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Working Paper 29: Ageing and the Payout Phase of Pensions, Annuities and Financial Markets

06-Jan-2009

This paper reviews the impact of ageing on private pensions, in particular on the payout phase, assesses the part that annuities can play in financing retirement, and examines the role of financial markets in facilitating the allocation on assets accumulated in defined contribution pension plans

Working Paper 27: Fees in Individual Account Pension Systems: A Cross-Country Comparison

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14-Oct-2008

This paper focuses on the fees that are charged to participants in mandatory, defined contribution pension systems, focusing on the experience of Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Australia, and Sweden.

Working Paper 22: Description of Private Pension Systems

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30-Sep-2008

This report seeks to develop a comparative study on the regulation of private pension systems across a range of countries, with a particular focus on the major systems in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as selected high income OECD countries.

Working Paper 21: Comparing aggregate investment returns in Privately Managed Pension Funds: an initial assessment

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30-Sep-2008

This report presents an initial assessment of the financial performance of privately managed pension funds, both mandatory and voluntary, in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as selected OECD countries.

Working Paper 26: Forms of Benefit Payment at Retirement

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30-Sep-2008

This paper focuses on describing the international practice on the various forms of retirement benefit payment currently allowed in countries throughout the world and the regulatory environment surrounding these different forms of benefit payment.

Working Paper 25: Policy options for the payout phase

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30-Sep-2008

This paper assesses how countries’ pension arrangements and regulation shape the appropriate structure and flexibility of retirement payout options.

Working Paper 23: Accounting for Defined Benefit Plans: An International Comparison of Exchange-Listed Companies

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08-Sep-2008

Defined benefit pension plans can entail one of the biggest liabilities that an exchange-listed company has on its balance-sheet. There exist comprehensive requirements for the reporting of such liabilities.

Working Paper 24: National Annuity Markets: Features and Implications

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02-Sep-2008

This paper describes a number of national annuity markets, the types of products typically available, the demand for these products, the value for money on offer and the dynamics of the supply side.

Working Paper 20: Pension Fund Performance

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29-Aug-2008

This report provides an analysis of aggregate investment performance by country on a risk adjusted basis using relatively standard investment performance measures.

Working Paper 19: Coverage of Funded Pension Plans

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11-Aug-2008

This paper presents comparable and standardised data on coverage in voluntary funded pension plans for several OECD countries using household survey data by age, income level, and labour market status for occupational and personal pension plans.

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