The Controversy of Funding Versus Pay-As-You-Go: What Remains of the Debate?

Jan B Kuné
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Jan B Kuné: ABP Pension Fund, the Public Employees' Pension Fund in the Netherlands and Amsterdam University

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2001, vol. 26, issue 3, 418-434

Abstract: The present article deals with some basic characteristics of both pension finance systems pay-as-you-go and capital reserve. The merits and demerits of both finance systems are discussed at length. The major question mostly asked is whether funding does matter and if so, what conditions have to be fulfilled. Funding generally does not transfer the pension burden over time, opposed to frequent usual thinking. Apart from stimulating national savings and investments the major advantage of funding is that it provides the best way of securing pension liabilities and an adequate mechanism for solving the distributional problem of national product between the retired and non-retired by the ownership of (part of) the capital stock. After many years of debate of pay-as-you-go versus funding it can be concluded that the debate has lost much of its heat. The issues are better understood and there is convergence on some basic points. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (2001) 26, 418–434. doi:10.1111/1468-0440.00127

Date: 2001
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