Czechoslovak old-age pensions were heavily earnings-related. The 1996 reform confirmed the trend to the flat-rate pensions. The Executive Team for the preparation of the reform (2005) analysed the reform concepts of individual political parties, mainly by the modelling of expenditures and receipts, not by their systemic analysis. They blew away the NDC scheme, recommended by the World Bank to us, with inappropriate parameters. Later the lobbyists' Expert Advisory Forum (2010) concentrated on the support of „diversification“, aiming at the introduction of mandatory pension savings. Under the influence of different political and economic interests the Government decided for the „voluntary“ opt-out + add-on, its successful realization was made impossible basically by the very existence of, in a sort of way, a strong supplementary pension insurance and by not permitting the use of life insurance sales model in the new „retirement savings“ scheme. Today no political party struggles for a paradigm pension reform, unsystematic partial parametric changes are practised only. The main pension expert of the Trade Unions Chamber and of the Czech Social Democratic Party has favoured a neo-liberal soft-compulsion type of personal pensions.