Tidligpensjonering kan være bra for helsen. Det viser en fersk svensk forskningsstudie som sammenligner helsen til yrkesoffiserer med ulik avgangsalder.

The focus of this study is on line managers’ attitudes towards their management role in respect of employee retirement.

Tax incentives are seen as a means to encourage pension saving amid concerns that people are not saving enough for retirement. Pension saving attracts a level of tax relief that compares favourably with other types of saving. However, there are concerns that tax relief is expensive, poorly targeted and does not achieve its policy objectives.

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the Netherlands.

The Norwegian ministry of finance has asked us to investigate the possibilities for the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to profit from liquidity premiums in illiquid investments. Can a large investor with a long horizon, limited short term liquidity needs and high risk bearing capacity, such as the GPFG, profit from these liquidity premiums?

The 23rd wave of the Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) finds that Americans’ confidence in their ability to afford a comfortable retirement remains low, despite the improving economy.

The last decade has witnessed a renewed interest of researchers in portfolio choice theory, with a particular emphasis on the portfolio choice problem of a multi-period investor. The variability of expected asset returns over time is one of main distinctions that sets apart the multi-period portfolio choice problem from its single-period counterpart.

It is widely accepted that mortality risk varies across individuals within age-sex bands of a population. This heterogeneity exposes insurers to adverse selection if only the healthiest lives purchase annuities, so standard annuities are priced with a mortality table that assumes above-average longevity.

Regulering av grunnbeløpet og pensjonene fra 1.mai 2014. Regjeringen og organisasjonene er enige om tallgrunnlaget for reguleringen av grunnbeløpet og pensjonene fra 1. mai 2014.

The United Kingdom is rolling out a low-cost retirement system for workers who lack pension coverage.

This report reviews recent as well as planned changes to accounting and solvency regulations affecting insurers and pension funds and how they may impact long-term investing by these institutions.

Inclusion of means testing into age pension programs allows governments to better direct benefits to those most in need and to control funding costs by providing flexibility to control the participation rate (extensive margin) and the benefit level (intensive margin).