Publications & Documents


  • 7-June-2010

    English

    OECD-Bank of Italy Symposium on Financial Literacy: Improving Financial Education Efficiency

    Discussions at this high-level event focused on financial literacy, behavioural economics and financial education and the importance of financial education in defined contribution pension schemes.

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  • 7-June-2010

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    Retirement income may become a “lottery” unless default strategies are carefully designed

    Working Paper: "Assessing Default Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans". Future retirees can expect dramatic fluctuations in fortunes between members of a cohort unless they adopt investment strategies that reduce the impact of market shocks. Similar strategies should also become the default for individuals who make no active investment choice.

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  • 1-June-2010

    English, Excel, 1,806kb

    2010 Conference on Terrorism Risk Insurance: Proceedings

    This document contains the proceedings from a Conference on Terrorism Risk Insurance held in Paris on 1-2 June 2010.

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  • 1-June-2010

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    Conference on Terrorism Risk Insurance

    Specialists in terrorism insurance and disaster management re-assessed the state of terrorism insurance markets, discussed promoting awareness of terrorism risks and reviewed the status of terrorism risk insurance programmes in different countries.

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  • 29-March-2010

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    Working Paper 38: 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’ risk management is grounded in the context of the development of modern risk management in the financial industry more general. Second, focusing solely on single-employer sponsored DB

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  • 24-March-2010

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    Framework for the development of financial literacy baseline surveys - OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No.1

    This working paper provides draft good practice guidelines for the design of national financial literacy surveys and proposes guidelines for the design of a core set of good practice questions for embedding within any national surveys aimed at measuring financial literacy levels.

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  • 24-March-2010

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    Working Paper 41: 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 key role in enriching people’s life after retirement.The majority of corporate pensions in Japan are defined-benefit type. Consequently, a great amount of attention is paid to benefit

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  • 22-March-2010

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    RBI-OECD Workshop on Delivering Financial Literacy: Challenges, Approaches and Instruments

    Building on the OECD's internationally recognised standards in the area of financial education, participants in this event shared best practices and experiences in the fields of financial education and literacy. As a result, they were better equipped to address their national and regional challenges in these policy areas.The workshop was co-hosted by the Reserve Bank of India and the OECD and was sponsored by the Government of Japan.

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  • 15-March-2010

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    Greece - Moving ahead to address the challenges

    In his remarks to the Central Bank of Greece, Mr. Gurría offered the OECD support, expertise, and policy experience to help Greece modernise its economy and put it on a path of sustained growth.

  • 18-February-2010

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    Working Paper 40: Pension Funds’ Risk-management Framework: Regulation and Supervisory Oversight

    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 culture; strategy and risk assessment; control systems; and information and reporting. Ways in which supervisory authorities can check that such systems are operating are also considered,

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