Retirement Provision in Scary Markets

Edited by Hazel Bateman

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Abstract: The past few decades have witnessed a global move towards private provision for retirement through individual defined contribution pensions at the expense of publicly provided and employer-sponsored defined benefit pensions. As a consequence, workers and retirees are becoming increasingly exposed to uncertainties in financial, labour and economic markets. The contributors to this book analyse the implications for retirement income policy, workers and retirees in view of the current climate of heightened exposure to scary markets. The implications of a broad range of scary market scenarios are presented, and novel solutions prescribed. Retirement incomes across a number of countries including the US, the UK, Japan and Australia are explored.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781843769064
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Hazel Bateman

Ch 2 Who's afraid of the big bad bear? Or, why investing in equities for retirement is not scary and why investing without equities is scary

Ronald Newley, Nick Ingram, Veronic Livera and Sheridan Thompson

Ch 3 Assessing the risks in global fixed interest portfolios

Geoffrey Brianton

Ch 4 The role of index funds in retirement asset allocation

David Gallagher

Ch 5 Retirement wealth and lifetime earnings variability

Olivia Mitchell, John W. R. Phillips, Andrew Au and David McCarthy

Ch 6 How have older workers responded to scary markets?

Jonathan Gardner and Mike Orszag

Ch 7 Financial engineering for Australian annuitants

Susan Thorp, Geoffrey Kingston and Hazel Bateman

Ch 8 Soothing investment returns

Anthony Asher

Ch 9 Ansett's superannuation fund: a case study in insolvency

Shauna Ferris

Ch 10 Pension funds and retirement benefits in a depressed economy: experience and challenges in Japan

Masaharu Usuki

Ch 11 The structure and regulation of the Brazilian private pension system

Flavio Marcilio Rabelo

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