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No. 41 | 01 Feb 2010 |
Policy Action in Private Occupational Pensions in Japan since the Economic Crisis of the 1990s
The public pension system of Japan provides coverage for all, irrespective of occupation and income. Corporate pension plans provide additional benefits over the public pension in order to meet the diversified financial needs in retirement and play a... |
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No. 40 | 01 Feb 2010 |
Pension Funds' Risk-Management Framework
Drawing on the experience of the pensions and other financial sectors, this paper examines what sort of risk-management framework pension funds should have in place. Such frameworks are broken down into four main categories: management oversight and... |
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No. 38 | 01 Mar 2010 |
Managing Investment Risk in Defined Benefit Pension Funds
This paper inquires into the forces that drive the practice of risk management at defined benefit (DB) pension funds in Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States in the aftermath of the perfect pension storm. First, pension funds‘... |
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No. 37 | 01 Jul 2009 |
Investment Regulations and Defined Contribution Pensions
This paper assesses the impact of different quantitative approaches to regulate investment risk on the retirement income stemming from defined contribution (DC) pension plans. It looks at how such regulations affect the spectrum of investment... |
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No. 36 | 01 Apr 2009 |
Private Pensions and Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis
This paper discusses responses to current financial and economic crisis by regulators, supervisors and policy makers in the area of private pensions. These responses are examined in the light of international guidelines, best practices and... |
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No. 35 | 01 Mar 2009 |
Defined-Contribution (DC) Arrangements in Anglo-Saxon Countries
This paper provides a comparative analysis of defined contribution (DC) pension systems in Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. There are considerable similarities in the systems which have evolved out of employer sponsored... |
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No. 34 | 01 Mar 2009 |
Evaluating the Design of Private Pension Plans
The principal purpose of this paper is to analyse the trade-off between the uncertainty in contributions on the one hand and benefits on the other that is embedded in different pension arrangements. The paper employs the funding ratio (ratio of... |
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No. 33 | 01 Jan 2009 |
Licensing Regulation and the Supervisory Structure of Private Pensions
China currently has a highly diversified structure of pension regulation and supervision. In this paper we first review the legal framework of private pension fund regulation and supervision in other economies, including Australia, Chile, Hong Kong... |
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No. 32 | 01 Jan 2009 |
Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure
As the need for investment in infrastructure continues to grow, private sector financing for infrastructure projects has developed around the world. Given the long-term growth and (potentially) low correlation aspects of infrastructure investments,... |
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No. 31 | 01 Jan 2009 |
Pension Coverage and Informal Sector Workers
Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing countries – a... |
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No. 30 | 01 Jan 2009 |
Pensions in Africa
This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries. The paper was designed as an overview/background document to provide... |
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No. 29 | 01 Dec 2008 |
Ageing and the Payout Phase of Pensions, Annuities and Financial Markets
This paper reviews the impact of ageing on private pensions, in particular on the payout phase, assesses the part that annuities can play in financing retirement, and examines the role of financial markets in facilitating the allocation on assets... |
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No. 27 | 01 Sept 2008 |
Fees in Individual Account Pension Systems
This paper focuses on the fees that are charged to participants in mandatory, defined contribution pension systems, focusing on the experience of Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Australia, and Sweden. In order to compare fees across... |
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No. 26 | 01 Sept 2008 |
Forms of Benefit Payment at Retirement
This paper focuses on describing the international practice on the various forms of retirement benefit payment currently allowed in countries throughout the world and the regulatory environment surrounding these different forms of benefit payment.... |
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No. 25 | 01 Sept 2008 |
Policy Options for the Payout Phase
This paper assesses how countries‘ pension arrangements and regulation shape the appropriate structure and flexibility of retirement payout options. The paper aims at providing a guide to policy makers on how to address the diverse questions posed... |
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No. 24 | 01 Sept 2008 |
National Annuity Markets
This paper describes a number of national annuity markets, the types of products typically available, the demand for these products, the value for money on offer and the dynamics of the supply side. It explores supply and demand characteristics,... |
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No. 23 | 01 Aug 2008 |
Accounting for Defined Benefit Plans
Defined benefit pension plans can entail one of the biggest liabilities that an exchange-listed company has on its balance-sheet. There exist comprehensive requirements for the reporting of such liabilities. This paper examines the impact that... |
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No. 22 | 01 Sept 2008 |
Description of Private Pension Systems
The role of private pensions in the provision of retirement income has grown significantly in the past two decades, reflecting efforts by many countries to trim down unsustainable pay-as-you-go benefits. The role of private provision of retirement... |
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No. 21 | 01 Sept 2008 |
Comparing Aggregate Investment Returns in Privately Managed Pension Funds
This report presents an initial assessment of the financial performance of privately managed pension funds, both mandatory and voluntary, in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as selected OECD countries. It provides a comparative... |
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No. 20 | 01 Aug 2008 |
Pension Fund Performance
This report provides an analysis of aggregate investment performance by country on a risk adjusted basis using relatively standard investment performance measures. The report also describes privately managed pension funds around the world and the... |
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Policy Action in Private Occupational Pensions in Japan since the Economic Crisis of the 1990s
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan and Junichi Sakamoto
01 Feb 2010
The public pension system of Japan provides coverage for all, irrespective of occupation and income. Corporate pension plans provide additional benefits over the public pension in order to meet the diversified financial needs in retirement and play a...
Pension Funds' Risk-Management Framework
Fiona Stewart
01 Feb 2010
Drawing on the experience of the pensions and other financial sectors, this paper examines what sort of risk-management framework pension funds should have in place. Such frameworks are broken down into four main categories: management oversight and...
Managing Investment Risk in Defined Benefit Pension Funds
Dorothee Franzen
01 Mar 2010
This paper inquires into the forces that drive the practice of risk management at defined benefit (DB) pension funds in Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States in the aftermath of the perfect pension storm. First, pension funds‘...
Investment Regulations and Defined Contribution Pensions
Pablo Antolín, Sandra Blome, David Karim, Stéphanie Payet, Gerhard Scheuenstuhl and Juan Yermo
01 Jul 2009
This paper assesses the impact of different quantitative approaches to regulate investment risk on the retirement income stemming from defined contribution (DC) pension plans. It looks at how such regulations affect the spectrum of investment...
Private Pensions and Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis
Pablo Antolín and Fiona Stewart
01 Apr 2009
This paper discusses responses to current financial and economic crisis by regulators, supervisors and policy makers in the area of private pensions. These responses are examined in the light of international guidelines, best practices and...
Defined-Contribution (DC) Arrangements in Anglo-Saxon Countries
John Ashcroft
01 Mar 2009
This paper provides a comparative analysis of defined contribution (DC) pension systems in Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. There are considerable similarities in the systems which have evolved out of employer sponsored...
Evaluating the Design of Private Pension Plans
Hans J. Blommestein, Pascal Janssen, Niels Kortleve and Juan Yermo
01 Mar 2009
The principal purpose of this paper is to analyse the trade-off between the uncertainty in contributions on the one hand and benefits on the other that is embedded in different pension arrangements. The paper employs the funding ratio (ratio of...
Licensing Regulation and the Supervisory Structure of Private Pensions
Yu-Wei Hu and Fiona Stewart
01 Jan 2009
China currently has a highly diversified structure of pension regulation and supervision. In this paper we first review the legal framework of private pension fund regulation and supervision in other economies, including Australia, Chile, Hong Kong...
Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure
Georg Inderst
01 Jan 2009
As the need for investment in infrastructure continues to grow, private sector financing for infrastructure projects has developed around the world. Given the long-term growth and (potentially) low correlation aspects of infrastructure investments,...
Pension Coverage and Informal Sector Workers
Yu-Wei Hu and Fiona Stewart
01 Jan 2009
Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing countries – a...
Pensions in Africa
Fiona Stewart and Juan Yermo
01 Jan 2009
This paper discusses why the development of pension systems is important for the African region. It also looks at the current pension arrangements in selected African countries. The paper was designed as an overview/background document to provide...
Ageing and the Payout Phase of Pensions, Annuities and Financial Markets
Pablo Antolín
01 Dec 2008
This paper reviews the impact of ageing on private pensions, in particular on the payout phase, assesses the part that annuities can play in financing retirement, and examines the role of financial markets in facilitating the allocation on assets...
Fees in Individual Account Pension Systems
Waldo Tapia and Juan Yermo
01 Sept 2008
This paper focuses on the fees that are charged to participants in mandatory, defined contribution pension systems, focusing on the experience of Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Australia, and Sweden. In order to compare fees across...
Forms of Benefit Payment at Retirement
Pablo Antolín, Colin Pugh and Fiona Stewart
01 Sept 2008
This paper focuses on describing the international practice on the various forms of retirement benefit payment currently allowed in countries throughout the world and the regulatory environment surrounding these different forms of benefit payment....
Policy Options for the Payout Phase
Pablo Antolín
01 Sept 2008
This paper assesses how countries‘ pension arrangements and regulation shape the appropriate structure and flexibility of retirement payout options. The paper aims at providing a guide to policy makers on how to address the diverse questions posed...
National Annuity Markets
Rob Rusconi
01 Sept 2008
This paper describes a number of national annuity markets, the types of products typically available, the demand for these products, the value for money on offer and the dynamics of the supply side. It explores supply and demand characteristics,...
Accounting for Defined Benefit Plans
Clara Severinson
01 Aug 2008
Defined benefit pension plans can entail one of the biggest liabilities that an exchange-listed company has on its balance-sheet. There exist comprehensive requirements for the reporting of such liabilities. This paper examines the impact that...
Description of Private Pension Systems
Waldo Tapia
01 Sept 2008
The role of private pensions in the provision of retirement income has grown significantly in the past two decades, reflecting efforts by many countries to trim down unsustainable pay-as-you-go benefits. The role of private provision of retirement...
Comparing Aggregate Investment Returns in Privately Managed Pension Funds
Waldo Tapia
01 Sept 2008
This report presents an initial assessment of the financial performance of privately managed pension funds, both mandatory and voluntary, in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as selected OECD countries. It provides a comparative...
Pension Fund Performance
Pablo Antolín
01 Aug 2008
This report provides an analysis of aggregate investment performance by country on a risk adjusted basis using relatively standard investment performance measures. The report also describes privately managed pension funds around the world and the...