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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124771
This paper provides an in-depth comparison of funded pension savings plans around the world. The large variety in plan designs is a reflection of historical, cultural and institutional diversity. We postulate a new classification of four role models of funded pension plans, primarily based on...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212329
We propose and implement a procedure to optimally hedge climate change risk. First, we construct climate risk indices … climate risk hedge portfolios. The new mimicking portfolio approach is much more efficient than traditional sorting or maximum … delivering markedly higher and statistically significant alphas and betas with the climate risk indices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232089
We propose and implement a procedure to optimally hedge climate change risk. First, we construct climate risk indices … climate risk hedge portfolios. The new mimicking portfolio approach is much more efficient than traditional sorting or maximum … delivering markedly higher and statistically significant alphas and betas with the climate risk indices. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014531337
investments and establishes whether the IOPS ‘Good Practices in the Risk Management of Alternative Investments by Pension Funds … which aims to manage the potential risk exposures that alternative investments and derivatives present. This provides a … reviewing current risk management practices observed by pension funds in managing these risk exposures. The paper finally …
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level of risk. The performance of pension funds is often measured by their global asset returns because of the latter … risk level given their social security (and not speculative) function. We describe the process of the global asset return … carried out to balance the asset composition when the established local degree of risk is exceeded. The application is carried …
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This paper examines the impact of specification uncertainty on the performance of international mean-variance conditional asset allocation. This notion is defined as the uncertainty faced by the investor regarding the specification choices necessary to implement a conditional strategy. To assess...
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portfolios that help mitigating climate change risk but at the same time enable harvesting well-established return drivers such …
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