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News & Events
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30-Sep-2011
The Working Paper “The Role of Guarantees in Defined Contribution Pensions ” argues that, while there is a clear need to better protect retirement income from financial market volatility, the costs and benefits of investment return guarantees should be carefully evaluated. Investment return guarantees offer protection from adverse investment performance but can be costly.
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31-Aug-2011
OECD work on financial sector guarantees has intensified since the 2008 global financial crisis as most policy responses for achieving and maintaining financial stability have consisted of providing new or extended guarantees for the liabilities of financial institutions.
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29-Aug-2011
This publication reports on initiatives to promote natural hazard awareness and disaster risk reduction education, the role of financial markets in financial mitigation of large-scale risks, mechanisms used to quantify catastrophe losses, and hazard risk mapping efforts in Southeast Asian countries.
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12-Aug-2011
This report examines the interplay between banking competition and financial stability, taking into account the experiences of the recent global crisis and the policy response to date.
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03-Feb-2012
In-depth analysis from the OECD addresses the financial market dimension of sovereign debt challenges to assist policymakers in designing, adopting, and implementing appropriate policies.
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05-Aug-2011
This statistical yearbook provides comprehensive and consistent information on African central government debt instruments. It includes individual country data but also comparative statistics to facilitate pan-African (cross-country) analysis.
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25-Jul-2011
Pension fund asset levels in most countries continued to show strong growth throughout 2010, returning almost to pre-crisis levels, according to a new OECD report. Both economic and financial indicators showed signs of further recovery but the outlook for future economic growth in developed economies remains uncertain and sluggish.
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05-Jul-2011
The OECD and the government of South Africa opened the first African Debt Management and Bond Market Development Centre on 30 June 2011.
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Events
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on 05-Sep-2011
A robust mechanism for monitoring and evaluating financial education programmes is an important component of their effective design and implementation. The OECD is developing high-level principles for the evaluation of financial education programmes.
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on 05-Sep-2011
Governments have long-recognised that financial education should start at school and that people should be educated about financial matters as early as possible in their lives. The OECD is developing draft guidelines on financial education at school and accompanying guidance on learning framework.
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on 18-Oct-2011
G20 finance ministers meeting in Paris have agreed new principles on financial consumer protection developed by the OECD. The principles form part of a broader initiative by G20 leaders to strengthen trust and confidence in the financial sector, which is widely recognised to have fallen since the economic crisis.
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from 23-Jun-2011 to 24-Jun-2011
This invitation-only event aimed at helping Chile to revisit its national strategy on the financial management of catastrophes in light of other OECD countries' experience. Beyond Chile, discussions were of relevance to many other participating countries exposed to catastrophic risks.
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from 26-Jan-2012 to 27-Jan-2012
Co-organised by the OECD and the OIC Thailand, discussions at this seminar focused on enhancing transparency and monitoring of insurance markets with a particular focus on the Asian region.
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from 27-Oct-2011 to 28-Oct-2011
Organised by the OECD and the Financial Services Board of South Africa, this Conference on Financial Education for All will bring together experts from around the world to share their experiences of designing and establishing effective financial education initiatives to support and protect consumers.
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on 09-Jun-2011
Organised in Mexico City as part of OECD's 50 year anniversary celebrations, this roundtable assessed the role of insurance and private pension systems in fostering economic growth, including infrastructure development, innovation, and green growth.
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on 08-Jun-2011
Organised in Mexico City as part of OECD's 50 year anniversary celebrations, this seminar focused on designing defined-contribution (DC) pension plans, linking the accumulation and payout phases, designing the payout phase of pension systems and annuities and longevity risk.
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from 03-Oct-2011 to 04-Oct-2011
The 2011 Banking Law Symposium, co-organised with the OECD, focused on bank failure resolution and crisis management, in particular, the use of guarantees and the spill-overs between the credit qualities of sovereigns and banking systems.
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from 05-May-2011 to 06-May-2011
This workshop focused on risk-based pensions supervision, including the recently launched IOPS Toolkit for Risk-based Supervision which helps authorities prepare for such a transition and presents the risk-based models already developed by some countries.
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