Understanding Pensions

ISBN-13: 9780415407052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 184 str.

Martin Sullivan;Martin Sullivan

Opis

With birth rates falling at the same time that average age is rising in the developed world, the pensions time bomb is ticking louder than ever. Understanding how pensions work, their history, and their future is absolutely essential.

This book thoroughly explains to readers the unique concepts and terminology which underpin pensions. Focusing firstly on the rationale for pensions and their evolution, before moving on to an explanation of the latest controversies regarding pensions. The glossary of pensions terminology in the final section of the book virtually ensures its place on many academic bookshelves.

This timely volume is an extremely useful contribution to this important issue. Of use to policy-makers as much as to students and academics of finance and public policy, Understanding Pensions should prove to be a popular addition to the literature.

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.