New Policies for Mandatory Defined Contribution Pensions: Industrial Organization Models and Investment Products

Gregorio Impavido (), Esperanza Lasagabaster and Manuel Garcia-Huitron
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No 2462 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: The recent financial crisis is challenging the reform approach to mandated pension a scheme that has emerged over recent decades across the world. This reform approach is characterized by a move toward multi-pillar pension systems and includes the creation or extension of a mandatory funded pillar with defined contribution design. The rationale and viability of such a pillar is contingent on an enabling environment and the delivery of high risk-adjusted net rates of return that beat the natural benchmark, which is the internal rate of return that an unfunded mandated scheme is able to achieve. Two key aspects of mandated and funded defined contribution schemes have been under discussion and investigation since dedicated pension funds were created: (a) the high fees levied by privately organized pension funds and the consequence for the net rate of return; and (b) the investment products of these funds and their capability to address the investment risks and to deliver the expected retirement income in a life-cycle context. To this end, country policies have experimented with a variety of approaches to improve outcomes with some important leads but overall modest results. This book proposes to take a fresh and highly innovative look at both policy issues. It suggests stepping back and looking at the underlying causes of the issues at stake instead of merely trying to address their symptoms. In addressing the high fees of pension funds, it focuses on the less-than-ideal conditions inert consumers facing firms with market powers and proposes to apply solutions derived from industrial organization models and pricing methods that better reflect the cost structure of the supply of pension services. In addressing the investment risks, it asks how to improve fund managers' risk-adjusted investment performance when participants are inert.

Keywords: Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Debt; Markets; Macroeconomics; and; Economic; Growth-Markets; and; Market; Access; Private; Sector; Development-Emerging; Markets; Macroeconomics; and; Economic; Growth-Economic; Theory; &; Research; Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Financial; Literacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8213-8276-9
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