This paper discusses the key sources of vulnerabilities for pension plans and insurance companies in light of the … towards retirement from excessive market volatility; 4) the need to strengthen group supervision for large complex financial … institutions including insurance and pensions; and 5) the need to revisit the resolution and crisis management framework for …

The Chinese pension system is highly fragmented and decentralized, with governance standards, pension fund management … practices, their regulation and supervision varying considerably both across the funded components of the Chinese pension system … identifies remaining weaknesses, in regard to information disclosure, the governance framework and pension fund management …

The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper … heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in … retirement. …

This paper focuses on the nexus between pension funds' balance sheet liabilities, reflecting their age profile and … regulatory framework and the highly fragmented and heterogeneous pension fund landscape in Switzerland. Detailed data from the … Swiss Pension Statistic are analyzed using multivariate OLS-regressions. The evidence shows that a younger age structure and …

This paper focuses on the investment behavior of pension funds in developed and emerging market countries. First, it … analyzes the main determinants of the emerging market asset allocation of pension funds in developed countries. Second, it … assesses how pension funds in emerging markets have contributed to the development of local securities markets. Third, it …

India's planned pension reform will set up a proper regulatory framework for the pension industry and open up the … the reserves of private sector provident funds to the new pension fund managers. …

solvency of their defined-benefit pension plans. Will this lead to higher contributions? Will higher contributions increase … pension fund regulation? This paper develops a theoretical model to address these questions. Although its scope is more … general, the model captures the main institutional features of the pension system in the Netherlands, a country where the …