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Pension Insurance Provider Boosts Worker Productivity, Improves Customer Service
White Papers New pension laws in Norway provided an opportunity for Vital Forsikring ASA, a life and pension insurance company, to boost the number of subscribers to its products. The company decided to build a new pension application based on service-oriented...
[December 15, 2006, 0:00]
Pension Insurance Provider Boosts Worker Productivity, Improves Customer Service
White Papers New pension laws in Norway provided an opportunity for Vital Forsikring ASA, a life and pension insurance company, to boost the number of subscribers to its products. The company decided to build a new pension application based on service-oriented...
[December 15, 2006, 0:00]
Are Firms Or Workers Behind The Shift Away From DB Pension Plan?
White Papers One of the most striking changes in the composition of household retirement savings over the past 20 years has been the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pension plans. This paper estimates the contribution of changing workforce...
[June 22, 2005, 3:00]
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Financial Condition, Potential Risks, And Policy Options
White Papers This paper discusses the important issues of pension insurance and pension plan funding. Those issues are important to workers and firms that participate in defined-benefit pension plans as well as to U.S.taxpayers.
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Do Pension Plans With Participant Investment Choice Teach Households To Hold More Equity?
White Papers This paper finds that households covered by pension plans in which the employee chooses investments are significantly more apt to hold stock outside of their retirement plan than are households with pension plans offering no such choice.The effect...
[September 16, 2003, 3:56]
Defined-Benefit Pension Plans: Current Problems And Future Challenges
White Papers Lawmakers initially became concerned about workers' receipt of promised pension benefits after the failure of several large plans in the 1960s, which eventually led to the enactment in 1974 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
PFA Pension Picks MySAP Customer Relationship Management To Pinpoint Customer Needs
White Papers PFA Pension is the largest pension insurer in Denmark, but the company isn't resting on its laurels. PFA implemented mySAP.com in only eight months - with a focus on mySAP Customer Relationship Management (mySAP CRM) - to collect and maintain...
[July 24, 2006, 0:00]
How Pension Financing Affects Returns To Different Generations
White Papers A pension system designed to be self-sustaining can be financed in two basic ways: on a "funded" or on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. In the United States, private pension plans are required by law to be funded.
[June 29, 2005, 3:00]
Did Pension Plan Accounting Contribute To A Stock Market Bubble?
White Papers During the 1990s, the asset portfolios of defined benefit (DB) pension plans ballooned with the booming stock market. Due to current accounting guidelines, the robust growth in pension assets resulted in a stealthy but substantial boost to the...
[June 22, 2005, 3:00]
Online Pension Tracking Launched In The UK
News According to Nigel Webb, senior manager at Equitable Life, it is the first such system available to UK life assurance and pension policy holders. People more and more want to know the value of their investments.
[October 26, 1998, 16:58]
Web Site Offers Pension Contribution Advice
News The 13 million UK employees who don't have an occupational pension can now work out how much they need to save to guarantee a decent retirement income following today's launch of an online pension calculator.
[January 20, 2003, 10:54]
Pension Plans: Characteristics Of Persons In The Labor Force Without Pension Coverage
White Papers About 53 percent of the employed labor force lacked a pension plan in 1998, a decrease in those without coverage of 5 percentage points from 10 years earlier. This improvement in pension coverage may stem from the economic expansion under way since...
[June 29, 2005, 3:00]
Life-Cycle Saving, Limits On Contributions To DC Pension Plans, And Lifetime Tax Benefits
White Papers This paper addresses three questions related to limits on DC contributions. The first is whether statutory limits on tax-deductible contributions to defined contribution (DC) plans are likely to be binding, focusing on households in various...
[October 20, 2005, 3:00]
Estimating The Costs Of The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
White Papers CBO estimates that the economic costs to the public of PBGC insurance for single-employer plans net of premium collections over the next 10 years is $48 billion. That figure describes the estimated net present value of the financial resources that...
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Access To Locked-In Accounts: We Want Your Feedback
White Papers Alberta's current pension legislation requires that if plan members leave their employer and take their pension money out of the pension plan, the funds must be placed in a Locked-In Retirement Account (LIRA).
[June 17, 2005, 3:00]
Customer Service Driven By New Enterprise Portal
White Papers PFA is one of the leading suppliers of corporate pension schemes in Denmark. PFA Pension A/S wanted to create a next-generation customer portal providing customers with improved offerings, adding value, and enhanced customer loyalty through...
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
Lost Standard Life CD Was Unencrypted
News A lost compact disc containing the personal pension details of 15,000 people was not encrypted. One form of pension payment is an Age Related Rebate (ARR). Funds are paid into the accounts of individuals' pension providers by HMRC electronically...
[November 6, 2007, 11:03]
Azerbaijan Republic Modernises Its Social Security System With HP Technology
White Papers When the Azerbaijan Republic gained independence, it inherited a slightly modified version of the pension system operated by the former USSR. To rectify this situation, SSPF launched ambitious projects for reforming of the pension system.
[February 13, 2007, 16:25]
Inland Revenue IT 'glitch' Costs £15bn
News Around ten million people face a state pension shortfall because of a glitch in the Inland Revenue's computer systems. As a result it is mainly low-paid workers whose NI contributions did not meet the £4,625 minimum who will now need to pay an...
[May 15, 2003, 12:12]
PGGM Realizes Considerable Cost Savings In Human Resources And Payroll Processes
White Papers The company's pension fund provides former and current employees in the healthcare and social work sector with a comprehensive and wide-ranging pension package, at as low a price as possible. PGGM manages the financial future of more than 1.9...
[November 3, 2007, 0:00]
