Publications & Documents

Webinar on Addressing the Protection Gap for Pandemic Risk

This webinar focused on the impact that the COVID-19 crisis has had on different types of policyholders, the challenges that insurers and reinsurers face in extending greater support and the steps needed to find a solution to ensure that the financial impacts of infectious disease outbreaks are better managed in the future.

Insurance and COVID-19

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has provoked a public health crisis without precedent in living memory. Part of the OECD's co-ordinated policy response across countries, this page groups insurance-related responses from the OECD that can help guide the actions of governments, supervisors and industry.

OECD to convene insurance industry, government and business leaders to debate how to address the pandemic risk protection gap

18/03/2021 - No infectious disease outbreak in at least 100 years has caused such broad and devastating impacts on the global economy as COVID-19. This has affected businesses across the world, revealing that many are not protected against pandemic risk.

OECD Insurance Statistics 2020

Statistiques de l'OCDE sur les assurances 2020

Governments need to address the gender gap in retirement savings arrangements

10/03/2021 - Towards Improved Retirement Savings Outcomes for Women analyses why the gender pension gap exists and outlines clear policy actions to ensure that the design of funded and private retirement savings arrangements will help to reduce the gender pension gap.

Towards Improved Retirement Savings Outcomes for Women

Long Term Care and Healthcare Insurance

Ageing is affecting many OECD countries and, as demographic change progresses, governments will be challenged to identify financially sustainable ways to support the care of ageing populations. The OECD’s Insurance and Private Pensions Committee launched a project on long-term care and health insurance in 2017. This page provides access to the reports published to date.

Seminar on Quality Infrastructure Investment

15-16 December 2020 - This event brought together policy makers, multilateral development banks, international organisations, and private sector stakeholders to discuss ways to promote and advance Quality Instructure Investment, including tools, guidelines, and policy actions to support implementation and financing.

Meeting on making ESG meaningful for insurers and pension funds

The OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee (IPPC) and the Working Party on Private Pensions (WPPP) are holding a joint meeting on 11 December 2020 to discuss potential next steps on their work on sustainable and ESG investment.