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Title

Retirement system risk management : implications of the new regulatory order / edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, Raimond Maurer and J. Michael Orszag.

Publication

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Mitchell, Olivia S.
• Maurer, Raimond
• Orszag, Michael

Description

xvii, 223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

In the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, lawmakers and regulators around the world have changed the playbook for how banks and other financial institutions must manage their risks and report their activities. The US Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS) is also crafting a framework to supervise regulated financial sector institutions including banks, insurers, pension funds, and asset managers. The implosion of the financial sector has also prompted calls for accounting changes from those seeking to better understand how assets and liabilities are reported. Initially banks were seen by many as the most important focus for regulatory reform, but other institutions are now attracting policymaker attention. There is logic to this in terms of managing systemic risk and ensuring a level playing field that avoids arbitrage between institutional structures. Yet the nature of pension and insurer liabilities is so different from that of bank liabilities that careful attention is needed in drafting appropriate rules. The new rules are having both direct and spill-over effects on retirement systems around the world. The first half of this volume undertakes an assessment of how global responses to the financial crisis are potentially altering how insurers, pension plan sponsors, and policymakers will manage risk in the decades to come. The second half evaluates developments in retirement saving and retirement products, to determine which and how these might help meet shortfalls in retirement provision.

Subjects

• Pensions
• Pension trusts > Management
• Risk management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: implications of the new regulatory order for retirement system risk management / Olivia S. Mitchell, Raimond Maurer, and J. Michael Orszag -- Part 1. Global risk assessment for pensions and annuities -- The new insurance supervisory landscape: implications for insurance and pensions / Peter A. Fisher -- Accounting-based asset return smoothing in participating life annuities: implications for annuitants, insurers, and policymakers / Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, Ralph Rogalla, and Ivonne Siegelin -- Mark-to-market accounting for United States corporate pensions: implementation and impact / Joseph Busillo, Thomas Harvey, and Bryan Hoffman -- Risk disclosure in the European insurance industry: implications for occupational pension funds / Karel Van Hulle -- Pensions, risk, and global systemically important financial institutions / Brian Reid and Dan Waters -- Part 2. Developments in retirement saving and retirement products -- Determinants of saving for old age around the world / Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Leora Klapper, and Georgios A. Panos -- Retirement replacement rates: what and how / Andrew G. Biggs -- Fundamentals of cost and risk that matter to pension savers and life annuitants / Catherine Donnelly, Montserrat Guillén, and Jens Perch Nielsen -- Pension fund investment in infrastructure and global financial regulation / Javier Alonso, Alfonso Arellano, and David Tuesta -- End pages -- Index.

Call Number

JBE 17-301

ISBN

• 9780198787372
• 0198787375

LCCN

2016945378

OCLC

962793043

Title

Retirement system risk management : implications of the new regulatory order / edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, Raimond Maurer and J. Michael Orszag.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mitchell, Olivia S., editor.

Maurer, Raimond, editor.

Orszag, Michael, editor.

Research Call Number

JBE 17-301