In this article, the authors emphasize the very important role that institutional investors, under the form of pension funds, hold for the development of capital markets existing in the economy and for supporting the financing process of institutional sectors in the financing deficit situation....

As consequence of globalization, in the past two decades, the international financial markets have become more and more interdependent. The financial globalization brought significant benefits to the national economies and to investors, but altered at the same time the structure of markets,...

The objective of this paper is to realize a configuration of today’s pension systems in the various countries member of the European Union. The authors put into discussion also the importance of private component in the supply of pensions, summarizing the debate regarding a certain...