OECD Seminar on Annuities and Pensions

This seminar focused on designing defined-contribution (DC) pension plans, linking the accumulation and payout phases, designing the payout phase of pension systems and annuities and longevity risk.

Statistiques d'assurance de l'OCDE

Lancé en 1982, le projet sur les statistiques d'assurance de l'OCDE a pour vocation de fournir un outil important de mesure et de surveillance de l'industrie des assurances et de permettre des comparaisons inter-pays de statistiques et d'indicateurs sur les aspects clés de la couverture des risques des particuliers et des entreprises parmi les pays de l'OCDE.

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• OECD Insurance Statistics

OECD and South Africa create a centre for sovereign debt management

OECD and the South African government have created a centre to encourage co-operation among African debt managers and to support the development of sound practices in public debt and cash management.

OECD-FCAC Conference on Financial Literacy: Partnering to Turn Financial Literacy into Action

This conference focused on how we can help individuals improve their financial knowledge and the way they manage their personal finances.

L’OCDE et l’Afrique du Sud créent le premier centre africain pour la gestion de la dette souveraine

L’OCDE et l’Afrique du Sud vont ouvrir un centre destiné à aider les gouvernements africains à gérer leur dette publique et les marchés d’obligations à Midrand, en Afrique du Sud.

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• OECD and South Africa to set up first African sovereign debt management centre

12th OECD-World Bank Group-IMF Global Bond Market Forum

Discussions at the forum focused on latest developments in global bond markets, including the impact of the financial crisis on market functioning and debt levels and other emerging issues.

Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans: International Evidence, OECD Working Paper on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No.8

This paper gathers evidence on public sector pension plans regarding the type of pension promise and quantifies the future tax burden related to these pension promises. The reported liabilities are recalculated using both a fair value approach (local market discount rates) and a common, fixed discount rate across all countries which reflects projected growth in national income.

Catastrophe Financing for Governments: Learning from the 2009-2012 MultiCat Program in Mexico, OECD Working Paper on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No.9

This paper proposes a framework to help policymakers think about how best develop a national strategy to hedge against the massive economic burden of extreme events that could hit their country tomorrow, focusing specifically on the role that risk transfer mechanisms alternative to traditional insurance can play.

OECD High Level Financial Roundtable: Fostering long‐term investment and economic growth

Discussions at this conference focused on how financial reforms should provide a better, sustainable balance between stability and growth and how measures to strengthen the savings-investment channel should foster sustainable growth and development.

Assessing the Labour, Financial and Demographic Risks to Retirement Income from Defined-Contribution Pensions

This article examines the impact of labour, financial and demographic risks on retirement income from DC pension plans, with a special emphasis on labour-market risk.