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The Consequences of Population Aging on Private Pension Fund Saving and Asset Markets
Schieber, Sylvester J. - 1994
This paper examines the impact of the aging demographic structure of the U.S. on its funded private pension system. A 75-year outlook is produced for the pension system corresponding to the 75-year forecast of the Social Security system. The primary result is that the pension system will cease...
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Do Older Adults Accurately Forecast Their Social Security Benefits?
Seiter, Grant M.; Slavov, Sita N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How accurate are older people's expectations about their future Social Security benefits? Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, we compare respondents' observed Social Security claiming ages and benefits with subjective expectations provided during their 50s and early 60s. We...
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The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows
Poterba, James - 2007
Demographic change can have an important effect on the stock of assets held in defined benefit pension plans. This paper projects the impact of changes in the age structure of the U.S. population between 2005 and 2040 on the stock of assets held by these plans. It projects the contributions to...
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Annuities for an Ageing World
Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2002
Substantial research attention has been devoted to the pension accumulation process, whereby employees and those advising them work to accumulate funds for retirement. Until recently, less analysis has been devoted to the pension decumulation process -- the process by which retirees finance...
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Pension Funding and Saving
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 1985
This paper suggests that the nature of the funding of defined benefit pension plans may be an important reason why personal saving has not responded positively to the high real interest rites and tax incentives to encourage saving and investment of the last few years. From a firm's standpoint,...
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Pension Funding, Share Prices, and National Saving
Feldstein, Martin - 1980
This paper examines empirically the effect of unfunded pension obligations on corporate share prices and discusses the implications of these estimates for national saving, the decline of the stock market in recent years, and the rationality of corporate financial behavior. The analysis uses the...
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Impact of Defaults in Retirement Saving Plans : Public Employee Plans
Clark, Robert L. - 2019
This study examines the impact of the adoption automatic enrollment provisions by the state of South Dakota for its supplemental retirement saving plan (SRP). In South Dakota, state and local government employees, including teachers, are also covered by a defined benefit pension plan and by...
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Life-cycle Investing and Leverage : Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
Ayres, Ian - 2008
This paper is no longer available on-line from the NBER. A revised version of the paper has been published as "Diversification Across Time" in the Journal of Portfolio Management 39 (Winter 2013), pp.73-86
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Defined Contribution Pensions : Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance
Choi, James J. - 2001
We assess the impact on savings behavior of several different 401(k) plan features, including automatic enrollment … education. We also present new survey evidence on individual savings adequacy. Many of our conclusions are based on an analysis … of micro-level administrative data on the 401(k) savings behavior of employees in several large corporations that …
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Individual Financial Decisions in Retirement Saving Plans and The Provision of Resources for Retirement
Poterba, James M. - 1996
Proposals for mandatory private saving accounts differ in the degree of investment discretion that they provide to individual savers, and in their provisions for annuitization of accumulated assets. With respect to investment choices, some argue that individuals must be prevented from investing...
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