This paper investigates two elements of agency costs, namely the wealth transfer and the value destruction problems, associated with the equity-conversion and writedown CoCo bonds. By focussing on the costs as those stemming from the deviation from absolute priority rule (DAPR), we derive the...

We compute actuarially fair contribution rates (aggregating both employers' and employees' contributions) for the USS pension scheme, using UK life tables and market yield curves. The fair rate is sensitive to life expectancy and the level of real yields, neither of which appears stationary. So...