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		<title><![CDATA[Evaluating Administrative Costs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51181]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This study examines evidence on administrative costs of the AFORES experienced during the program's start-up phase. We explore interactions between program design and program expenses and evaluate likely developments that could alter administrative costs in the future. We find that administrative expenses of the Mexican AFORES will probably change in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Securitized Risk Instruments as Alternative Pension Fund Investments]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51163]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Recent years have seen the introduction of a new class of derivative securities based on ""exotic underlyings"" such as natural catastrophes and weather. This paper analyzes the pros and cons of these new securities as assets for institutional investors. It is argued that the underlyings on which these derivatives trade...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Risk Transfer in Public Pension Plans]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51153]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Actuaries and sponsors of public sector defined benefit pension plans agree that each generation of taxpayers should bear its fair share of the long term plan cost. Actuarial methods and assumptions are designed to equate expected costs across generations. This paper uses arbitrage principles to show that equating expected costs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retirement Guarantees in Mandatory Defined Contribution Systems]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51158]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Most public pension systems, whether they are of the predominant pay-as-you-go defined benefit type or of the defined contribution type, include guarantees for retirement income.The paper reviews the design of such guarantees in a large set of countries and discusses the economic rationale and incentive structure resulting from these designs....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retirement Guarantees in Voluntary Defined Contribution Plans]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51161]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Defined contribution plans are providing an increasing share of retirement income in a number of  countries around the world. With this type of plan, concern has been raised as to the amount of risk that workers bear. One response has been to incorporate rate of return guarantees in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Credit Implications of the Payout Annuity Market]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51167]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Our paper will examine the growth prospects and accompanying risks for the insurance industry in the payout annuity marketplace. By answering market demands in the payout annuity market and providing equity market participation with downside protection over the life of an annuitant, an insurance company  exposes itself to a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/annuity.html"><![CDATA[Annuity]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Integrating Payouts: Annuity Design and Public Pension Benefits]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51150]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This chapter focuses on the design of annuities and similar retirement income instruments. It is especially concerned with interactions between annuity preference and underlying publicly-provided safety net support. Because DC-type plans expose individuals to investment and inflation risk, governments often provide guarantees on pension fund benefits, as well as non-...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/annuity.html"><![CDATA[Annuity]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Securing Public Pension Promises through Funding]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51156]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Abstract  Many pension schemes mandated by governments have accumulated large  reserves. The management of these funds has a direct effect on financial  sustainability and potential benefit le vels. It also has important indirect effects on  the overall economy, especially when the funds are large relative to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Company Stock and Pension Plan Diversification]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51147]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This chapter makes two contributions. First, it develops a measure of the diversification level in a DC plan participant's portfolio. This measure computes how much additional risk reduction can be had by reallocating investments among the choices permitted within the DC plan, without changing the expected return of the currently...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An Analysis of Investment Advice to Retirement Plan Participants]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51141]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This chapter examines the investment advice currently provided to participants in self-directed retirement plans (401k, 403b, etc.) by financial service firms and investment advisory services. It finds much of the advice to be logically flawed and dangerously misleading. There exists a strong bias in favor of investing retirement savings in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/retirement+plan.html"><![CDATA[Retirement Plan]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Developments in Risk Management for Retirement Security]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51144]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper offer a brief analysis of why traditional defined benefit pension plan appears to be abandoned in favor of defined contribution plans. We also discuss some key risks that both defined contribution and defined benefit plans convey upon plan members, and we highlight some of the ways recommended by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/retirement.html"><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51125]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["The article shows that in the last several years, many employers have decided to automatically enroll  their new employees in the company 401k plan. Using several years of administrative data  from three large firms, we analyze the impact of automatic enrollment on 401k participation  rates, savings behavior,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Defined Contribution Pensions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51129]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The article assess the impact on savings behavior of several different 401k plan features, including automatic enrollment, automatic cash distributions, employer matching provisions, eligibility  requirements, investment options, and financial education. We also present new survey evidence on individual savings adequacy. Many of our conclusions are based on an analysis...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Company Stock and Retirement Plan Diversification]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51130]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["This article explores several aspects regarding the role of company stock in U.S. pension plans. After surveying the legal and fiduciary status of company stock, we briefly review the role of Employee Stock Ownership Plans ESOPs and combined 401k/ESOP or KSOP plans. Second, we analyze holding  patterns of company...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Personal Retirement Accounts]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51134]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Personal retirement accounts are attractive in the context of Social Security reform for several reasons. One is that such accounts would give workers ownership and a degree of responsibility over their own retirement saving. Another is that personal accounts would afford participants an opportunity to pass  wealth to survivors...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[International Adverse Selection]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51136]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper evaluates the extent of adverse selection in life insurance and annuities in international markets. We examine the extent of adverse selection in group and individual life insurance. In addition we also compare results with prior analyses of adverse selection in international annuity markets, focusing on the US.Our results...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/selection.html"><![CDATA[Selection]]></category>
		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/annuity.html"><![CDATA[Annuity]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Evidence on Pension Plan Design and Administrative Expenses]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51139]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper explore the links between retirement plan offerings and pension expenses for a wide range of private and public sector pension plans, using an invaluable new data set on almost two thousand Australian pension funds. The results imply that plan design has a substantial impact on pension plan expenses...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New Trends in Pension Benefit]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51179]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Private sector pension plans have undergone substantial change in form and structure in the United States over the last two decades. This paper explores and evaluates these changes using information on pension plan characteristics gathered by the U.S. Department of Labor DOL since 1980 in their periodic Employee Benefits Survey...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Developments in Retirement Provision]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51180]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If pensions are to continue to meet the needs of an aging world, it is imperative to prepare for emerging challenges as these systems evolve through time.In these remarks we first show how global demographic change is driving pension change throughout the world. Next we describe and compare developments in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=51169]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper evaluates potential responses to reductions in early Social Security retirement benefits. Using the Health and Retirement Study HRS linked to administrative records, we find that Social Security coverage is quite uneven in the older population: one-quarter of respondents in their late 50's lacks coverage under the Disability Insurance...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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