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News & Events
News
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24-Nov-2010
In this interview, Prof Zheng, a renowned Chinese expert on pensions, discusses the necessary reforms – in particular tax reforms – that are needed in order to further develop private pensions in China.
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25-Oct-2010
The third OECD Sovereign Borrowing Outlook finds that OECD governments are facing ongoing challenges in the markets for government securities as a result of continued strong borrowing activity amid concerns about the pace of recovery and sovereign risk.
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23-Sep-2010
Protecting retirement income derived from DC pension plans requires carefully designed default investment strategies. This article assesses the relative performance of different investment strategies for different structures of the payout phase, focusing on life-cycle strategies.
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10-Sep-2010
Withdrawal of policy stimulus and sovereign risk were singled out as the two biggest concerns for investors at the 11th OECD-WBG-IMF Global Bond Market Forum. This article summarises the discussions and addresses the challenges of measuring sovereign risk, the need for more reliable indicators of sovereign risk and how sovereign issuers have been forced to modify their borrowing strategies.
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10-Sep-2010
The various existing methods for calculating short-term borrowing requirements can result in distorted estimates. This article proposes a new method that yields economically meaningful results that can also be used to make cross-country comparisons.
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06-Sep-2010
International Accounting Standard No. 19 (IAS 19) is the current standard for the financial reporting of company pension obligations that stem from defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Following publication of proposed changes to IAS 19, the OECD has made comments on the IASB's exposure draft.
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13-Aug-2010
This working paper summarises the recently completed EU stress test for banks and, using new data on bank exposures to sovereign debt, appraises the way the tests have treated the sovereign debt crisis. It comments on market concerns about banking sector exposure to sovereign debt during and beyond the period of the stress test.
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22-Jul-2010
This working paper discusses the impact of the crisis on defined benefit (DB) pension schemes and proposes suggestions for making funding regulations more counter-cyclical in nature. Such measures could strengthen the security of DB benefits and help to maintain DB plans for future workers.
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16-Jul-2010
Government-guaranteed bank bonds have been an effective tool in avoiding the worst during the financial crisis. However, the pricing of the guarantees has created competitive distortions and the continued availability of such guarantees into 2010 may have reduced the pressure on some banks to address their weaknesses.
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13-Jul-2010
While pension funds have strengthened with the financial market rebound, OECD data show that pension fund assets in most countries have yet to recover to pre-crisis levels. Public pension reserve funds, however, have now fully made up for their crisis-related losses due to more conservative investment strategies, according to the July 2010 edition of Pension Markets in Focus.
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Events
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from 26-Nov-2009 to 27-Nov-2009
The 4th OECD Forum on African Public Debt Management was held on 26-27 November 2009. Discussions included the formulation and implementation of debt management strategy in a changing borowing environment and operational risk management.
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from 25-Nov-2009 to 26-Nov-2009
This Global Forum was held on 25-26 November 2009 at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris. It provided an overview of the highlights of the impact of the global financial crisis on funding needs and borrowing strategies in different regions; the new policy challenges with a focus on Asian debt managers, and on the urgent policy changes in the new borrowing landscape.
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from 14-Oct-2009 to 15-Oct-2009
The Global Forum examined reform progress and recent pension fund industry developments in Brazil and the Latin American region, focusing on the main challenges facing defined contribution, privately-managed individual pension schemes.
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from 24-Sep-2009 to 25-Sep-2009
Organised in Thailand, this conference focused on the threats of global warming,
natural hazard awareness and disaster risk reduction education, hazard mapping, risk assessment, insurance coverage of natural catastrophe risks, catastrophe-linked securities and the role of capital markets in promoting the growth of global capacity to absorb natural catastrophe risks.
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from 26-Apr-2009 to 30-Mar-2009
This conference will concentrate on the following issues on which the OECD has developed substantial policy work and expertise over the last years: corporate governance of insurance companies, the role of financial intermediaries in financial education and annuities and pension.
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from 24-Jun-2009 to 26-Jun-2009
The Third OECD Regional Workshop on African Debt Management and Bond Markets was held on 24-26 June 2009. The workshop provided another opportunity to African countries to discuss and debate practical market-infrastructure issues which are of major concern for debt managers in the African debt markets.
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from 02-Mar-2009 to 03-Mar-2009
The 10th Tokyo Roundtable focused on the impact of the global financial crisis on Asia and the Asian response, as well as the implications of current market turmoil on stock and bond markets and unregulated entities; products and markets; financial education and awareness; regulatory efficiency and corporate governance.
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on 12-Nov-2008
Representatives from OECD governments, academia and private sector discussed proposals to support private pension systems, and in particular, improve the management of risks in the retirement stage of individual account (defined contribution, DC) pension systems. Participants also discussed the impact of the financial crisis, and longer term issues affecting the sector such as increasing life expectancy.
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from 04-Dec-2008 to 05-Sep-2008
This year the forum discussions focused on an exchange of information on ongoing activities regarding African Public Debt Management and Bond Markets, it took place in Paris, and was organised back-to-back with the 18th OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management.
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from 03-Dec-2008 to 04-Dec-2008
Held in Paris back-to-back with the forum on African Public Debt Management, discussions focused on sovereign asset liability management, the use of short-term government paper and regional roundtables on challenges and opportunities for issuers in view of the credit/liquidity crisis.
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