GLOBAL – A forum on global pensions organized by the OECD and the new International Organisation of Pension Supervisors has been postponed.

The event, to be chaired by Ambrogio Rinaldi, head of Italian pensions regulator Covip, was set to be held in Amman in Jordan later this month. It was postponed due to bombings in the city.

The three-day IOPS/OECD Private Pensions Global Forum was to cover "Managing Risk in the New Financial Environment". It was to be sponsored by the government of Japan.

“We regret to inform you that the event has been postponed,” IOPS says on its web site. IOPS was set up in July last year under the chairmanship of the UK’s John Ashcroft.

IOPS holds its annual general meeting at the OECD in Paris on December 15, at which its proposed ‘Principles of Private Pension Supervision’ are set to be approved.

It added that it plans to work closely with the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors on cross-border pensions.

The panel was postponed due to security concerns following bombings in A
The organisation has around 40 members and will introduce GDP-adjusted fees next year to encourage more developing countries to join.

Speakers at the event were to include the OECD's Juan Yermo, the World Bank's Richard Hinz and Paul Thornton of Watson Wyatt.

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