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Fundamentals of Private Pensions
For almost five decades, Fundamentals of Private Pensions has been the most authoritative text and reference book on private pensions in the world. The revised and updated Eighth Edition adds to past knowledge while providing exciting new perspectives on the provision of retirement income. This new edition is organized into six main sections dealing with a variety of separable pension issues. Section I provides an introductory discussion on the historical evolution of the pension movement and how pensions fit into the patchwork of the whole retirement income security system in the United States. It includes a discussion about the economics of the tax incentives that have played a role in sti...
Growing Old
While the immediate dangers from the recent financial crisis have abated much of the financial system has returned to profitability and the economy is growing, albeit slowly the damage to the economy will linger for years. Among the many impacts is the problem that may be most acute in the United States: how state and local governments and private companies will honor their obligations under defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Institutional investors also confront new difficulties in the low-interest-rate environment that has prevailed since the onset of the crisis. East Asian economies, namely in Japan, Korea, and China, also face pension issues as their populations age. In Growing Old, exp...
The Future of Pensions in the United States
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Social Security Reform in Advanced Countries
Increasingly ageing populations and a slowing rate of growth in the macroeconomy are forcing advanced countries to reconsider their social security programmes. The need for detailed examination of the possible reforms and initiatives has never been greater.This book brings together internationally-renowned scholars to evaluate the effect of recent
Women and Social Security Reform
Witnesses include: Senators Charles E. Grassley, John Breaux, Chuck Hagel, Mike Enzi, and Evan Bayh; Olivia S. Mitchell, professor, Department of Insurance and Risk Management, Wharton School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania; Alicia H. Munnell, Peter F. Drucker professor of Management Sciences, Boston College, Carroll School of Management; Robert L. Clark, professor, College of Management, North Carolina State University; C. Gene Steuerle, senior fellow, the Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Mark J. Warshawsky, director of Research, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund, New York, NY.
Pension Design and Structure
Employees are increasingly asked to make sophisticated decisions about their pension and healthcare plans. Yet recent research shows that the decisions 'real' people make are often not those of the careful and well-informed economic agent conventionally portrayed in economic research. Rather, decision-makers tend to operate with flawed information and make some of the most critical financial decisions of their lives lacking a full understanding of the options before them and the implications of their decisions. Pension Design and Structure explores the assumptions behind commonly-held theories of retirement decision-making, in order to draw out the consequences of frontier research in behavi...
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Benefits Quarterly
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