In April of 2013, the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania convened a Technical Review Panel, comprising ten experts whose task it was to review the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) Pension Insurance Modeling System (PIMS), including...

Wie in vielen anderen Ländern auch, beruhen die deutschen Beamtenpensionen traditionell auf einem umlage- und steuerfinanzierten System der Leistungszusage (defined benefit pension - DB). Aufgrund fehlender Rücklagen resultieren aus den Pensionsverspechen ungedeckte Verbindlichkeiten in...

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