Pensions

The Pension Crisis concerns the changing demographic profile of the economy: an increasing number of elderly persons supported by fewer young people.

People covered by public pensions are often the subject of 'pension envy:' that is, their benefits might seem more generous and their contributions lower than those offered by the private sector.

Mortality improvements, uncertainty in future mortality trends and the relevant impact on life annuities and pension plans constitute important topics in the field of actuarial mathematics and life insurance techniques.

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems.

This book explores how rising pension and healthcare costs, along with workforce aging, are affecting pension and retirement planning around the world.

Employees are increasingly asked to make sophisticated decisions about their pension and healthcare plans.

This book, the first in a new series produced by the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School in collaboration with Oxford University Press, explores ways to enhance retirement security in a volatile financial environment.

As the leading edge of the 'Baby Boom' generation attains age 60, members of this unusually large cohort born 1946-66 are poised to redefine retirement - just as they have restructured educational, housing, and labor markets in prior days.

Latin American experiments with pension reform began when Chile converted its public pay-as-you-go system to a system of private individual accounts in the early 1980s.

This book posits that retirement security is the central policy concern of our time.

The market for retirement financial advice has never been more important and yet more in flux.

Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses.

Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses.

This volumes examines the interaction of labour market conditions and retirement decisions.

The 1964 termination of the Studebaker Corporation's pension plan wiped out or significantly reduced the pensions of thousands of the automaker's employees and retirees.

The goal of Asset-Liability Management (ALM) of a Defined Benefit Pension Scheme (DB) is to properly manage the risks related to variation in its building blocks on both sides of the balance sheet whilst maintaining the same expected return.

The financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession alerted those seeking to protect old-age security, about the extreme risks confronting the financial and political institutions comprising our retirement system.

TIAA-CREF is the largest private pension plan in the world, with more than $260 billion under management, including an estimated 1% of all shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

The United States faces a serious retirement challenge.

The United States faces a serious retirement challenge.

In the wake of the financial crisis and Great Recession, the health of state and local pension plans has emerged as a front burner policy issue.

This book examines the concept of retirement, how it has changed, and what the future holds for the next generation of retirees.