Pension Fund Investment from Ageing to Emerging Markets:

• The rapid ageing of populations in the rich economies can be expected to stimulate strong growth in private funded pensions, providing a massive potential of foreign finance for developing countries. • Pension managers can reap big diversification benefits by investing on the emerging stock market...

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Main Author: Fischer, Bernhard (Author)
Other Authors: Reisen, Helmut (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 1995
Series:OECD Development Centre Policy Briefs
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1787/167164365404
Summary:• The rapid ageing of populations in the rich economies can be expected to stimulate strong growth in private funded pensions, providing a massive potential of foreign finance for developing countries. • Pension managers can reap big diversification benefits by investing on the emerging stock markets of the younger economies, benefits which are largely unexploited so far. • The authorities in OECD countries should consider removing regulatory constraints imposed on pension assets that deprive retirees from the pension-improving benefits of global diversification. • Policy makers in developing countries should design policies that reassure institutional investors on default risk and stock market illiquidity, if they want to tap a higher share of OECD pension assets
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (28 Seiten) 21 x 29.7cm
DOI:10.1787/167164365404