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OECD work on financial markets aims to promote efficient, open, stable and sound market-oriented financial systems, based on high levels of transparency, confidence, and integrity. It also monitors and surveys structural changes and reform measures in insurance and private pensions. Permanent url: www.oecd.org/daf/fin
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02-Feb-2010
The Spanish government announced on Friday 29th of January, its intention of postponing the retirement age from 65 to 67 and to increase the number of contribution years used to calculate pension benefits. The OECD believes that these measures are important steps in the right direction. (Leer en espanol)
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02-Feb-2010
El gobierno español anunció el viernes pasado su intención de elevar la edad oficial de jubilación de 65 a 67 años, y de aumentar el numero de años necesario para calcular la pensión. La OCDE considera muy positivas dichas medidas.
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25-Jan-2010
U.S. President Barack Obama’s plans for financial reform could help to avoid a new financial crisis by resolving some major risks inherent to the current financial system, according to OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría.
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08-Jan-2010
A fundamental reassessment of banks’ business models is needed to properly address contagion risk and counterparty failure that have been the main hallmarks of the current crisis. This is ‘the elephant in the room’ that most policy makers and bankers are trying to ignore. The issue of ‘too big to fail’ is less an issue of size and more a question of what banks actually do. The paper explains why a firewalled non-operating holding company structure is an essential complement to the imposition of leverage ratio if contagion and counterparty risk are to be contained in financial conglomerates.
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08-Dec-2009
The Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (JPEF), the only academic journal focusing on the economics and finance of pensions and retirement income programs, announces a new editorial structure and a broadening of its mission effective January 2010. Since 2002, the JPEF has provided an invaluable and influential forum for original research and international policy debate in the pensions area.
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03-Dec-2009
The OECD has established a set of key principles to guide financial policy makers as they look to fundamental reform that will achieve strong, resilient financial systems that play their part in driving economic growth.
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23-Jun-2009
This report describes why occupational pensions play a major role in OECD countries and worldwide, complementing retirement income from state sources. Their financial importance is highlighted by the volume of assets they manage on behalf of plan members, USD 22 trillion at the end of 2008. Population ageing has also led many OECD countries to undertake a wide range of pension reforms – the overall effect of which has been to reduce public pension promises and in turn to increase the importance of private pension savings for retirement.
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19-Nov-2009
This article provides an overview of the guarantees that have been expanded and/or introduced as part of the policy packages implemented in response to the recent financial crisis and discusses the costs and benefits of this expansion, as well as issues related to the exit from “unusual” types or levels of guarantees.
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27-Oct-2009
This article discusses vulnerabilities in selected segments of the insurance sector and identifies specific issues related to the role of the insurance sector in the current financial crisis.
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26-Oct-2009
Pension funds staged a partial recovery in the first half of 2009, generating investment returns of 3.5% in nominal terms. But, as of 30 June 2009, total pension funds assets still remained 14% below their December 2007 levels, according to the latest edition of OECD Pensions Markets in Focus.
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19-Oct-2009
The OECD and the World Bank today announced the preliminary results of their project evaluating the financial performance of pension funds around the world.
The project aims to examine how to measure financial performance of pension funds taking into account the link between participants’ benefits to the performance of financial markets.
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17-Sep-2009
The financial crisis required governments to make massive interventions in their financial systems. This book sets out priorities for reforming incentives in financial markets as well as for phasing out these emergency measures.
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02-Sep-2009
Demographic trends challenge the financial sustainability of pay-as-you-go pension and healthcare systems, as well as capital-funded systems and risk undermining access and quality. Published by the World Economic Forum, with the support of the OECD and Mercer, this report highlights options to better cater for changing retirement and healthcare expectations.
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27-Jan-2010
This edition focuses on exit and post-financial crisis issues in financial markets, the surge in borrowing needs of OECD governments, changes in OECD primary market procedures and portfolio risk management and effective and financial systems and regulation in emerging markets.
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