We offer an overview of solutions available to pension plans to manage capital market risk in order to meet their obligations. We outline the main drivers behind the evolution of asset-liability management (ALM) for pension plans and the emergence of liability-driven investment (LDI) in the last...

Technology adoption is crucial for the development of low income countries. This paper investigates how parametric insurance can contribute to improving access to finance, and hence to technology, for smallholder farmers. In a model with moral hazard, we show that bundling parametric insurance...