La Carta de la Bolsa, a Spanish financial blog written by the journalist Moises Romero, draws attention to "Pension Savings: The Real Return", BETTER FINANCE's report on the gloomy status of private pensions in Europe.
Our analysis is also mentioned in an article in the Spanish and Portuguese versions of FundsPeople. As illustrated in the report, both articles clearly show that the tendency to blame poor returns on the performance of capital markets holds no water. Pension funds too often underperform capital markets.
Highlighting that "promises" to find the perfect pension plan may just well be advertising campaigns, Lasfinanzascambian.com takes Better Finance report to show that with no clear information regarding their performance, a lack of comprehensive and harmonised disclosures for long term and pension products combined with biased advice at the point of sale, it is nearly impossible to work out how best to save for retirement.
The report in available (in English) here.