In November 2018, GCOA partnered with the Tokyo-based Health and Global Policy Institute to convene an expert meeting on “The Impact of Innovation Across Technology, Health, Care and Urban Design for Super-Ageing Societies.” The meeting brought together 30-40 top Japanese and global experts across academia, government, NGOs, and the private sector to exchange views and gain…

Global companies of the future will likely look very different from those of today for two reasons. First, as a consequence of 20th-century gains in longevity, advances in healthy aging, and increasingly flexible working environments, many more people will be willing and able to work into their 60s, 70s, and 80s. Second, declining birth rates…

This first-of-its-kind report assesses the retirement outlook of self-employed people around the world. Based on a survey of 1,600 people across 15 countries, this new report finds that the self-employed have a flexible vision of retirement and face unique challenges in terms of retirement planning.

GCOA partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to co-create Transformation Maps on the topic of aging. WEF’s new Transformation Maps help users to explore and make sense of the complex and interlinked forces that are transforming economies, industries, and global issues. The Transformation Maps allows users to visualize and understand more than 120 topics and the connections and…

The seventh annual Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey draws on findings from workers and retirees from 15 countries spanning Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. The 2018 report finds that the “social contract” for retirement is crumbling, and almost half of today’s workers and retirees believe that future generations of retirees will be worse off. The…