Format:
Online-Ressource (466 p.)
ISBN:
9780226062815
Series Statement:
NBER-Project Report
Content:
This book provides valuable information and analysis to managers, policymakers, and investment counselors in the rapidly expanding field of pension funding. American workers, too, need answers and insights on how to invest their money and plan for their retirement. fifteen of America's leading financial analysts address such pressing questions as -What is the current financial status of the elderly, and how vulnerable are they to inflation? -What is the impact of inflation on the private pension system, and what are the effects of alternative indexing schemes? -What roles can the social securi
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Description based upon print version of record
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Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Who Owns the Assets in a Defined-Benefit Pension Plan?; 2. Economic Implications of ERISA; 3. Pensions as Severance Pay; 4. Optimal Funding and Asset Allocation Rules for Defined-Benefit Pension Plans; 5. Pension Funding, Pension Asset Allocation, and Corporate Finance: Evidence from Individual Company Data; 6. Investing for the Short and the Long Term; 7. Pension Funding Decisions, Interest Rate Assumptions, and Share Prices; 8. Should Private Pensions Be Indexed?
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9. Observations on the Indexation of Old Age Pensions10. On Consumption Indexed Public Pension Plans; 11. Retirement Annuity Design in an Inflationary Climate; 12. On the Role of Social Security as a Means for Efficient Risk Sharing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradable; 13. The Economic Status of the Elderly; 14. Portfolio Composition and Pension Wealth: An Econometric Study; List of Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226062891
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226062815
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Financial Aspects of the United States Pension System
Language:
English
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