We investigate the relationship between rule-based versus risk-based regulatory choices in different countries and the real investment performance of their pension funds. Pension systems in countries with more mature risk-based regulatory regimes tend to demonstrate superior investment performance.

Fellesforbundet har overlevert sine krav til Norsk Industri i årets lønnsoppgjør, og som varslet lanserte forbundet ideen om å etablere en felles pensjonskasse og la pensjon bli en del av lønnsoppgjøret. Dette er ingen god ide, skriver adm. direktør Idar Kreutzer i Finans Norge i et innlegg i Dagens Næringsliv.

Pensjonskassekonferansen 2014 avholdes på Park Hotel Sandefjord, 13.-14. mai. Invitasjonen og programmet finner du her.

Australian and Canadian pension funds have been pioneers in infrastructure investing since the early 1990s. They also have the highest asset allocation to infrastructure around the globe today.

NHO fastholder at arbeidstakerne skal holdes langt vekk fra pensjonsspørsmålet.

Private pensions play an important and growing role in providing for old age.Understanding the different features of private pensions, their role in retirement income arrangements, and their performance is essential for policymakers to design better schemes.

This booklet contains information on private-sector pension benefits and the qualifying conditions in the Finnish pension system.

Individuals’ planned retirement age is affected by a trade-off between financial costs (a feasibility oriented consideration) and the number of years in retirement (a desirability oriented consideration). Previous research shows that construal level interventions (i.e., activating a global vs. local mindset with individuals) affect the relative importance of these two types of decision aspects such that primary considerations become more important under a global mindset compared to secondary considerations.

This project uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine the decision to retire after job separation among the increasing number of older individuals who leave a job between 55 and 70, and how this decision varies by labor market conditions and the resources available to the unemployed.

This report study the optimal product choice of home equity release products from the homeowner’s perspective in the presence of longevity, long-term care, house price, and interest rate risk.When given a timing choice, the individual chooses to unlock home equity early in retirement. These key results emerge consistently across a range of cases with different parameter values.

21. januar arrangerte Forskningsrådet den første åpne formidlingskonferansen hvor resultatene fra de første evalueringsprosjektene ble lagt fram.

An uncertain economic outlook and the certitude of an ageing population highlight the importance of productivity across all age groups for Australia’s future. This paper provides national findings on both paid, tax-generating and unpaid, voluntary productivity across the life course, focusing primarily on the baby boomer cohort now in late middle age.