Assessing Default Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans, OECD Working Paper on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions No.2

This paper assesses the relative performance of different investment strategies for different structures of the payout phase.

Retirement income may become a “lottery” unless default strategies are carefully designed

Working Paper: "Assessing Default Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans". Future retirees can expect dramatic fluctuations in fortunes between members of a cohort unless they adopt investment strategies that reduce the impact of market shocks. Similar strategies should also become the default for individuals who make no active investment choice.

OECD-Bank of Italy Symposium on Financial Literacy: Improving Financial Education Efficiency

Discussions at this high-level event focused on financial literacy, behavioural economics and financial education and the importance of financial education in defined contribution pension schemes.

2010 Conference on Terrorism Risk Insurance: Proceedings

This document contains the proceedings from a Conference on Terrorism Risk Insurance held in Paris on 1-2 June 2010.

Conference on Terrorism Risk Insurance

Specialists in terrorism insurance and disaster management re-assessed the state of terrorism insurance markets, discussed promoting awareness of terrorism risks and reviewed the status of terrorism risk insurance programmes in different countries.

US Attorney General Eric H. Holder on efforts to fight international corruption

“For the global economy, corruption is dangerous,” he said at the OECD in Paris on 31 May. “The consequence is economic decay, not development. And that’s why corruption demands a truly global response – one that knows no limits on collaboration.”

Thinking beyond Basel III - Necessary solutions for capital and liquidity

In previous studies, the OECD has identified the main hallmarks of the crisis as too-big-to-fail institutions that took on too much risk, insolvency resulting from contagion and counterparty risk, the lack of regulatory and supervisory integration, and the lack of efficient resolution regimes. This article looks at how the Basel III proposals address these issues, helping to reduce the chance of another crisis like the current one.

Working Group meeting of the Asian Roundtable on Corporate Governance

This meeting focused on the preparation of a stock-taking report to review the corporate governance progress and remaining challenges in 13 Asian Economies since 2003 as well as a scoping paper to assess priorities for future Asian Roundtables.

5th meeting of the OECD Network on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Asia

This meeting focused on progress in implementing regional policy recommendations, an in-depth review of the country experiences of Malaysia and Korea and SOE-related issues of current relevance to the Asian region.

Identification of foreign investors: A fact finding survey of investment review procedures

This report presents the results of a fact finding survey on how governments seek to establish the identity of foreign investors, with a particular focus on transsectoral, security-related investment reviews. It was prepared for the OECD Freedom of Investment Roundtable to facilitate discussion of the issues by Roundtable participants.

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