En un sistema de capitalización individual uno de los principales riesgos que se enfrentan se refiere al de inversión de los fondos. En este contexto, se analiza el sustento de optar por estrategias de inversión de ciclo de vida como mecanismo mitigador del riesgo de las inversiones. Sobre esta base se analiza la importancia de la opción por omisión a la luz del comportamiento económico de los...
El sistema de pensiones en Chile basado en la capitalización individual comenzó a operar hace 30 años. En este período ha tenido importantes cambios, sobre todo en materias financieras relacionadas con las inversiones de los Fondos de Pensiones. La más reciente reforma tuvo un carácter comprensivo, abarcando al sistema de pensiones en forma integral, incluidos lo pilares no contributivo y...
Chile went through a major pension system reform in 1981, replacing the state managed pay-as-you-go system by a privately-managed fully funded scheme. The reform implied a rather important increase in the net present value of expected pension wealth for most of those who opted-out to the new arrangement. We investigate the extent to which households substitute this increase by decreasing...
El Seguro de Cesantía (SC) junto con proteger el ingreso de los trabajadores dependientes ante eventos de desempleo, tiene el objetivo complementario de incentivar y apoyar la búsqueda de un nuevo empleo. El año 2007, se dio inicio a un programa de becas de capacitación para los beneficiarios del Fondo de Cesantía Solidario (FCS). Utilizando datos administrativos del SC y de las capacitaciones...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss a few issues related to how best to communicate uncertainty about projections of future pension benefits to members of DC plans, and especially to present a pension risk simulator developed by the Chilean regulator (Superintendencia de Pensiones, SP) that addresses directly how to convey that uncertainty and aims at eliciting a pro-active response from...
El documento hace una revisión de las principales fuentes de protección social que hay en Colombia y las características de los sistemas de protección de otros países. Se encuentra que gran parte de lo que se conoce como gasto social se destina al tema pensional y que los resultados de los fondos de solidaridad son muy pequeños frente a la autoprotección de los hogares. Se propone tener en cuenta...
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...
The principal purpose of this paper is to analyse the trade-off between the uncertainty in contributions on the one hand and benefits on the other that is embedded in different pension arrangements. The paper employs the funding ratio (ratio of assets to liabilities) and the replacement rate (ratio of benefits to salaries) as key criteria for evaluating the risk sharing characteristics of a...
Three essential goals of pension plan funding are the long-term viability, stability and security of member benefits. Reform of funding regulations for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes to make them more counter-cyclical in nature can help achieve these goals as well as make DB schemes more attractive to plan sponsors that are increasingly moving away from DB towards defined contribution plans....
