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13 October 2026 5 min read PensionHunter Research Team

Where is the pension from my old employer in another country?

Start with two facts: what your old employer is called today, and where that country keeps its official records of workplace pension funds. Each of our employer pages answers both for one employer in one country, at an address of the form /employers/country/employer. A page gives the name an official register holds now, the country's register of occupational pension funds or the fact that it has none, and the official route from abroad, each with its source and the date we read it. We publish a page only when it passes our publish gate, and 2335 pages pass it in the register read of 15 October 2026.

What does an employer page show?

Each page answers one question in its heading, in the words people use: I worked for this employer in this country, where is my pension? The answer comes first, in three sourced sentences:

  • what the employer is called today, read from the Global LEI Index (GLEIF) or a national register;
  • whether the country has an official register of occupational pension funds, and which one;
  • the official route for someone who now lives abroad, from our pension portals directory.

Below the answer, a short set of questions is about the employer itself: its identifier, the facts its register record holds, such as its legal form, its local register number, the entities that report it as their parent and the date the register last updated it, and whether we hold a verified mapping to a pension scheme. Every sentence on the page names its source and the date we read it.

For example, our page for Credit Suisse in Switzerland opens with: "Credit Suisse is now registered as CREDIT SUISSE AG. CREDIT SUISSE AG merged into UBS AG." The source given is GLEIF, Global LEI Index, read 14 October 2026. Read it at /employers/switzerland/credit-suisse.

We checked the Credit Suisse record in the register itself on 13 October 2026. GLEIF lists CREDIT SUISSE AG under LEI ANGGYXNX0JLX3X63JN86 as inactive, with UBS AG, LEI BFM8T61CT2L1QCEMIK50, as its successor (Source: GLEIF, read 13 October 2026).

Which employer pages are live?

These are the pages that passed the gate in the register read of 15 October 2026, by country. Each line opens that country's list on our employer pages hub:

Each country page also links to the employer pages for that country.

What is the publish gate?

A page exists only when all three checks pass.

  1. The register finds the employer. The exact name must give one match, renamed, merged or still registered under the same name, and that match must be registered in the page's country. A name with no match, with several matches, or with its only match in another country gets no page.
  2. The country has a route. We must hold an official route from abroad for that country.
  3. Every sentence is sourced. Each factual sentence must carry its source and the date we read it, and every sentence must pass our copy rules.

Many of the employers we try do not pass yet. Some names have no exact match in the register, or more than one, and some pages would repeat too much of another page in the same country because the register holds few facts of their own. We would rather publish fewer pages than a page that guesses.

Does the page name my pension scheme?

Not unless we have verified it. A page names a scheme or an administrator only from a mapping we have verified, with its source and the date read. Where we hold no such mapping, the page says so in plain words and names no scheme and no administrator.

That matters because a current company name is a fact about the company, not about your pension. The scheme that was open while you worked there may not be the one the company runs now, and where a former employee's record sits today differs from case to case. Naming the scheme and who holds the record now is the work in our reports.

What if my employer has no page?

Our connector can do the first step for any employer name. Its resolve_employer tool reads the country from the name and says what the employer is called now, with the register and the date read. Our connector page shows how to add it to an AI assistant. Our free pension checker takes a whole working history and says which countries are likely to hold something.

Frequently asked questions

How often are the employer pages updated? When we read the registers again. Each page shows the date of the read behind every sentence, and the pages listed here come from the read of 15 October 2026.

Why is my employer missing when it clearly existed? Usually because the register held no exact match for the name we tried, or found several. The gate stops a page rather than guess which company is meant.

Does a page mean I was a member of a scheme? No. A page is about the employer and the country. It says nothing about any individual.

Is this financial advice? No. We identify and research. We give no financial advice and take no percentage of anyone's pension.

Sources

The employer pages listed above, each sentence with its own source and read date.

GLEIF, Global LEI Index, records ANGGYXNX0JLX3X63JN86 and BFM8T61CT2L1QCEMIK50, read 13 October 2026.

Try the alternative first

AI can tell you what a pension is. It cannot tell you that you have one. It is genuinely good at explaining how a rule works, and if that is all you needed, you have saved yourself a fee.

Then ask it which scheme holds your money and who administers it today, and ask it for the source and the date it checked. Why that is where it ends

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. PensionHunter is a research and administrative assistance service and is not regulated by the FCA or any equivalent financial regulator. If you require financial advice about your pension please consult a qualified independent financial adviser.

We list who holds pension records in each country we cover in our pension administrator directory.

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