Three issues related to (old age) poverty were the cause for a reflection on a retirement savings account (Vorsorgekonto) in the institutions of the German Pension Insurance: the prevention of poverty in case of disability or old-age, an adequate income at old age in spite of decisions by the...

Ten years after the Riester pension was introduced, two things become apparent: First, the pension gap, created by the reforms of 2001 and 2004, cannot be closed by Riester savings; second, the promised higher yields - compared to the traditional pension scheme - have not materialized. Eine...

In the course of the ongoing debate regarding the critique of the German Riester pension the Swedish premium pension has often been referred to as a role model regarding potential amendments and reforms. The Swedish pension reform of 1998 has led to a reorganization towards a stratified scheme,...

There is still much controversy concerning Riester pensions. A decade after the introduction of funded pensions, criticism has turned to product quality and the lack of basic information for consumers. The design and implementation of the Riester pension shows problems. The paper proposes...

A pesar de que el 97% de la poblacion en Mexico cuenta con al menos un punto de acceso al sistema financiero, solo el 38% tiene algun producto de ahorro o de cedito en instituciones financieras formales. Dichos resultados evidencian la falta de uso del sistema financiero formal y resaltan la...

In the last two decades Italy implemented a number of reforms of the public pay-as-you-go (PAYG) scheme that curtailed future pensions. Governments therefore felt the need to increase the number of workers contributing to fully funded (FF) schemes to offset the expected fall in public pensions....

The article presents an insight into the old age pension system in The Bahamas. There are four topic paragraphs: 1. the general information about country, 2. the evolution of its pension system, 3. the present situation, and 4. challenges and foreseen changes. There, the author’s goal was to...

Currently, in most countries, but particularly in European and in the more developed world, heated discussions about reforming the current pension system. To address adequately the taxation of pension incomes in our country is very important to know and how this issue is regulated in different...

Housing and pension wealth are shown to be important determinants of personal sector consumption and retirement behaviour in the UK. Housing and state pension wealth have a positive effect on consumption, while private pension wealth promotes greater savings. Greater private defined benefit...

In this paper, we analyze whether the state of the limit order book affects future price movements in line with what recent theoretical models predict. We do this in a linear vector autoregressive system which includes midquote return, trade direction and variables that are theoretically...