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Collective Pension Funds: International Evidence and Implications for China's Enterprise Annuities Reform
Hu, Yu-Wei; Pugh, Colin; Stewart, Fiona; Yermo, Juan - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2007
back the development of EA plans among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in China, and bearing in mind both China … as independent pension councils (trustees) for open pension funds; 4) in parallel to these policy initiatives in China … internationales et conséquences pour la réforme des rentes d'entreprise en Chine<BR>Les fonds de pension collectifs (FPC) – fonds de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962934
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Institutional Investors and Infrastructure Financing
Croce, Raffaele Della; Yermo, Juan - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013
The economic downturn is likely to have a lasting impact on the fund management industry and on long term asset allocation strategies of institutional investors. On one hand, in promoting more cautious investment strategies and a greater focus on portfolio risk management in the coming years. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276659
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Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure: A Comparison Between Australia and Canada
Inderst, Georg; Croce, Raffaele Della - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013
Australian and Canadian pension funds have been pioneers in infrastructure investing since the early 1990s. They also have the highest asset allocation to infrastructure around the globe today. This paper compares and contrasts the experience of institutional investors in the two countries...
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Defined-Contribution (DC) Arrangements in Anglo-Saxon Countries
Ashcroft, John - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2009
This paper provides a comparative analysis of defined contribution (DC) pension systems in Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. There are considerable similarities in the systems which have evolved out of employer sponsored trust-based defined benefit (DB) systems and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962919
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Longevity Risk and Private Pensions
Antolín, Pablo - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2007
This paper examines how uncertainty regarding future mortality and life expectancy outcomes, i.e. longevity risk, affects employer-provided defined benefit (DB) private pension plans liabilities. The paper argues that to assess uncertainty and associated risks adequately, a stochastic approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962925
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Tax Treatment of Private Pension Savings in OECD Countries and the Net Tax Cost Per Unit of Contribution to Tax-Favoured Schemes
Yoo, Kwang-Yeol; Serres, Alain de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
This paper provides, for all OECD countries, an estimate of the net tax cost per currency unit of contribution to a tax-favoured retirement savings plan, using a present-value methodology. The latter takes into account the future flows of revenues foregone on accrued income and of revenues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046077
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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty: Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania
Abiona, Olukorede; Foureaux Koppensteiner, Martin - 2018
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984488
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Social Performance of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) : Does Existing Practice Imply a Social Objective?
Thrikawala, Sujani - 2013
Many microfinance institutions (MFIs) are currently drifting away from their original mission of alleviating poverty. The objective of this article is to identify and update significant social performance (SP) for micro-finance institutions (MFIs) by viewing social performance measures as a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075353
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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty : Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania
Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux - 2018
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907820
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Financial Inclusion, Shocks and Poverty : Evidence from the Expansion of Mobile Money in Tanzania
Abiona, Olukorede - 2018
We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909557