Project Title

Comprehensive Review of the Policy and Regulatory Architecture that Governs the Defined Benefit Pension Scheme

Date

December 2014 – March 2015

Country

Nigeria (Abuja)

Client

Pensions Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD)

Short Description

Evaluated the policy and regulatory architecture that has governed the Nigerian pension industry. It examined all past pension schemes with a view to analysing pertinent issues including the: rationale; beneficiaries; strengths; weaknesses; and specific problems that each scheme was created to solve. The objectives of the assignment included to: comprehensively review past pension laws & schemes; analyse relevant policy issues facing the industry; identify and suggest solutions to some of the challenges facing the industry; and, develop recommendations for the formulation of innovative pension policy decisions.