Demystifying the Swedish pension model with Ole Settergren | Pioneering Pensions

The Swedish pension reform from the mid-90s was an unusually bold move. The financially unsustainable DB state pension was replaced by the Notional DC system which was designed to be neutral across generations. In addition, the individual DC system, known as PPM or Premium Pension System, was introduced as a second leg of the state pension.

This bold reform created a lot of interest internationally and Sweden is often seen as the role model that others could learn from. How does a Notional DC system work? What are the lessons after two decades? What are the challenges going forward?

Ole Settergren, director of R&D at Swedish Pension Authority is our guest speaker. He is one of the engineers who built the system and has been responsible for maintaining it ever since.

About Ole

As the long standing director of R&D at the Swedish Pension Authority, Ole is a renowned authority in the area of public pensions and he has written several academic papers on this topic.