Most countries have separate pension plan for public sector employees. The future fiscal burden of these plans can be substantial as the government usually is the largest employer, pension promises in the public sector tend to be relatively generous, and future payments have to be paid out...

Chile was the first country to introduce structural pension reform based upon a funded pillar. Implemented in 1981, Chilean pension reform inspired many other Latin American countries. During the nineties, an important literature analysed the positive and negative aspects of pension funds in...

Az utóbbi időben élénk szakmai vita alakult ki a tőkefedezeti nyugdíjrendszerrel kapcsolatban. Ezek során még a második pillér megszüntetése is felvetődött. Ezért fontosnak tartjuk a tőkefedezeti rendszer alapkérdéseinek újragondolását. A tőkefedezeti nyugdíjpillér...

We document a new investor bias we call the homeboy bias. Whereas the home bias is a preference for domestic or local assets, the homeboy bias is a preference for domestic fund managers. Using the choices of mutual funds for retirement accounts of the Swedish population, and after controlling...

This paper shows that it is possible for a defined benefit pension plan following an immunized fixed income strategy to have lower long-term funding costs than a pension plan following an equity-based investment strategy. This may be possible even if stocks outperform bonds over the relevant...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's disclosure philosophy has largely focused on a single model: the publicly held corporation. From its inception, the SEC's disclosure framework for mutual funds has been a relative backwater and based largely on the disclosure framework for publicly held...