Annuities and Other Retirement Products - Designing the Payout Phase (Paperback, New)

Increasing longevity, globalized competition, and market fluidity have created a new landscape for the development of retirement products. Complete reliance on traditional social security systems and defined benefit pensions is no longer an alternative in emerging economies. The development of defined contribution pension systems during both the accumulation and the payout phases has been attracting attention from policy makers, who realize that valuable lessons can be gleaned from the experiences of countries that are ahead in the reform process. Many countries that have implemented systemic pension reforms and introduced private pension systems are now facing the challenge of organizing the payout phase for retiring workers. This effort entails introducing a well-regulated and well- supervised market for retirement products, including marketing activities, providers, and intermediaries. However, in-depth analysis of the related policy issues, constraints, and options is rare. The literature on the payout phase is narrowly focused on a few countries, mainly the United Kingdom and the United States, and it does not address in sufficient detail the institutional and regulatory issues faced by policy makers in reforming countries. Annuities and Other Retirement Products: Designing the Payout Phase aims to fill the gap in the literature. The book initially focuses on the policy issues and constraints confronting the design of the payout phase and examines risk factors for both pensioners and providers. It then scrutinizes the pension systems of five representative countries - Australia, Chile, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland - which provide a rich variety of experiences and policy lessons applicable to other reforming countries. The five study countries have large mandatory or quasi-mandatory private pension systems operating primarily on a defined contribution basis, and they have already entered the payout phase. A comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between the systems in these countries rounds out the investigation.

General

Imprint:	World Bank Publications
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Directions in Development - Finance
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Roberto Rocha • Dimitri Vittas • Heinz P. Rudolph
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	372
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8213-8573-9
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Personal finance
LSN:	0-8213-8573-9
Barcode:	9780821385739

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