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The stock market collapse led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of the property rights over the pension funds’ wealth. The problem is best resolved by the introduction of generational accounts. Modern consumption and portfolio theory shows that the younger...
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As Ontario pushes ahead with pension reform to improve retirement security for its citizens, it should consider a “middle-way” solution between current competing visions for reform, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe institute. In “Helping Ontarians Save for Retirement:...
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rates and expense ratios, and we estimate this could lead to aggregate savings for these participants over a 20-year period …
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supplementary savings needed to cover it. The issue of pension system income adequacy is first discussed, and the forecasted and … defined and the size of the gap is analyzed. The amount of savings needed to cover the pension gap is then computed. How … changes in the values of particular parameters influence the amount of monthly savings needed to cover the individual pension …
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The aim of this article is to evaluate the effectiveness of voluntary pension savings plans in Poland, based on the …
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Medium- and long-run dynamics undermine the effect of automatic enrollment and default savings-rate auto-escalation on … retirement savings. Our analysis of nine 401(k) plans incorporates the facts that employees frequently leave firms (often before …
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Poland's new Employee Capital Plans (PPK) scheme, which is mandatory for employers, started to be implemented in July 2019. The article looks at the systemic solutions applied in the programme from the perspective of the concept of the simultaneous reconstruction of the retirement pension...
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Private pension plans have been growing in importance in recent years as pension reforms all over the world have reduced public pension entitlements. The aim of the research study was to analyze the payments from private pension schemes in OECD countries. On the basis of studies it was found...
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This article describes the open private pension plans offered in Brazil, which is one of the four pillars of the Brazilian retirement system. A framework is created to describe and analyze the impact of the transaction costs and tax advantages one can obtain from these financial products. This...
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relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in pension savings amongst non-retired adults aged 18 … where the focus is on pension savings and a more structural specification where the focus is on the "pension return" (the … ratio of pension savings to cumulative earnings). Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis suggests that around 8.5 per cent of …
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