Investment guarantees and political risk insurance - Institutions, incentives and development

Institutional features and policy practices of investment guarantee programmes - institutional features of the public and private segments of the political risk insurance market - issues of potential relevance for the investment policy community. Typically, international investment projects for which such insurance is sought are located in developing countries. In recent years, the value of investment guarantees has averaged about

Pensions at a Glance: Asia/Pacific - 2009 Edition

The report analyses the retirement income systems of 18 Asian countries, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam. It says that reform is needed ....

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Many of Asia's retirement-income systems are ill prepared for the rapid population ageing that will occur over the next two decades.

Les pays asiatiques doivent réformer leurs systèmes de pension, estime l’OCDE

De nombreux pays asiatiques devront réformer leurs systèmes de pension pour assurer aux travailleurs d’aujourd’hui des revenus pérennes et suffisants au moment de la retraite : telle est la conclusion d’un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.

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

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

Financial Crisis: Deposit Insurance and Related Financial Safety Net Aspects

Whenever a crisis hits, interest in guarantee arrangements rises. This paper focuses on how parts of the financial safety net are combined, with a special emphasis on deposit insurance and its interaction with other safety net elements. It addresses structural rather practical crisis resolution issues, as well as reviewing recent policy actions in this context.

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Filling the Pension Gap: Coverage and Value of Voluntary Retirement Savings (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 69)

The current generation of workers can expect lower pension benefits in retirement than the current generation of pensioners. Private, voluntary pension savings will therefore play a greater role in providing for old age. This paper calculates the size of the “pension gap”.

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Questionnaire de l'AICA et de l'OCDE sur la gouvernance des assureurs

L'AICA et l'OCDE ont diffusé un questionnaire conjoint sur le gouvernement d’entreprise des sociétés d’assurance. L’objectif de ce questionnaire était de réunir des informations sur les pratiques de gouvernance en vigueur chez les assureurs, ainsi que des points de vue sur ce que pourraient être des pratiques exemplaires dans ce domaine.

OECD/IOPS Global Forum on Private Pensions: Mombasa, Kenya, 30-31 October 2008

The Global Forum addressed a wide range of issues of high relevance to national policy debate on retirement savings in both developed and emerging economies.

OECD-IEFP Symposium on Financial Education

The OECD- IFEP Symposium on Financial Education: Financial education: a possible response to the financial crisis goals are to - Highlight the importance of financial education at a global scale as one of the long-term possible response to the current financial crisis - Share experiences and international good practices including OECD instruments on financial education - Reinforce the awareness of the public and policy makers,