- Hardcover: 360 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (13 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0199266913
- ISBN-13: 978-0199266913
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.7 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,287,072 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book, the first in a new series produced by the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School in collaboration with Oxford University Press, explores ways to enhance retirement security in a volatile financial environment. Mitchell and Smetters begin by assessing the myriad retirement risks confronting employees, retirees, employers, and governments, and it shows how stakeholders can work to reinvent pensions that perform well in a competitive global setting. Contributors then indicate how pension systems can be better designed to help protect against these risks. Of special interest is a discussion of new financial products and structures to meet and manage challenges to old-age security. Examples considered include pension investment guarantees and hedges, adapting catastrophe bonds to the pension context, and key regulatory structures and portfolio requirements designed to protect unwary or unwitting pension participants. The contributors draw important lessons for a wide range of countries, drawing from both developed and developing market experiences. Contributors include world-famous finance experts and risk management faculty, development economists, pension regulators, and pension consultants.
About the Author
Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, and Director of the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and also a research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her academic research explores private and public insurance, risk management, public finance and labour markets, and compensation and pensions, with a US and an international focus.
Previously she taught at Cornell University, visited Harvard University and the University of New South Wales, served on the Us Department of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council, and served as a Board Member for Alexander and Alexander services, Inc. She recently served on President Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Previously she taught at Cornell University, visited Harvard University and the University of New South Wales, served on the Us Department of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council, and served as a Board Member for Alexander and Alexander services, Inc. She recently served on President Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Note for the poor
8 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
A lot of the technical detail in this book can be obtained for free from the working papers on the Wharton School Pension Reasearch Council web site - http://prc.wharton.upenn/prc
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The Pension Challenge
7 May 2004
Format:Hardcover
The publication of this book is timely insofar as it explores ways of enhancing retirement security in the volatile financial environment many employees find themselves in. It is the first in a new series produced by the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with Oxford University Press.
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The Pension Challenge
7 May 2004
Format:Hardcover
On the global side, there is a chapter on money-back guarantees in individual pension accounts, featuring Germany. There are also chapters on retirement guarantees in compulsory defined contribution systems and in voluntary defined contribution plans, with the latter covering:
-Belgium,
-Brazil,
-Denmark,
-Germany,
-Japan,
-New Zealand
-Sweden,
-the UK, and
-the USA.
-Belgium,
-Brazil,
-Denmark,
-Germany,
-Japan,
-New Zealand
-Sweden,
-the UK, and
-the USA.
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