Opening a private pension in a country you are not a citizen of?

EmployeeAnon

Is it possible to open a private pension in a different country to that I am a resident of? 

Also which country has the lowest private pension age?

Brie

I think this will depend on the regulations for that country.  I know that as a Canadian citizen resident in the UK I am not allowed to have certain investments and retirement accounts in Canada.  Whether I would have been allowed to keep an account I had opened while resident there when I moved to the UK is unclear.  

As for which countries have the lowest age - I think that also might depend on what industry you work.  Just as the UK has raised the pension age from 50 to 55 and soon to be 57 I believe they also equalised some of the industry pension ages a while back.  As I recall certain physical professions like sports (so jockeys and footballers) used to have a very low age, something like 35 or similar.  Based on the fact that they would normally not be working in that field once they get that old. 

Bostonerimus1

Things like tax deferral make cross border pension payments problematic, even if a country allowed it. Actually I think the UK allows you to pay in small amounts to an existing SIPP for a few years after you leave the UK. The UK has a well developed DC pension landscape so use that and when you include ISAs it's really hard to see a better place for the average person to invest money

NickBFS

What are you trying to achieve? A private pension is essentially an investment vehicle with certain tax advantages to it, either on inputs or outputs. 
As regards inputs, even if the country in question gives a tax credit or some other form of tax advantage on contributions, you will still be liable to tax in your country of residence anyway so whatever tax advantage the destination country gives on inputs will be lost and irrelevant for you.

As regards outputs, you will need to consider the whole package of taxation + tax advantages on pension income. Some countries have very low taxation on various types of investment income even where the investment is outside any retirement tax wrapper, which may be fiscally more advantageous than some of the tax advantages given on investments in tax wrappers in some other countries.
Also, some countries give substantial tax advantages to new residents, which may beat any tax advantage there may be inside a retirement investment taxwrapper.