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Aging Population, Pension Funds, and Financial Markets : Regional Perspectives and Global Challenges for Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe

Autor: Holzmann, Robert.
Año: 2009
Resumen: Population aging is a worldwide phenomenon, but it is particularly advanced in highly developed northern countries. The retirement of the baby-boom generation in these rich countries will impose additional, albeit temporary, pressure on their pension systems. To cope with this pressure, reforms have been introduced that have lessened the generosity of publicly provided pension benefits. By design and by implication, this change increases the importance of mandatory and voluntary funded retirement schemes in smoothing consumption across the life cycle. The first three chapters of this book investigate questions germane to pension systems in the Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe (CESE) economies: the extent to which pension systems were prepared to deal with multi pillar pension reform, how to foster the development of financial systems so that they can better support funded systems, and how ready the systems are for the approaching payout of benefits as the first participants in the funded pillar approach retirement age. The remaining three chapters investigate broader questions facing pension systems in both developed and emerging countries: the capacity of the financial markets to deliver sufficiently high net rates of return, the benefits and disadvantages of investment in emerging markets, and the effect of aging on the rates of return afforded by funded and unfunded schemes.

Fuente: Banco Mundial
Clasificación: Demografía
Tipo de Publicación: Libros
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Pension Coverage and Informal Sector Workers: International Experiences

Autor: Hu, Yu-Wei; Stewart, Fiona
Año: 2009
Resumen: 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 serious problem given this group are often low income earners, vulnerable to economic volatility and change. However, since the turn of the millennium, efforts in a range of countries have increasingly highlighted improving pension coverage for informal sector workers. This paper provides an overview of selected country experience in this regard, and provides some suggestions for governments in developing countries considering implementing their own pension reform to ensure that informal sector workers receive the retirement income they need.

Fuente: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE)
Clasificación: Mercado Laboral
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Pensions in Africa

Autor: Stewart, Fiona; Yermo, Juan
Año: 2009
Resumen: 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 context and assist discussion at the OECD/IOPS Global Forum on Private Pensions, which was held in Mombasa, Kenya on the 30th/ 31st October, 2008. The OECD and IOPS acknowledge the leadership of other organisations in terms of development and African specific issues – notably the World Bank, International Labor Organisation (ILO) and IMF

Fuente: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE)
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Licensing Regulation and the Supervisory Structure of Private Pensions International Experience and Implications for China

Autor: Hu, Yu-Wei; Stewart, Fiona
Año: 2009
Resumen: 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 China, Poland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Then, based on international practices and experiences identified, and taking into account China‘s unique situation, we examine potential ways to improve the current private pension regulatory and supervisory structure in the country.

Fuente: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE)
Clasificación: Seguridad Social y Sistemas de Pensiones
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure

Autor: Inderst, Georg
Año: 2009
Resumen: 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 funds have also shown interest in increasing their exposure to this area, along with their move into alternative assets. Such investments cover a wide spectrum of projects – from economic infrastructure such as transport, to social projects such as hospitals – and involve different forms of financing (primary vs. secondary, debt vs. equity, private vs. listed, direct vs. indirect). Data explaining the size, risk, return and correlations of this diverse asset class is therefore limited, which may be making pension fund investors cautious. Given investing in such assets also involves new types of investment vehicles and risk for pension funds to manage – such as exposure to leverage, legal and ownership issues, environmental risks as well as regulatory and political challenges – such caution may well be justified. However, if governments wish to help infrastructure developers tap into potentially important sources of financing such as pension funds, certain steps can be taken. This paper is designed as an overview piece, discussing if pension funds should invest in infrastructure on a theoretical basis, whether they do in practice, and, if not, how (and if) regulators can encourage and assist them to do so.

Fuente: Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE)
Clasificación: Fondos de Inversión
Tipo de Publicación: Documentos de Trabajo
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