Moreover, the pensions regulator is pressing companies to produce plans for closing pension-fund gaps over the next ten years.

ECONOMIST: Company pension funds are being saved from destruction

The state's pension fund has been under something like normal financial management and is now accumulating cash for the first time in ten years.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Once a pension has made the decision to invest in a venture fund, it typically is locked in for an average of ten years.

FORBES: Pensions Funds: Funding Unsavory Practices of Venture Capitalists (May 1, 2000)