El sistema pensional colombiano se encuentra en una de las etapas más críticas de los últimos años, representando el mayor problema fiscal que enfrentarán las finanzas públicas en el y en los próximos veinte años. Las modificaciones a la legislación hechas desde 1993 beneficiaron a contados sectores de la sociedad y desencadenaron en onerosos beneficios para unos pocos. Más que hacia un enfoque...
La introducción del nuevo sistema de seguridad social en 1993 trajo cambios en las relaciones existentes entre las instituciones colombianas. En el sector salud, el nuevo sistema conllevó a la creación de agentes intermediarios, quienes han desarrollado un papel de importancia en la determinación de los flujos económicos del sector y sus participantes. Hasta el momento, pocas investigaciones han...
El Informe recoge y analiza los principales resultados de un estudio sobre los comportamientos y actitudes de los españoles ante la jubilación y su conocimiento sobre los planes de pensiones. Este estudio ha sido encargado por ING DIRECT a la consultora de investigación de mercado Bufete de Marketing y responde a la intención del banco de conocer cuáles son las necesidades de los consumidores en...
This paper outlines the regulatory framework within which occupational defined benefit pension plans are financed and addresses the challenges facing the funding of such plans. The Appendices include a summary and discussion of the funding regulations in twelve OECD countries plus Brazil – all of which have a long history of DB plans. The paper draws on these experiences in these countries and...
Annuities are specifically designed to cover the risk that an individual outlives their own resources by transferring such risk to an insurance undertaking. Despite an increasing need for annuity products (due to increasing longevity, decreasing state pensions, a rise in Defined Contribution pension plans etc.), these markets remains under-developed in many OECD countries. This paper attempts to...
Uncertainty about length of life, longevity risk, is a growing financial problem for pension funds and annuity providers. They would like to transfer longevity risk away to institutions better placed to deal with it. Unfortunately, there is a lack of financial instruments to hedge against this longevity risk, thereby complicating risk management by pension funds and hindering the expansion of the...
The issue of pension benefit security has returned to the foreground of both economic and political debate in many OECD countries - following high profile losses of pension benefits due to plan sponsors becoming bankrupt and leaving underfunded pension schemes. Some countries have dealt with pension benefit protection via strong funding rules (the route taken for example by the Dutch authorities)....
This paper provides a stylised assessment of the impact of investment-relevant pension fund regulations and accounting rules on contribution and investment strategies within the context of an asset-liability model (ALM) specifically designed for this purpose. The analysis identifies a substantial impact of regulations which, in a simplified way, resemble those in place in Germany, Japan, the...
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are pools of assets owned and managed directly or indirectly by governments to achieve national objectives. These funds have raised concerns about: (i) financial stability, (ii) corporate governance and (iii) political interference and protectionism. At the same time governments have formed other large pools of capital to finance public pension systems, i.e. Public...
The objective of this study is to analyse what the quantitative funding requirements for pension funds with defined benefit plans would be, if Solvency II (based on the QIS 3 methodology) would be applied. Also possible extensions of the Solvency II methodology that seem necessary in order to reflect the specifics of pension funds will be discussed. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar cuáles...
