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Pensions at a Glance 2009: Highlights for the UK

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23-Jun-2009

The United Kingdom’s private pension funds have been heavily hit by the financial crisis, with real losses of 17.4% in 2008... The proportion of retirement income package from voluntary private pensions in the UK is the highest among OECD countries.

Pensions at a Glance 2007: Highlights - United Kingdom

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07-Jun-2007

This document presents the main highlights for United Kingdom from Pensions at a Glance 2007: The UK has the lowest public pensions in the 30 OECD countries. The limited role of the state in old-age support ...

Trends in Severe Disability Among Elderly People (Health Working Paper No. 26)

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30-Mar-2007

Gaétan Lafortune, Gaëlle Balestat

As the number and share of the population aged 65 and over will continue to grow steadily in OECD countries over the next decades, improvements in the functional status of elderly people could help mitigate the rise in the demand for, and hence expenditure on, long-term care.

OECD supports pension reform in the UK but calls for broader measures to encourage older people to work longer

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29-Nov-2005

The OECD has stressed that pension reform is only the beginning of the road to cope with the challenges faced by the UK as a result of population ageing. Living longer must mean working longer in order ...

Spotlight: Pensions reform in the UK

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29-Nov-2005

This selection of OECD documents and publications will help you better understand the importance of the UK pensions reform in the context of an ageing population.

Solvency Protection for Private Pension Systems - United Kingdom Perspective, by George Russell

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02-Aug-2001

The purpose of this paper is to outline the nature and method of operation of pensions protection mechanisms in the United Kingdom (UK). There is no pensions solvency insurance arrangement in the UK. Therefore ...

Annuity Margins in the UK, by Mamta Murthi, J. Michael Orszag, Peter R. Orszag

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01-Jul-2000

The UK requires individuals with private pensions to annuitize by the age of 75. Using data on annuity rates over time, we calculate the financial cost of annuitization in terms of reduction in yield relative ...