Pension schemes and asset managers need to have “the best possible data to hand” to comply with current and emerging reporting requirements, Bloch added, meaning they needed “modern data infrastructures that are designed with the intention of managing the deluge of data that is now an innate ...
Despite recent advances in risk management techniques, pension funds are still struggling with the concept of risk and with the practical challenges of managing and measuring it in useful ways. This article addresses this problem by showing that pension fund managers must manage two types of risk ...
Pension Funds to reflect prevailing market and risk management realities. This has seen the aggregate Pension Fund Assets under management rise to ₦14.42 trillion as of 30 September 2022 according to data from PenCom. It is worthy to state that these funds are invested in varied but q...
Understanding the Role of Pension Funds in the Financial Landscape Pension funds represent a cornerstone of the global financial infrastructure, serving as vital investment entities that manage assets on behalf of employees, with the objective of providing financial security during retirement. These funds...
Plan participants: The workers who will receive a pension upon retirement (and their beneficiaries). Depending on the plan, employees may make contributions during their employment. Investment managers: The professionals hired to manage the funds in the plan’s trust. Each of these parties has di...
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While unit-linked insurance plans (ULIPs) and the National Pension System (NPS) also do the same, they have a higher lock-in period and lesser potential for returns. For instance, ULIPs have a lock-in period of five years. NPS is more of a retirement solution with partial exposure to ...
Public employee pension plans tend to be more generous than private ones. Whereas many pensions use 1% in their formulas, the nation’s largest pension plan, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), pays 2% in many instances.2In that case, if an employee had 35 years o...
We use Sias (2014) approach to decompose the correlation among investment strategies followed by pension funds administrators in the Chilean private pension fund system during the periods 1997-2001 and 2002-2005, and find that most of this correlation is explained by herding behavior. That is, fun...
Pension funds are a type of plan where employers, employees, or a combination of both pay into a fund that provides retirement benefits to employees. Thispensionmoney is invested in a variety offinancial securitiesover many years. The money grows and is paid to employees to provide them with ...