Pension Research Council Blog
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The Pension Research Council's curated blog features insights from the industry's leading professionals. The Pension Research Council at the Wharton School is a research center at the University of Pennsylvania committed to generating knowledge and debate on key policy issues affecting pensions and other employee benefits. For more than 65 years, the Council has sponsored high-level..
Pension Research Council Blog
11M ago
People believing they will live longer are more likely to buy annuities, so educating near-retirees about chances of surviving to older ages could help motivate annuitization, report researchers Karolos Arapakis and Gal Wettstein of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College ..read more
Pension Research Council Blog
11M ago
Workplace changes, economic shifts, technological advances, evolving family dynamics, and the aging population are among the megatrends reshaping work, retirement, and financial security, explains Anna Rappaport of the Society of Actuaries, via the RetireSecure blog ..read more
Pension Research Council Blog
1y ago
New OECD report proposes new HR policies to benefit and retain experienced workers, cutting employer costs and helping manage challenges of multigenerational workplaces, finds Boston College Professor Joseph F. Quinn. Via RetireSecure Blog ..read more
Pension Research Council Blog
1y ago
Should chronological or biological (risk-adjusted) age drive retirement claiming? Longevity research suggests the latter, per Prof. Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, via RetireSecure blog ..read more
Pension Research Council Blog
1y ago
Requiring high school financial education affects near-term behaviors for young adults entering financial independence yet has little effect on long-term savings and investing, explain Profs. Carly Urban of Montana State University and Melody Harvey of University of Wisconsin-Madison, via RetireSecure Blog ..read more
Pension Research Council Blog
1y ago
Understanding life expectancy and longevity risk improves retirement related decision making including how people save, invest, and decumulate assets to avoid running out of money in old age find Profs. Abigail Hurwitz and Orly Sade of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Olivia S. Mitchell of Wharton via RetireSecure blog ..read more
Pension Research Council Blog
2y ago
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely have longer-term economic effects, as people fearing financial fragility are less likely to save more for retirement or to annuitize their retirement savings: new research from Abigail Hurwitz, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Orly Sade ..read more
Pension Research Council Blog
2y ago
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations in institutional investing have evolved over the past decades. Wharton Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell and Shankar Parameshwaran look at the ESG topics raised at the recent PRC Symposium ..read more
Pension Research Council Blog
2y ago
If pension funds are to incorporate ESG principles in their investment decisions, they must consider several risks and challenges. Wharton Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell and Shankar Parameshwaran provide takeaways from the PRC 2021 Symposium ..read more