Pension Fund Risk Management Financial and Actuarial Modeling

Financial Risk Management
Quantifying Investment Risk in Defined Benefit Pension Plans, Shane Francis Whelan

Investment Decision in Defined Contribution Pension Schemes Incorporating Incentive Mechanism, Bill Shih-Chieh Chang and Evan Ya-Wen Hwang

Performance and Risk Measurement for Pension Funds, Auke Plantinga

Optimal Investment for a Pension Fund under Inflation Risk, Aihua Zhang

Pension Funds under Inflation Risk, Aihua Zhang

Mean-Variance Management in Stochastic Aggregated Pension Funds with Nonconstant Interest Rates, Ricardo Josa Fombellida

Dynamic Asset and Liability Management, Ricardo Matos Chaim

Pension Fund Asset Allocation under Uncertainty, Wilma de Groot and Laurens Swinkels

Different Stakeholder’s Risks in DB Pension Funds, Theo Kocken and Anne de Kreuk

Financial Risk in Pension Funds: Application of Value at Risk Methodology, Marcin Fedor

Pension Scheme Asset Allocation with Taxation Arbitrage, Risk Sharing, and Default Insurance, Charles Sutcliffe

Technical Risk Management
Longevity Risk and Private Pensions, Pablo Antolin

Actuarial Funding of Dismissal and Resignation Risks, Werner Hürlimann

The Retirement Decision: Current Influences on the Timing of Retirement among Older Workers, Gaobo Pang, Mark J. Warshawsky, and Ben Weitzer

Insuring Defined Benefit Plans in Germany, Ferdinand Mager and Christian Schmieder

The Securitization of Longevity Risk in Pension Schemes: The Case of Italy, Susanna Levantesi, Massimiliano Menzietti, and Tiziana Torri

Regulation and Solvency Topics
Corporate Risk Management and Pension Asset Allocation, Yong Li

Competition among Pressure Groups over the Determination of UK Pension Fund Accounting Rules, Paul John Marcel Klumpes and Stuart Manson

Improving the Equity, Transparency, and Solvency of Pay-as-You-Go Pension Systems: NDCs, the AB, and ABMs, Carlos Vidal-Meliá, María del Carmen Boado-Penas, and Ole Settergren

Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds in the Netherlands, Dirk Broeders and Marc Pröpper

Policy Considerations for Hedging Risks in Mandatory Defined Contribution Pensions through Better Default Options, Gregorio Impavido

Pension Risk and Household Saving over the Life Cycle, David A. Love and Paul A. Smith

International Experience in Pension Fund Risk Management
Public and Private DC Pension Schemes, Termination Indemnities, and Optimal Funding of Pension System in Italy, Marco Micocci, Giovanni B. Masala, and Giuseppina Cannas

Efficiency Analysis in the Spanish Pension Funds Industry: A Frontier Approach, Carmen-Pilar Martí-Ballester and Diego Prior-Jiménez

Pension Funds under Investment Constraints: An Assessment of the Opportunity Cost to the Greek Social Security System, Nikolaos T. Milonas, George A. Papachristou, and Theodore A. Roupas

Pension Fund Deficits and Stock Market Efficiency: Evidence from the

United Kingdom, Weixi Liu and Ian Tonks

Return-Based Style Analysis Applied to Spanish Balanced Pension Plans, Laura Andreu, Cristina Ortiz, José Luis Sarto, and Luis Vicente

Index

Biography

Marco Micocci is a professor of financial mathematics and actuarial science in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cagliari in Italy.

Greg N. Gregoriou is a professor of finance in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh.

Giovanni Batista Masala is a researcher of mathematical methods in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cagliari in Italy.

A strength of this approach is the variety of angles and insights which it provides — there were no shortage of ideas. … This book is perfect for those who would like a broad view of the current landscape or who have a question that is specifically tackled by one of the chapters … this book covered a lot of interesting material and concepts, and had some impressive chapters. … well worth dipping into.
—John Hatchett, Annals of Actuarial Science, Vol. 5, 2011