Pension Research Council News

Our newest volume, Reducing Retirement Inequality: Building Wealth and Old-Age Resilience, is now available for order via Oxford University Press. Read More

The Social Security Fairness Act fails to address the system’s deeper financial issues and exacerbates the program’s financial instability, warns Olivia S. Mitchell, Executive Director of Wharton’s Pension Research Council, via thinkadvisor.com. Read More

By passing the Social Security Fairness Act, Congress not only continues to neglect the system’s looming insolvency but also accelerates its arrival, argues Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School argues, via newsweek.com. Read More

The Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that Capital Group has rejoined the Council as an Associate Level Member of the Council for 2025. Read More

Retirees often regret what they did wrong, including retiring too soon, not saving enough, and not buying lifetime income, report Olivia S. Mitchell of Wharton’s Pension Research Council and Abigail Hurwitz from the Hebrew University in their new NBER WP, reported by Kerry Hannon via yahoofinance.com. Read More

The Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that Great Gray Trust Company has joined the Council as an Associate Level Member for 2025. Read More