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23-June-2009

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Pensions at a Glance 2009: Highlights for France

The over-65s rely more on public transfers for their income than almost anywhere else... Reforms of the French pension system have substantially cut future pension benefits for today’s workers: by around 20% for average earners...

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23-June-2009

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Media briefing - Pensions and the crisis

No country, and no pension scheme, is immune from the effects of the crisis. Private pension funds lost 23% of their value in 2008, worth a heady US$5.4 trillion. Economic output is falling and unemployment is rising, putting pressure on the finances of public pension schemes as well.

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23-June-2009

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Crisis highlights the need for sweeping pension reforms, says OECD

Governments must continue reforms to ensure that public and private retirement income provision is socially as well as financially sustainable, according to a new OECD report.

18-June-2009

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Private Pensions and Policy Responses to the Crisis

This report describes why occupational pensions play a major role in OECD countries and worldwide, complementing retirement income from state sources. Their financial importance is highlighted by the volume of assets they manage on behalf of plan members, USD 22 trillion at the end of 2008. Population ageing has also led many OECD countries to undertake a wide range of pension reforms – the overall effect of which has been to reduce

8-June-2009

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Investment Risk and Pensions: Impact on Individual Retirement Incomes and Government Budgets (Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 87)

This paper explores how uncertainty over investment returns affects individuals’ retirement incomes and government budgets. The paper uses the OECD pension models to explore the implications of a range of possible outcomes for investment returns.

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8-June-2009

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Investment Risk and Pensions: Measuring Uncertainty in Returns (Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 70)

This paper explores how uncertainty over investment returns affects pension systems. The scale of investment risk is measured in this paper using historical data on returns on equities and bonds in major OECD economies over the past quarter century.

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25-May-2009

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26-April-2009

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Latin America: 10th OECD-IAIS-ASSAL Conference on Insurance Regulation and Supervision

This conference focused on corporate governance of insurance companies, the role of financial intermediaries in financial education and annuities and pension.

21-April-2009

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Working Paper 35: Defined-Contribution (DC) arrangements in Anglo-Saxon countries

This paper provides a comparative analysis of defined contribution (DC) pension systems in Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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