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This report describes the main quantitative investment regulations applied to pension funds in OECD and selected non-OECD countries as of December 2009.

The questionnaire covers all types of pension plans financed via pension funds. Where regulations vary depending on the type of plan (occupational, personal, mandatory, voluntary, DB, DC, etc), the tables identify the types of plan that the investment regulations apply to.

The information collected concerns all forms of quantitative portfolio restrictions (minima and maxima) applied to pension funds at different legal levels (law, regulation, guidelines, etc). The survey also includes information on investment regulations pertaining to selected non-OECD countries that participate in the meetings of the Working Private Pension Party (WPPP) as observers (i.e. Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Russian Federation and South Africa).

The survey contains four different tables. Table 1 contains only portfolio ceilings on pension fund investment by broad asset classes. Table 2 contains quantitative restrictions on foreign investment. Table 3 contains other quantitative restrictions classified by type of regulation. Table 4 shows the main changes to pension fund investment regulations during the period 2002-2009.