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The Pension Challenge: Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security

Olivia S. Mitchell and Kent Smetters, Editors
This book shows how pension systems can help protect against risks in light of current uncertain economic and financial global stresses. Several challenges confronting employees, retirees, companies, and governments are explored. Experts analyze whether and how financial products and systems can be better designed to meet and manage retirement risks.

December 2003 · Oxford University Press · ISBN 0-19-926691-3

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Title Page and Copyright Information [27K PDF]
Download Table of Contents [9K PDF]
Chapter 1: Overview: Developments in Risk Management For Retirement Security [120K PDF · login required]
Chapter 2: An Analysis of Investment Advice to Retirement Plan Participants [120K PDF · login required]
Chapter 3: The Role of Company Stock in Defined Contribution Plans [229K PDF · login required]
Chapter 4: Company Stock and Pension Plan Diversification [167K PDF · login required]
Chapter 5: Integrating Payouts: Annuity Design and Public Pension Benefits in Mandatory Defined Contribution Plans [134K PDF · login required]
Chapter 6: Risk Transfer in Public Pension Plans [205K PDF · login required]
Chapter 7: Securing Public Pension Promises through Funding [229K PDF · login required]
Chapter 8: Understanding Individual Account Guarantees [203K PDF · login required]
Chapter 9: Money-Back Guarantees in Individual Pension Accounts: Evidence from the German Pension Reform [204K PDF · login required]
Chapter 10: Hedging Segregated Fund Guarantees [185K PDF · login required]
Chapter 11: Retirement Guarantees in Mandatory Defined Contribution Systems [106K PDF · login required]
Chapter 12: Retirement Guarantees in Voluntary Defined Contribution Plans [128K PDF · login required]
Chapter 13: Securitized Risk Instruments as Alternative Pension Fund Investments [155K PDF · login required]
Chapter 14: Credit Implications of the Payout Annuity Market [155K PDF · login required]

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