Pension System in Ireland

Original Amount of Old Age Pension as paid in 1909
  1. Three Necessary Actions Prior to Launch of Ireland’s Auto-Enrolment Retirement Saving Plan’. With Hally, Maeve. Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Vol. 52, Spring 2023, pp.114-129. [pdf, or from the publisher, pdf]
  2. An Analysis of the Taxation Supports for Private Pension Provision in Ireland.  With Hally, Maeve. The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 49, No. 3, Autumn 2018, pp. 319-359. [pdf, or from the publisher, pdf]
  3. Whelan, S. (2018) Chapter: Ireland.  In McClymont, G. & Tarrant, A. (Editors), Towards a new pension settlement: the international experience, Volume 2. Policy Network. [pdf]
  4. The Quantification of Investment Risk for Pension Funds.  Chapter 1 in Micocci, M, Gregoriou, G. & Masala, G. (Editors), Pension Fund Risk Management, Chapman Hall, (2010). [pdf]
  5. Pension Insecurity in Ireland. (with Michael Moloney). Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Vol. XXXVIII, (2008/2009), 75-104. [pdf, or from the publisher, pdf]
  6. Contribution to Discussion of 100 Years of State Pension: Learning from the Past by Tony Salter, Andrew Bryans, Colin Redman, & Martin Hewitt. Read to Sessional Meeting of Institute of Actuaries, Staple Inn, London, 26th January 2009. British Actuarial Journal, 15, 2, 304-306. [pdf]
  7. Valuing Ireland’s Pension System.  Quarterly Economic Commentary, Economic & Social Research Institute, Summer 2007, 55-80. [pdf, or from the publisher, pdf]
  8. Vote of Thanks to Hills, J. (2007), Demographic trends and the future of pensions in the UK
    Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, Vol.  XXXVI , pp. 186-191 (read before the Society on 19th April 2007, Belfast). [pdf, or from the publisher, pdf]
  9. Defining and Measuring Risk in Defined Benefit Pension Funds. Annals of Actuarial Science, Vol II, Prt 1, (2007) 54-66.  [pdf, or from the publisher, pdf]
  10. Pension Provision in Ireland for 21st Century. Report published by the Irish Association of Pension Funds, September 2005.
  11. Promises, Promises: Defined Pension Schemes in a Cynical Age. Irish Banking Review, Winter 2003, 48-62. [pdf]
  12. Evolution of the Asset Distribution of Irish Pension Funds, Irish Banking Review Summer 2002, 42-52. [pdf]
  13. Investing the National Pensions Reserve Fund, Irish Banking Review, Spring 2001, 31-47. [pdf]
  14. CPI: Impact on the Retired, Quarterly Economic Commentary, ESRI, Dec. 2000, 43-55. [pdf, or from the publisher, pdf]
  15. Prudent Pension Planning. A short book (43 pp) published in December 2002 by Hibernian Investment Managers. [pdf]
  16. Irish Pension Funds: Size, Growth and Composition of Assets. Report published by the Irish Association of Pension Funds, 2000. [pdf]
  17. Investing the National Pensions Reserve Fund. Report published by the Irish Association of Pension Funds, 2000.
  18. CPI: Impact on the Retired.  Report published by the Irish Association of Pension Funds, 2000.