Asia-Pac pensions debate burning issues

Asia-Pacific retirement funds remain concerned about the challenge of raising their growing foreign allocations, said top pension and social-security executives in Australia this week at a forum organised by Citi. Asian pension funds in particular are also worried about how to provide a sufficient income for retirement, and the issue of annuities was heavily debated, says Vanessa Wang, Citi’s Asia-Pacific head of pension services. The entities present – which between them manage…