Financing Gaps of Public Pension Schemes and Market Potential for the Private Retirement Market

Thomas Trauth

North American Actuarial Journal, 2001, vol. 5, issue 1, 109-113

Abstract: Increasing longevity, declining birth rates, and high unemployment severely threaten the financial basis of many public pension plans. These problems are most pronounced in continental Europe, where public pension plans tend to be relatively generous and are usually funded on a pay-as-you-go basis. Given the demographic development, future pension payments exceed the expected contribution payments. The resulting financing gaps can be seen as implicit public debts (net pension liabilities), which often exceed the value of GDP figures and are in many cases higher than the explicit public debt figures. If people would decide to cover these financing gaps via life insurance, life insurance premiums would triple in Germany, more than double in Italy, and double in Canada and France. The increase would be only moderate in the U.S. and particularly small in the U.K.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1080/10920277.2001.10595958

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