The ratio of pension assets to GDP in Denmark is the highest among OECD countries. Danish pension funds invest more than half of the country's pension wealth in foreign assets, giving rise to exchange rate risks that are managed using financial instruments. We study the currency hedging...

This paper shows optimal asset allocation during these two phases must be different.

... Mit der Richtlinie werden die Voraussetzungen für grenzüberschreitende Aktivitäten von Pensionsfonds und ähnlichen Einrichtungen geschaffen. Das grenzüberschreitende Leistungsangebot wird zur Mitte des Jahrzehnts erstmals möglich werden ...

Retirement systems are extremely complex social, economic, legal, and organisational structures. The authors of retirement systems are faced with a great number of dilemmas. The pension related expenditure has systematically been increasing in the developed world, also as a percentage of GDP,...

Die betriebliche Altersversorgung ist neben der gesetzlichen und der privaten Altersvorsorge eine der drei Säulen der Alterssicherung in Deutschland. Ende 2012 beliefen sich die Deckungsmittel der betrieblichen Altersversorgung in Deutschland auf 500,7 Milliarden Euro. Im Zeitraum 2009 bis...

Explaining the growth of funded pension systems is a major project in political economy. Drawing on the financialization and growth models literatures, this is a case study of recent pension fund growth in the Netherlands. Newly digitized data show almost continuous net fund inflows since their...

While macroprudential policy has mostly focused on the role of banks, we argue that pension funds are also important for financial stability. Drawing on previous research on pension funds, we explain how their actions can have a vital impact on other financial institutions as well as on...

Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007 - 2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension market...

Due to the 2008 global financial crisis the position of the private equity sector has weakened. The number and the value of new transactions have dropped together with the volume of the raised funds. Credit shares have also decreased in the financing of the transactions. Exiting from the...