23-September-2010
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Protecting retirement income derived from DC pension plans requires carefully designed default investment strategies. This article assesses the relative performance of different investment strategies for different structures of the payout phase, focusing on life-cycle strategies.
22-July-2010
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This paper discusses the impact of the crisis on defined benefit (DB) pension schemes and the temporary responses taken by regulators to help ease financially strained plan sponsors. It presents suggestions to governments and policy makers for making funding regulations more counter-cyclical in nature. Such measures could strengthen the security of DB benefits and help to maintain DB plans for future workers.
7-June-2010
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This paper assesses the relative performance of different investment strategies for different structures of the payout phase.
29-March-2010
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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
18-February-2010
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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,
28-janvier-2010
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Les Principes de l’OICP relatifs au contrôle des pensions privées entendent couvrir les plans de retraite individuels et professionnels, ainsi que les fonds de pension.
28-janvier-2010
Français, , 178kb
Les principes directeurs sont destinés à guider les autorités de réglementation, de contrôle et autres autorités impliquées dans la conception, l'administration et la gestion de plans de pension.
1-December-2009
English
Solange Berstein talks about what other countries can learn from Chile's pensions reforms of the past 12 months.
24-octobre-2009
Français
Cette base de données fournie un accès gratuit aux statistiques fréquemment démandés sur les pensions.