This paper contains nine different essays on Social Security reform and multi-pillar pension plans. The nine topics are: 1. Transition costs2. Progressive indexation3. Government guarantees on private accounts4. Life cycle investing5. Impact of add-on accounts on Social Security solvency6....

This research is aimed at developing a methodology for assessing the efficacy of a macroeconomic model of the Kazakhstani pension provision system. A hierarchy of indicators of the pension system efficacy is built using the graph method. The representativeness of these indicators is confirmed by...

We seek to analyze a number of important issues related to the ownership of government pensions, and the switch from pay-as-you-go defined-benefit pensions to fully-funded defined-contribution pensions. Social Security will still need to find ways to cover its unfunded liabilities to past and...