Research Conference on “Risk Sharing in Defined Contribution Pension Schemes”

Proposed themes include: - The risks inherent in DC schemes. - Methods to share risk, including inter- and intra-generational risk-sharing and other ways to reduce the potential dispersion of retirement outcomes for members - Theory and evidence of risk sharing in which there is no scheme liability and of risk sharing in which there is a scheme liability. - Managing liabilities as a result of risk sharing. - Analysis of scheme characteristics required for successful risk sharing. - Behavioural aspects of risk sharing (e.g. impact on opt-in, opt-out, fund switching and unforced contribution breaks). - Theory and evidence of regulations and legislation needed to invoke forms of risk sharing.