OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions

 

OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions provide timely analysis and background on industry developments, structural issues, and public policy in the financial sector. Topics include risk management, governance, investments, benefit protection, and financial education. These studies are prepared for dissemination in order to stimulate wider discussion and further analysis and obtain feedback from interested audiences.

 

The full series can be searched in chronological order or by theme. Prior to March 2010, the series was named OECD Working Papers on Insurance and Private Pensions. The working papers can also be accessed via the working paper category. Permanent URL for this page: www.oecd.org/daf/fin/wp.

 

2011

WP13: Pension Funds Investment in Infrastructure: Policy Actions

WP12: Designing Optimal Risk Mitigation and Risk Transfer Mechanisms to Improve the Management of Earthquake Risk in Chile

WP11: The Role of Guarantees in Defined Contribution Pensions

WP10: The Role of Pension Funds in Financing Green Growth Initiatives

WP9: Catastrophe Financing for Governments

WP8: Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence 

WP7: Reform on Pension Fund Governance and Management: The 1998 Reform of Korea National Pension Fund

2010

WP6: Options to Improve the Governance and Investment of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund

WP5: The New IAS 19 Exposure Draft

WP4: The EU Stress Test and Sovereign Debt Exposures

WP3: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Defined Benefit Plans and the Need for Counter-Cyclical Funding Regulations

WP2: Assessing Default Investment Strategies in Defined Contribution Pension Plans

WP1: Framework for the development of financial literacy baseline surveys: A first international comparative analysis 

 

OECD Working Papers on Insurance and Private Pensions

WP41: Policy Action in Private Occupational Pensions in Japan since the Economic Crisis of the 1990s

WP40: Pension Funds’ Risk-management Framework: Regulation and Supervisory Oversight

WP38: Managing investment risk in defined benefit pension funds

2009

WP37:Investment Regulations and Defined Contribution Pensions

WP36: Private Pensions and Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis (see also: main messages)

WP35: Defined-Contribution (DC) Arrangements in Anglo-Saxon Countries

WP34: Evaluating the Design of Private Pension Plans: Costs and Benefits of Risk-Sharing

WP33: Licensing Regulation and the Supervisory Structure of Private Pensions: International Experience and Implications for China

WP32: Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure

WP31: Pension Coverage and Informal Sector Workers: International Experiences

WP30: Pensions in Africa

2008

WP29: Ageing and the Payout Phase of Pensions, Annuities and Financial Markets

WP27: Fees in Individual Account Pension Systems: A Cross-Country Comparison

WP26: Forms of Benefit Payment at Retirement

WP25: Policy Options for the Payout Phase

WP24: National Annuity Markets: Features and Implications

WP23: Accounting for Defined Benefit Plans: An International Comparison of Exchange-Listed Companies

WP22: Description of Private Pension Systems

WP21: Comparing Aggregate Investment Returns in Privately Managed Pension Funds: an initial assessment

WP20: Pension Fund Performance

WP19: Coverage of Funded Pension Plans

WP18: Pension Fund Governance: Challenges and Potential Solutions

WP17: Funding Regulations and Risk Sharing

WP16: Evaluating the Impact of Risk Based Funding Requirements on Pension Funds

WP15: Governance and Investment of Public Pension Reserve Funds in Selected OECD Countries

WP14: Reforming the Valuation and Funding of Pension Promises: Are Occupational Pension Plans Safer?

2007

WP13: Pension Fund Investment in Hedge Funds

WP11: Implications of Behavioural Economics for Mandatory Individual Account Pension Systems

WP10: Portfolio Investment in an Intertemporal Setting: Assessment of the Literature and Policy Implications for latin American Pension Systems

WP9: Collective Pension Funds: International Evidence and Implications for China's Enterprise Annuities Reform

WP8: Pension Fund Regulation and Risk Management

WP7: Survey of Investment Choice by Pension Fund Members

WP6: Benefit Protection: Priority Creditor Rights for Pension Funds

WP5: Benefit Security Pension Fund Guarantee Schemes

WP4: Governments and the Market for Longevity-Indexed Bonds

WP3: Longevity Risk and Private Pensions

WP2: Policy Issues for Developing Annuities Markets

2006

WP1: Funding Rules and Actuarial Methods

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