Old-Age Crisis and Pension Reform. Where do we stand?

Marek Szczepański

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Monografie prezentują rezultaty badań wpływu globalnego kryzysu finansowego z lat 2008-2009 na funkcjonowanie i perspektywy rozwoju zakładowych systemów emerytalnych w Polsce i na świecie (w krajach Unii Europejskiej oraz w wybranych państwach poz...

ISBN/ISSN:

978-83-7775-254-8

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Wydawnictwo Politechniki Poznańskiej

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2013

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Foreword6
Acknowledgments8
Przedmowa10
Part I. Implementation of Pension Reforms in European Countries12
1. GERARD HUGHES Have Personal Retirement Savings Accounts Achieved Their Objectives in Ireland?14
2. JIM STEWART The World Bank and Pension Reform: Some Current Issues32
3. GABRIELLA SJÖGREN LINDQUIST, ESKIL WADENSJÖ Income Distribution Among Those of 65 Years and Older in Sweden44
4. MARIA CLARA MURTEIRA The Reform of Pensions in Portugal: A Critical Assessment78
5. MACIEJ ŻUKOWSKI Pension Reforms in Poland and in Other CEE Countries 1998-2012100
6. JÁN ŠEBO TOMÁŠ VIRDZEK Political Risk and Pension Funds’ Performance – the Case of Slovakia108
7. ADAM SAMBORSKI Pension Funds Governance124
8. MAREK SZCZEPAŃSKI, TOMASZ BRZĘCZEK Risk Reform in Poland and the Efficiency of Occupational Pension Schemes140
Part II. Pension reforms in non-European countries156
9. JOHN A TURNER, DANA M MUIR. Financial Literacy and Financial Advice: Weak Links in Social Security Privatization158
10. ALBERTO M RAMÍREZ DE JURADO F., DENISE GÓMEZ—HERNÁNDEZ. Comparative Study of the Efficiency of Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in Continental America178
11. YI-FAN YANG, TAI-XI XIAO. Population Aging, Demographic Dividend and Raising the Retirement Age in China: Empirical Simulation and Policy Choice190
About the Authors216
About the European Network for Research on Supplementary Pensions (ENRSP)220
Spis treści222

FOREWORD

Theevaluationoftheeffectsofpensionreformsintroducedattheturnofthe

centuryinmanycountriesrequirestime.Oneoftheimpetusesforchangeinpen-

sionsystemswasthefamousWorldBankReportpublishedin1994,titled:“Avert-

ingtheOld-AgeCrisis-PoliciestoProtecttheOldandPromoteGrowth”.Oneof

themainideaspromotedinthisreportwastoreplacetraditionalpensionschemes

basedonagenerationalcontract(PAYG)bymulti-pillarsystems.Eachpillar

shouldplayitsownroleandthetotalofpensionpillarscontributestothethree

basicfunctionsofpensionschemes:1)consumptionsmoothing(facilitatinglife-

-cyclefinancialplanning),2)insuringagainstpovertyriskinold-age,3)sharing

macroeconomicriskacrossgenerations.Muti-pillarconstructionofpensionssys-

temspromotedinthereportwasunderstoodasadefactopartialortotalprivatiza-

tionofpublicsystemssupplementedbyadditionalpillars(occupationalpension

plansorindividualretirementsavings).

Theintroductionofsegmentsofpre-fundedpillarstomandatorypublicpension

schemeswasaresponsetotheprocessofdemographicagingtakingplacewithin

mostcountriesintheworld.Solutionsofthistype,basedonthepartialortotal

privatizationofpensionsystemsinLatinAmerica(e.g.Chile),wererecommended

topost-socialistcountriesbytheauthorsoftheWorldBankReport.Inadditionto

providingalong-termfinancialsustainabilityofpensionsystems,theywerealsoto

supportcapitalmarketdevelopmentandeconomicgrowth.

Theprivatizationofpensionschemes,whichbeganasalocaltrendinLatin

AmericaandCentralandEasternEuropeinthe1990s,hasseriouslyaffectedthe

debateontherecommendedpathsofpensionreformsintheUKandothercoun-

triesaroundtheworld.

Theglobalfinancialandeconomiccrisiswhichstartedin2008intheU.S.has,

atleastpartially,haltedthetrendtowardsprivatizationofpublicpensionsystems.

What'smore,inmanypost-socialistcountriestherewasapartialorcompletere-

ductionofthepre-fundedpillar(pensionfunds)andareturntothePAYGfinanc-

ing.Also,lessradicalreformsofaparametricratherthansystemiccharacterinthe

“old”EuropeanUnionhavenotalwaysbroughttheintendedresults.Theglobal

crisishasadverselyaffectedtheconditionofpensionsavingsinadditionaland

supplementarypensionschemes,buttheforceoftheimpacthasvariedindifferent

countries.Itappears,therefore,thatnotonlydemographics(agingpopulation),but

alsoaturbulencedifficulttopredictinthefinancialmarketscouldposeaserious

threattothefinancialstabilityofapensionsystemandtheleveloffinancialsecu-

rityforfutureandcurrentretirees.

AgoodopportunitytoassesstheresultsofpensionreformsintheEUmember

statesandintheUnitedStatesandChinatookplaceattheinternationalpension

conferencecalled:“Old-AgeCrisisandPensionReform.Wheredowestand?”,

organizedbytheDepartmentofEconomics,FacultyofEngineering,atPoznań