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OECD Recommendation on Disaster Risk Financing Strategies

Adopted by the OECD Council on 23 February 2017, this Recommendation provides high-level policy guidance for designing a strategy for addressing the financial impacts of disasters on individuals, businesses and sub-national levels of governments, as well as the implication for public finances.

More private capital for infrastructure investment in Asia?

Since the financial crisis, infrastructure investment has moved up the political agenda in most countries – now also including the USA. Asia is often seen as the world’s infrastructure laboratory, with massive construction of transport and energy projects. This article discusses infrastructure investment, private finance, and institutional investors in Asia from a global perspective.

Disaster risk financing

Disasters present a broad range of human, social, financial, economic and environmental impacts, with potentially long-lasting, multi-generational effects. The financial management of these impacts is a key challenge for individuals and governments in developed and developing countries. The OECD supports the development of strategies for the financial management of natural and man-made disaster risks.

Annuity products

The OECD is working on improving the understanding of the problems facing annuity markets by focusing more closely on the nature of the guarantees provided by annuity products and their costs for insurance companies and consumers.

The evolution of insurer portfolio investment strategies for long-term investing

This article provides an overview of the evolving investment strategies of insurers and identifies the opportunities and constraints they may face with respect to long-term investment activity. It investigates the extent to which changes in macroeconomic conditions, market developments and insurance regulation may affect the role of insurers in long-term investment financing.

Retirement savings adequacy

This project investigated whether people are saving enough for retirement and examining the role that private pensions can play in the retirement readiness of the working age population.

Life Annuity Products and Their Guarantees

Launch of the 2016 Pensions Outlook

Good morning everyone. It is a pleasure for me to be here today to launch the 2016 OECD Pensions Outlook. I’m glad to see great friends and experts on one of the defining issues of our era. Good to see Phyllis Borzi and Ambrogio Rinaldi with us today.

L’architecture des régimes privés de retraite par capitalisation doit être améliorée

De plus en plus, des dispositifs de retraite dont les prestations sont adossées à des actifs viennent compléter le revenu servi à la retraite par des entités publiques, dans les pays de l’OCDE et dans le monde entier, notamment là où existe un lien direct entre cotisations, actifs et prestations.