G20 ministers welcome OECD disaster risk assessment and financing framework

G20 Finance Ministers have welcomed a new OECD/G20 framework designed to help governments develop financial strategies for disaster risk management.

2012 OECD/IOPS Global Forum on Private Pensions

The 2012 global forum focused on the pension industry in Latin America, the cost and coverage of pension systems, long-term investing and infrastructure, designing default options and financial education and pensions communication.

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The 2012 global forum will focus on the pension industry in Latin America, the cost and coverage of pension systems, long-term investing and infrastructure, designing default options and financial education and pensions communication.

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High-level seminar on capital flow management and liberalisation: the role of international co-operation

This seminar aimed to advance shared understandings on policies to make the most of cross-border capital flows in support of growth and development and on the value of international co-operation, including the OECD Codes of Liberalisation, in the current context of serious global financial turbulence.

The Role of Institutional Investors in Financing Clean Energy, OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No.23

Given the current low interest rate environment and weak economic growth prospects in many OECD countries, institutional investors are increasingly looking for real asset classes which can deliver steady, preferably inflation-linked, income streams with low correlations to the returns of other investments. Clean energy projects may combine these sought-after characteristics.

Defining and Measuring Green Investments: Implications for Institutional Investors‟ Asset Allocations, OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No.24

This definitional, stocktaking paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the concepts and definitions related to „green‟ investments that are currently used in the market place.

G20/OECD Policy Note on Pension Fund Financing for Green Infrastructure and Initiatives

Prepared for the G20 Los Cabos Summit, this policy note discusses the potential for and the barriers to pension funds investing in green infrastructure projects.

La Suède a besoin d’une commission indépendante pour superviser les fonds de pension nationaux

La Suède devrait mettre en place une commission indépendante d’experts pour superviser ses fonds de pension nationaux et fixer aux investissements un objectif financier clair et mesurable afin de garantir leur viabilité à long terme, selon une nouvelle étude de l’OCDE.

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• Pensions: Sweden needs an independent committee to oversee National Pension Funds

L’impact des modifications du deuxième pilier du système de retraite sur les finances publiques en Europe centrale et orientale

Cette étude analyse l’impact des changements récents apportés au deuxième pilier du système de retraite dans trois pays d’Europe centrale et orientale sur le déficit budgétaire et la dette implicite du système de retraite.

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• The impact of changes in second pension pillars on public finances in Central and Eastern Europe

Des réformes urgentes sont nécessaires pour pérenniser les systèmes de pension en Asie, estime l’OCDE

Il faut moderniser d’urgence les systèmes de pension en Asie pour faire face au vieillissement rapide de la population des deux prochaines décennies et assurer aux travailleurs d’aujourd’hui des prestations de retraite qui soient pérennes et suffisantes à l'avenir, selon l’OCDE.

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• Urgent reform key to securing Asia’s pension systems, says OECD