Understanding Pensions

ISBN-13: 9780415273893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 184 str.

M. Sullivan; Martin Sullivan

Opis

Many novel approaches have been considered for dealing with computationally difficult discrete optimization problems. Such approaches include interior point methods, semidefinite programming techniques, and global optimization. More efficient computational algorithms have been developed and larger problem instances of hard discrete problems have been solved. This progress is due in part to these novel approaches, but also to new computing facilities and massive parallelism. This volume contains the papers presented at the workshop on Novel Approaches to Hard Discrete Optimization. The articles cover a spectrum of issues regarding computationally hard discrete problems.

Spis treści

Part 1: Pensions: Principles and Practice 1. Pensions and Pension Schemes 2. Public Pensions 3. Changes and Challenges 4. Population Ageing in Britain 5. Occupational Pensions 6. Public Sector Pensions 7. Final Salary Woes 8. Individual Pensions 9. Pensioners' Incomes Part 2: Pensions: Issues and Controversies 1. Population Ageing in Perspective 2. Living and Working for Longer 3. Of Ponzi Schemes and Pension Funds 4. Taxing Funded Private Pensions 5. Annuities and Annuitization 6. The Maxwell Affair 7. The Perils of Self-Investment 8. Solvency, Accounting and Occupational Scheme Closures 9. A Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation for the UK 10. The Personal Pension Mis-Selling Scandal 11. The Equitable Life Fiasco 12. Closing the Pension Savings Gap 13. Simplifying Pensions Part 3: An A-Z of Pensions

O autorze

Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.