Abstract
Through the agency theory lens, we study if and how big data analytics and technological tools can improve pension fund governance to allow trustees to use available information more effectively. We discuss how big data analytics and technological tools could help reduce information asymmetries and improve decision-making by giving trustees better insight into assessing their pension funds' governance, administration, and investment plans. Further, this can improve governance by reducing information asymmetry arising from the agent-principal relationship and allowing trustees to be better monitors and achieve greater transparency, improving the funds' administration. In the context of the lack of research on using big data analytics and other tools in dealing with information asymmetries, which agency theory assumes that trustees should be doing, we explore the impact of technological tools on the double agency relationship in pension fund governance.