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10.1.2019 Kesälä Meeri

Pension sustainability is more than liabilities and assets

Is the Finnish pension scheme in debt as only 29 per cent of its liabilities are covered by investment assets? Looking at it from another angle, the funding balance is 98 per cent. How can the figures be so different?

Meeri Kesälä

Mathematician

Pension contributions, financing of disability pensions

Phone +358 29 411 2310

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