 101 👇

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Revue Regards N°65, septembre 2025 / Ecole nationale supérieure de Sécurité sociale
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 3h
Nice public webinar by the European Actuarial Association on Thursday November 13:

'How can we defend the public pension system?'

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AAE Webinar ‘How can we Defend the Public Pension Systems?’
Organised by the AAE Social Security Subcommittee Please register here Please find the program here The purpose of this webinar is to follow-up on the topic of “How can we defend the Public Pension…
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 9h
Huomenna Brysseliin kokoustamaan eläkkeistä ja maassa suurlakko, koska eläkeuudistus.

Perus.

www.brusselstimes.com/1780086/belg...
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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 6d
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 7d
'Wasika, from the Persian word for a written agreement, is a pension granted to the descendants and associates of the rulers of the former Awadh kingdom.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Uttar Pradesh wasika: India's former royals who draw a meagre pension
Descendants of Awadh’s former rulers receive small monthly pensions under a deal signed with the British.
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Anne Lavigne @alavigne.bsky.social · 10d
Un SECE est un Gink.
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Extrait du jo expliquant l'équivalent français de Green inclination, no kids
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 10d
Ymmärsitkö tätä pointtia? Eli joskus (nykyisiä köyhempien sukupolvien) olisi pitänyt perustaa puskurirahasto, jota nyt voitaisiin purkaa?
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 10d
I can think of a country where the first view dominates, and a country where the second view dominates :)

(Source: Lavigne, Economie des retraites)
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 10d
Bråk i folkhemmet?

www.ipe.com/news/row-eru...
Row erupts over imminent merger of Sweden’s pension buffer funds
Two Gothenburg-based funds, AP6 and AP2, disagree on how the smaller fund should be integrated into the larger
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 13d
Later, in the EU accession negotiations in the early 90s, it was agreed that the scheme was to be classified as social security because of the joint liability of the operators & PAYG character. [3/3]
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 13d
cope with high inflation in the 70s, retroactive increases of pension accruals, political meddling and unwilligness to raise contributions resulted in that the scheme was only 1/3 funded at the end of the 80s and that funding ratio was fixed. [2/3]
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 13d
Some people might wonder why Finland has so much capital/assets in the first pillar pension system (blue balk in the graph).

Well, the case is that initially the earnings-related scheme was designed as a funded supplementary scheme to the Beveridgean basic pension but failure to [1/3]
A graph depicting the size of pension assets in relation to the GDP of different EU countries.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 14d
Get the latest from @europeansocreview.bsky.social
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Tamkinat Rauf @tsrauf.bsky.social · 14d
Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 14d
Kuuntelin hiljattain lähetystä, jossa Olivier Blanchard pohti Ranskan julkista velkaa.

Hän näki, että jos (& kun) r = g niin maan kannattaa pyrkiä 1.) samaan perusjäämä nollaan (budjetti tasapainossa ennen korkomenoja, velkasuhde vakiintuu).

2.) pyrkiä sen jälkeen alentamaan velkasuhdetta.
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 15d
Gömt urfolk hotas i jakten på metall till elbilar

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Gömt urfolk hotas i jakten på metall till elbilar
Isolerade urfolk på Halmahera pressas av växande nickelgruvor och miljöförändringar. Volvo-maskiner används i gruvdriften.
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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 18d
Bessent openly buried Article 5
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d
Bessent: "Now Putin has started making incursions into the NATO borders. The one thing I can tell you is the US is not going to get involved with troops or any of that. We will sell the Europeans weapons."
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 21d
OECD:n eläketurvan progressiivisuusindeksin mukaan (ehkä jonkinlainen tapa mitata solidaarisuutta) Suomen eläkejärjestelmä ei ole erityisen progressiivinen.

Voi tietenkin olla, että suomen kielen sana 'solidaarisuus' poikkeaa alkuperäisestä ranskalaisesta, joka on hyvin egalitaristinen käsite
EU-maiden eläkejärjestelmien progressiivisuusindeksi, jossa Suomi on reilusti alle keskitason.
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 21d
Tällaisiin väitteisiin törmää aina välillä (Suomessa) Suomen eläkejärjestelmän osalta.

On tietenkin totta, että Afrikan maissa ei monesti ole kattavaa eläkejärjestelmää mutta kaikkialla Euroopassa on.

Kansaneläkekään ei ole 'universaali', kun sitä ei makseta EU:hun

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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 24d
Towards a 'Rhineland model' of occupational pensions?

www.ipe.com/news/industr...
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peterlindstr0m.bsky.social @peterlindstr0m.bsky.social · Sep 11
✨ The landscape of European pension policy is shifting. The EU is stepping up its role, aiming to strengthen funded #pensions.  As Special Adviser @nikovaananen.bsky.social notes, the involvement of social partners is key to future success www.etk.fi/en/topical-i...
European pension policy in transition - Finnish Centre for Pensions
Special Adviser Niko Väänänen of the Finnish Centre for Pensions monitors developments in pension systems across other countries and tracks the evolution of European Union pension policy as part of…
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 26d
Näin se AA lyö A+ (paremmalla likviditeetillä).
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · 27d
Vous avez peut-être tout lu sur les retraites, mais une chose est sûre : vous ne savez pas comment sont élaborées les réformes des retraites en Finlande.

Si ça vous intéresse, page 101 👇

univers-secu.en3s.fr/Default/doc/...
Revue Regards N°65, septembre 2025 / Ecole nationale supérieure de Sécurité sociale
univers-secu.en3s.fr
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · Sep 12
European actuaries published a new discussion paper "New Age for Social Security" in whic they discuss modern challenges for sustainable retirement pension systems.

Take a look.

actuary.eu/paper/aae-di...
AAE Discussion Paper - New Age for Social Security
CONTRIBUTORS David Bogotaj (Slovenia), Chairperson Working Group Demographics Daniela Martini (Italy) Gregorio Gil De Rozas (Spain) John Woodall (UK) Maria Economou (Greece), Lead Author and SSSC…
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · Sep 11
I knew Denmark likes sanctions

www.europeanpensions.net/ep/Bill-to-m...
Bill to make Danish criminals pay with their pension progresses through parliament
A bill intended to ensure that those who have been convicted of serious crimes are denied their disability pension or early retirement has continued to progress through the Danish parliament
www.europeanpensions.net
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Niko Väänänen @nikovaananen.bsky.social · Sep 10
Onpa mielenkiintoista.

Sveitsissä on pakollinen asepalvelus (miehille), jonka voi suorittaa pidempänä siviilipalveluksena.

Palveluksesta vapautetut joutuvat maksamaan 3 prosentin veroa tuloistaan 37-vuotiaiksi asti.
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Centre d'observation de la société @centre-observation.bsky.social · Sep 8
L'espérance de vie par génération plafonne. Des données inédites par cohorte.
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