General Electric Co. is freezing pension benefits for about 20,000 U.S. employees in a move that could help trim $5 billion to $8 billion from the company’s pension shortfall. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Brooke Sutherland has the details on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas." Her opinions are her own.

Nigeria launched the micro pension plan late last month as the government aims to extend pension services to the informal sector. Niyi Falade, CEO of Crusader Sterling Pensions joins CNBC Africa to discuss the prospect of Nigeria’s micro-pension scheme.

Nigeria’s pension’s regulator PENCOM introduced the multi-fund structure in its new investment guideline earlier this month in a bid to align the age and risk profiles of pension contributors.

Examining the challenges facing pension schemes.

Reps to summon minister over unpaid pension.

The governor of Veracruz on Mexico's eastern coast is allegedly on the run after being accused of corruption and having links to organised crime.

DG of PENCOM, Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, talks on development, innovation and the influence of pension funds in creating an enabling environment for the unleashing of entrepreneurial spirit.

Olusegun Obasanjo enacted a law to decentralise and privatise pension administration in 2004, thereby constituting the National Pensions Commission as the regulatory authority to oversee activities of pension fund.