The Pension Challenge. Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance

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The Pension Challenge. Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Roland Eisen
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Title: The Pension Challenge. Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security.(Book review)
Author: Roland Eisen
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 73 Issue: 4 Page: 744(3)

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The Pension Challenge: Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security

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Note for the poor.......2004-07-09

A lot of the technical detail in this book can be obtained for free from the working papers on the Wharton School Pension Reasearch Council web site - http://prc.wharton.upenn/prc

The Pension Challenge.......2004-05-08

The publication of this book is timely insofar as it explores ways of enhancing retirement security in the volatile financial environment many employees find themselves in. It is the first in a new series produced by the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with Oxford University Press.

The Pension Challenge.......2004-05-08

On the global side, there is a chapter on money-back guarantees in individual pension accounts, featuring Germany. There are also chapters on retirement guarantees in compulsory defined contribution systems and in voluntary defined contribution plans, with the latter covering:
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