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26-Oct-2009
Pension funds staged a partial recovery in the first half of 2009, generating investment returns of 3.5% in nominal terms. But, as of 30 June 2009, total pension funds assets still remained 14% below their December 2007 levels, according to the latest edition of OECD Pensions Markets in Focus.
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23-Oct-2009
The OECD has today published the results of the 2008 Survey of Investment Regulation of Pension Funds.
The document describes quantitative investment regulations on pension funds in OECD and selected non-OECD countries as of end December 2008. The information collected concerns all forms of quantitative portfolio restrictions (minima and maxima) applied to autonomous pension funds in OECD countries at different legal levels (law, regulation, industry norms, etc).
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19-Oct-2009
The OECD and the World Bank today announced the preliminary results of their project evaluating the financial performance of pension funds around the world.
The project aims to examine how to measure financial performance of pension funds taking into account the link between participants’ benefits to the performance of financial markets.
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07-Jul-2009
Financial services firms must make sure their customers understand what they are letting themselves in for when they sign up for mortgages, consumer loans and other products, under new OECD guidelines designed to avoid a repeat of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and ensuing credit crunch that sent the world economy into recession.
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Events
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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 15-Dec-2009 to 16-Dec-2009
Taking place in Rio de Janeiro, this conference seeks to advance and elevate the dialogue on financial education in the international arena, particularly in Latin America. This event is co-organised by the OECD and the Brazilian government, with sponsorship from the Japanese government.
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from 24-Sep-2009 to 25-Sep-2009
The 2nd Conference organised under the auspices of the OECD International Network on the Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes (“OECD Network”) is scheduled to take place in Bangkok, Thailand, on 24-25 September, 2009. This international event will be hosted by the Office of Insurance Commission (OIC) of Thailand, with the sponsorship of the Government of Japan.
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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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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 30-Oct-2008 to 31-Oct-2008
The OECD/IOPS Global Forum addressed a wide range of issues of high relevance to national policy debate on retirement savings in both developed and emerging economies. Special attention was devoted to developments in the pension industry on the African continent.
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from 07-May-2008 to 08-May-2008
Co-hosted by the OECD and the US Treasury, this conference aimed to advance and elevate the dialogue on financial education in the international arena, share experiences on best practices and look at applied research.
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from 14-Nov-2007 to 15-Nov-2007
Organised in Beijing, China, the OECD/IOPS Global Forum on Private Pensions covered a wide range of topics which are of importance to both countries that either have mature and developed funded pension systems and countries that have only recently undertaken pension reforms, therefore seeking to modify their existing un-sustainable retirement security arrangements. The issues are also of relevance for the current developments in the Chinese pension system.
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on 02-Jul-2007
This OECD seminar brought together the heads of the pension protection funds of Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the USA and the UK for the first time to debate the role that pension protection schemes can play in protecting our retirement income, how they can operate on an economically efficient basis and how they can protect themselves from moral hazard and excessive claims.
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on 06-May-2007
The world's population is ageing, and it's forcing us to make some tough choices about how we pay for our collective old age. Monika Queisser, OECD Senior Economist, was invited by Barry Thorne, to take part into the debate of the ageing population-themed edition of Amsterdam Forum (Copyright: www.radionetherlands.nl)
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