OECD Working Paper Series on Insurance and Private Pensions

The working paper series on insurance and private pensions [www.oecd.org/daf/fin/wp] is designed to make available to a wide readership selected studies by the OECD Insurance and Private Pension Committee, OECD Financial Affairs Division staff, or by outside consultants working on OECD Insurance and Private Pension Committee projects.

The full series of OECD Working Papers on Insurance and Private Pensions is listed below in chronological order.  Click on the links to download the papers in PDF file format. The working papers, including descriptive abstracts, can also be accessed via the working paper category.

2008

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 Regulation 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: Sovereign Wealth and Pension Fund Issues

2007

WP13: Reforming the Valuation and Funding of Pension Promises: Are Occupational Pension Plans Safer?

WP12: 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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