April 2023
05Apr

Mandatory Pension Contributions: Effects on Household Consumption and Savings

By Linda Sandris Larsen, Ulf Nielsson, Mara Nutu & Jesper Rangvid Using rich register data from Denmark, we study whether people save enough to maintain their pre-retirement level of consumption during retirement. We find that 77% of retirees do. This high fraction is driven by mandatory labour market contributions. The 23% of individuals who do not save enough to maintain their pre-retirement level of consumption are less likely to have mandatory pension schemes and do not compensate for the lack...

April 5, 2023
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05Apr

Aging, Inadequacy, and Fiscal Constraint: The Case of Thailand

By Phitawat Poonpolkul, Ponpoje Porapakkarm & Nada Wasi We use an overlapping generations model to study the challenge in developing countries with a large informal sector and aging populations. We use Thailand as a case study and incorporate its labor market structure and its public pension system into the calibrated model. Unlike developed countries, workers in developing countries commonly transit from the formal sector to the informal sector, which can be in the early stage of their working life. This...

April 5, 2023
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04Apr

Distribución de la cotización adicional en la reforma de pensiones

Por Gabriel Ugarte & Rodrigo Vergara La reforma previsional plantea una cotización adicional del 6%, la que se destinará a un nuevo fondo colec- tivo (FIP). Los aportes se registrarán en cuentas nocionales que financiarán tanto los derechos de pensión según los registros de cada trabajador, como los beneficios intra e intergeneracionales. Dado que con este fondo deberán pagarse los beneficios del seguro social, este entregará una menor rentabilidad a los futuros pensionados en comparación con las cuentas de capitalización...

April 4, 2023
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04Apr

El ahorro para el retiro y los efectos que tiene en el ahorro nacional y en el crecimiento del producto interno bruto

Por Reyes Luna & Daysi Dayana En México, tanto el ahorro en el esquema pensional, el ahorro nacional y el crecimiento económico representan un tema predominante en el marco de la instrumentación de la política económica, por lo que los objetivos fundamentales deben ser la consecución de un crecimiento económico estable y sostenido en el tiempo, así como el sostenimiento de niveles de ahorro aceptables. Este trabajo examina empíricamente la relación que tiene el ahorro en el sistema de pensiones...

April 4, 2023
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04Apr

La brecha financiera de género en España. ¿Cuánto importa que el hogar esté regido por un hombre o una mujer en las decisiones de ahorro e inversión?

Por Nuria Badenes Plá El presente trabajo explota la información contenida en la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF) del año 2017 primero para describir las diferencias en el ahorro y la inversión existentes entre los hogares regentados por hombres y mujeres, y segundo, para determinar si existe un gap de género en las decisiones financieras en las familias españolas. En particular se analiza si la regencia femenina o masculina, unida a otros determinantes presenta poder explicativo en la capacidad...

April 4, 2023
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March 2023
31Mar

Does Common Ownership Affect Employee Welfare? Evidence from Corporate Pension Funding

By Charles Hsu, Zhiming Ma & Kaitang Zhou This study examines the effect of common institutional ownership on corporate pension funding. We posit that a common owner’s incentive to maximize shareholder value may come at the cost of employee welfare. Consistent with this prediction, we find robust evidence that firms with common ownership demonstrate greater pension underfunding than firms without common ownership. This effect increases with firms’ value-added activities, common owners’ shareholding, duration of ownership, and portfolio size. It decreases...

March 31, 2023
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31Mar

ESG and Climate Change: Pension Fund Dos and Don’ts

By Randy Bauslaugh Pension fund administrators have a fiduciary duty to prudently manage financial risks and opportunities when investing plan assets and when managing plan operations that are paid from the pension fund. This includes the financial risks and opportunities associated with climate change and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. But what are the legal dos and don’ts? Plan fiduciaries will always be on solid legal ground if they take ESG information into account for financial purposes – to...

March 31, 2023
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31Mar

Frames, Incentives, and Education: Effectiveness of Interventions to Delay Public Pension Claiming

By Franca Glenzer, Pierre-Carl Michaud & Stefan Staubli Many people forgo a higher stream of public pension income by claiming early. We provide both quasi-experimental and survey-experimental evidence that the timing of public pension claiming is relatively inelastic to changes in financial incentives in Canada. Using the survey experiment, we evaluate the effect of two different educational interventions and different ways of framing the incentive to delay claiming. While all three types of interventions induce delays, these interventions have heterogeneous...

March 31, 2023
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24Mar

Retirement preparedness during uncertain times

By Fidelity 2023 RSA Executive Summary Fidelity’s Retirement Savings Assessment is built upon comprehensive data from more than 3,500 survey responses that are run through the extensive retirement planning platform Fidelity uses every day with customers. The result: a numerical indicator showing whether savers are on track to meet estimated retirement income needs. The score places households into four categories on the preparedness spectrum, based on a household’s ability to cover estimated retirement expenses in a down market. Read book here

March 24, 2023
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24Mar

Pensions and the Nordic Welfare Model

By Torben M. Andersen Within the frame of the Nordic welfare model, pension system design has taken very different routes. While the overall aims in terms of distribution and replacement rates are similar, the division of labour between defined benefit and contribution as well as pay-as-you-go versus funded schemes differs significantly. The main characteristics of the pension systems in the Nordic countries are presented, and outcomes relating to pension adequacy in terms of poverty and replacement rates are discussed. Specific...

March 24, 2023
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