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    The time to lead is now: the adoption of ESG analysis by Asian government pension funds

    The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2009
    Asia's pension funds are among the largest and fastest growing pools of capital in the region and their influence in the capital markets will continue to grow, especially as asset allocations diversify.
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    An aging world: 2008

    U.S. Census Bureau, 2009
    Population ageing has emerged as a major demographic worldwide trend. On the one hand the reality of global ageing and increased longevity represents a triumph of medical, social, and economic advances. But on the other, population ageing has created significant challenges to health care systems, and existing models of social support, pensions and insurance.
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    Building a society for all ages

    Building a society for all ages, UK Government, 2009
    UK Government strategy paper to designed to help Britain prepare for our ageing society. The paper highlights the need for a cultural shift, to build a vision of a society for all ages – where people are not defined by their age, and prejudice does not prevent harnessing the skills and experience of the older population.
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    Is Latin America retreating from individual retirement accounts?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2009
    In 1981, Chile initiated old-age pension reforms that introduced mandatory funded individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and moved away from public systems. Ten other Latin American countries followed the Chilean model in the 1990s.
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    Can the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union afford to grow old?

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2009
    The demographic transition in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) displays unusual characteristics.The transition now underway is rapid compared with international experience, and emigration is playing a particularly large role.  By 2060, ECCU pension funds’ expenditure will exceed contributions by over 6.2 percent of GDP, based on pension funds’ actuarial projections.
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    Ageing Asia’s looming pension crisis

    Asian Development Bank, 2009
    Due to population ageing, weakening of family-based support, and related factors, old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of the pension systems in eight East and Southeast Asian countries, identifying their major structural weaknesses, and suggesting some specific policy directions for them.
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    Private saving in India and Malaysia compared: the role of financial liberalization and expected pension benefits

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009
    This paper compares the evolution of private saving in India and Malaysia, and analyses how policy changes in the financial sectors and pension systems help explain differences in their saving performance. It assesses whether the ‘forced saving’ nature of the pension systems in India and Malaysia had any effect on voluntary saving by the private sector.
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    Economic implications and sustainability of micropensions in the era of pension reforms in India

    International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2009
    The new pension system (NPS) introduced by the government of India is South Asia’s first DC (defined contribution) pension scheme.  It provides individual retirement accounts, product choices, professional fund management by competing private fund managers and portability through centralised record keeping and administration.
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    Pension systems for the informal sector in Asia

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2009
    The unprecedented speed at which Asian populations are ageing requires a rapid forward looking response from governments in the region to provide protection against the risk of poverty in old age.
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    Taking the long view

    Pensions Institute, 2009
    Governments are among the few agencies that can help the private sector hedge against the increasing problem of aggregate longevity risk. The authors of this paper urge governments to issue longevity bonds as soon as possible.

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