04647nam 2200649Ia 450 991046401750332120181114215045.01-4623-9411-61-4527-3997-81-4518-7298-41-282-84365-69786612843655(CKB)3170000000055304(EBL)1608364(SSID)ssj0001477328(PQKBManifestationID)11832938(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001477328(PQKBWorkID)11449496(PQKB)11079741(OCoLC)712987807(MiAaPQ)EBC1608364(EXLCZ)99317000000005530420100609d2009 uf 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHow the financial crisis affects pensions and insurance and why the impacts matter[electronic resource] /prepared by Gregorio Impavido and Ian Tower[Washington, D.C.] International Monetary Fund, Monetary and Capital Markets Dept.20091 online resource (58 p.)IMF working paper ;WP/09/151"July 2009."1-4519-1727-9 Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Role of Pension Plans and Insurance Companies; III. Key Pensions and Insurance Characteristics; Figures; 1. Role of Financial Assets in Overall; 2. Assets in DB and DC Private Plans (OECD and Latin America); IV. The Nature of Assets and Liabilities; 3. Pension Assets as Percent of GDP in OECD Countries (2007); 4. Pension Assets as Percent of GDP in Latin American Countries (06/2008); 5. Asset Allocation of OECD Private Pension plans (2006); 6. Asset Allocation (average) of Latin American Pension Plans (06/2008); Boxes1. Insurance Companies' Balance Sheets: The Importance of ALMV. Sources of Vulnerability; 2. Insurance Companies Accounting and Solvency Requirements; Asset shocks; 7. Pension Fund Returns in Selected OECD Countries (January-October 2008); Tables; 1. Asset Changes in Corporate Plans (Major Stock Indices); 8. Corporate Plan Assets in Major Stock Indices (January 2007-April 2009); 2. Asset Changes in Mandatory DC Plans; 3. Insurance Sector Announced Losses and Capital-raising to Date; 9. CDS Spreads in the Insurance Sector; 10. Bloomberg Insurance and Bank Indices; Liability shocks4. Liability Changes in Corporate Plans (Major Stock Indices)11. Corporate Plan Liabilities in Major Stock Indices (January 2007-April 2009); VI. Risk Sharing and Transmission Channels to the Rest of the Economy; A. Pensions; 5. Funding Ratio Changes in Corporate Plans (Major Stock Indices); 12. Changes in Accounting Funding Levels of Corporate Plans of Major Stock Indices (January 2007-April 2009); 13. Funding Ratios of U.S. State and Local Plans; 6. Composition of Household Financial Balance Sheet in Select OECD; 7. 2008 Financial Crisis and Multi-funds in Latin America14. Minimum Pension Guarantees 8. Public Debt, Pension Spending and Implicit Pension Debt for Thirty Five Low and Middle Income Countries for Various Years During the end-1990s and 2000; B. Insurance Companies; VII. Policy Conclusions; References; Annexes; I. Liability Valuation Rules in Select OECD Countries; II. "Simpler" Presentation of FAS 87This paper discusses the key sources of vulnerabilities for pension plans and insurance companies in light of the global financial crisis of 2008. It also discusses how these institutional investors transit shocks to the rest of the financial sector and economy. The crisis has re-ignited the policy debate on key issues such as: 1) the need for countercyclical funding and solvency rules; 2) the tradeoffs implied in marked based valuation rules; 3) the need to protect contributors towards retirement from excessive market volatility; 4) the need to strengthen group supervision for large complex fIMF working paper ;WP/09/151.Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009PensionsInsuranceElectronic books.Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.Pensions.Insurance.Impavido Gregorio883152Tower Ian936187International Monetary Fund.Monetary and Capital Markets Dept.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464017503321How the financial crisis affects pensions and insurance and why the impacts matter2108921UNINA