of scientific, peer-reviewed articles that examine the consumer buying behavior towards investment in life insurance …, mutual funds and Unit-Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs). The research articles were obtained following a literature search on …

We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using … ratio of pension assets (in funded and private pension and life insurance arrangements) to GDP, suggesting that preferred … increases. These effects extend beyond long government bonds. Our results suggest that pension discount rules can have a …