Explores issues in financing retirement, from fundamental changes in types of pension plans offered to pension funds' investment strategies following the global financial crisis. Focuses in particular on the adequacy of individuals' and institutions' plans in the face of increasing life...

"Examining growth of complex securitized structures in U.S. and world markets, provides a timeline of key events, proposing explanations for the resulting financial crisis. Offers suggestions on securitization reform, including a solution to insure the mortgage market against default risk....

It has been four years since the financial crisis of 2008, and the global financial system still is experiencing malaise caused by high rates of unemployment; a lingering, unresolved supply of foreclosed properties; the deepening European debt crisis; and fear of a recurrence of the bank turmoil...