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Diss. (Sammanfattning) Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet, 2008. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

In October 2012, the United Kingdom adopted nation-wide automatic enrolment into workplace pension schemes. Automatic enrolment on the current scale is a major undertaking but it is also an untested policy and it is important that we understand how individuals are adapting to these radical changes in pension provision. There is currently a lack of research into the dynamic decision-making processes that lie behind some individuals' deviation from workplace pension scheme default settings. This exploratory study investigates the importance of financial planning, social relations, and the role of the employer to default adherence and deviation. The embedded case study comprises qualitative interviews with 25 middle-income employees of a large UK utility company. Participants were selected on the basis of socio-economic similarity but had variable behavioural responses to the default settings of their workplace pension scheme. The study uncovered different motives underpinning individuals' reaction to membership defaults, contribution defaults, and investment fund defaults. Continued membership following automatic enrolment was driven by social pressures. Subsequent to enrolment, individuals tried to achieve a balance between current expenditure and saving for retirement. Property ownership and mortgage debt redemption were prioritised over additional pension scheme investment. The life-stage of the individual influenced how they reacted to the contribution default settings - default adherence appeared to be linked to unsettled personal lives and career insecurity. Motives for increasing contributions were household formation, parental ageing, and relationship breakdown. Saving strategies were influenced by parental accumulation of retirement assets and parental financial literacy. Employer-matching contributions were implicated in participants' willingness to increase pension contributions beyond the minimum default; investment in share option schemes was offered as justification for limiting contributions to the maximum match. Employer endorsement effects, driven by trust in the employer's intentions, were strongly implicated in fund default adherence and in investment diversification strategies: participants pointed to the employer's promotion of the pension scheme and employer-provided financial seminars. Advice from older colleagues was also cited as influential in directing retirement savings behaviour. The research concludes that the employment context is crucial to understanding how middle-income employees react to the default settings in their workplace pension scheme.

This thesis deals with problematics of pension schemes.First part contains characteristics of pensions schemes, influence of demographic faktors on this product and short overview about development in Czech Republic. I expose reasons why is need to reform pension system. In the final part, there is described the proposed pension reform.

The impact of population ageing on the social budgets of the future is a phenomenon confronting many of the world's wealthiest and most advanced nations. The impending retirement of the 'baby boomers' has raised concerns about the inadequacy of budgetary frameworks (both conceptual and real) to fulfil the financial commitments of demographically sensitive programs, namely old age pensions. Pension schemes represent, by far, the largest social welfare commitment of first world nations. Old age pensions are also demographically sensitive. Furthermore, pension systems play a crucial role in alleviating poverty, in recognising the previous contribution of an individual and in maintaining of the social and economic wellbeing of democratic polities. The financial stability of pension schemes and the ability of governments to meet future commitments will become significant issues of public policy as the pressures from population ageing intensify. Yet, committing resources, or budgeting, for longer-term pressures is an inherently problematic exercise both from an intellectual and a practical perspective. For long-term resourcing to be successful it requires perfect foresight and a level of political commitment that typically eludes most politicians and governments. Longer or medium-term budgetary pressures are often ignored or avoided until they impact on the immediate chances of either fiscal or electoral success. As such, societies face the prospect of looming financial burdens, but only have a box of short-term tools at their disposal and a limited body of scholarship to guide them through this ticking political 'time bomb'. This research tackles a significant omission in the existing literature on budgeting, public policy and social welfare, by proposing a conceptual framework for the anticipation, conceptualisation and analysis of future budget pressures. In doing so, it brings together analytical frameworks of government budgeting and social policy from a number of disciplinary areas and weaves them into a conceptual framework that allows for diagnostic and prescriptive analysis of budgetary pressures within a particular policy/spending area. The framework is also compatible with existing budgetary frameworks and decision-making processes. Through the analysis of the old age pension systems in Australia, Canada and Sweden this thesis makes an important contribution to the understanding of how demographic transition will impact on the future stability of pension schemes. The thesis contends that ageing populations will place significant pressure on each pillar of the pension system to meet its future financial commitments. This pressure will, in turn, have important implications for national budgetary processes and old age pension policy over the coming decades. In particular, governments will be required to implement a range of techniques that sit both within and beyond the traditional bounds of most budget processes. It will be imperative for researchers to explore the complexities and political possibilities of budget reform and to search for ways in which the longer-term needs of society can be adequately satisfied through the budget process.

This thesis deals with problematics of pension schemes. First part contains characteristics of pensions schemes and short overview about deveplopment of this product in Czech Republic. In following parts, problems of pension schemes are described and characteristics of its successor pension packages are listed. In the final part, there is described life insurance as a main competitor to pension schemes and those two products are thoroughly compared.

This thesis deals with the comparison of funded pension schemes in United Kingdom and in Slovakia. The aim of the thesis is the classification of pension systems and consequently the characteristic of pension system's structure in United Kingdom and in Slovakia. The thesis also has for the other goal to carry out the comparison of funded pension schemes of both countries in terms of the most significant factors which influence finances invested in pension funds. The Thesis consists of four sections. The first chapter is devoted to the characteristics of construction of basic pension system types, the way of their funding, types of pension plans and structure of three tier pension system. The second and the third chapter is focused on pension systems of United Kingdom and Slovakia, demographic changes in both countries, previous and present forms of the system, changes and intended reforms. The fourth chapter comprises of the comparison of the investment portfolio structure, rate of return, costs and charges of pension funds.

O objetivo deste trabalho é verificar o impacto na alteração do regime previdenciário de repartição para um modelo misto, através da criação do fundo complementar previdenciário para os novos servidores federais no Brasil. O estudo apresenta os diagnósticos e os conceitos e modelos de previdência adotados no Brasil e sintetiza as experiências de países latino-americanos que reformaram seus respectivos regimes previdenciários com a finalidade de reduzir o déficit com os inativos. No caso brasileiro, após a promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988 foram editadas duas Emendas Constitucionais (a de nº 20 de 1998 e a de nº 41 de 2003) que possibilitaram a criação, em 2012, da entidade fechada de previdência complementar, para os novos servidores públicos federais, chamada FUNPRESP. O estudo conclui que com o surgimento deste fundo, será possível equalizar os valores dos benefícios pagos entre os regimes geral e próprio. Nesse sentido, o teto dos benefícios de aposentadorias pagos do regime próprio dos servidores federais estará indexado ao valor do teto do regime geral de previdência social. Assim, caso o servidor decida suplementar ganhos acima deste teto, para fins de aposentadoria, ele deverá aderir ao fundo e contribuir, sobre o salário participação, em uma conta individualizada. Desta forma, o governo buscou garantir equidade nos pagamentos de benefícios entre os regimes de previdência geral e próprio, além de tentar reduzir o déficit das contas públicas previdenciárias no longo prazo. / The objective of the present paper is to check the impact on changing from the actual social security of federal pensions to a mixed model, through a creation of a defined contribution pension plan for new federal public employees in Brazil. The study show off diagnostics and exhibit the concepts of pension models adopted in Brazil and brief international experiences of countries that have altered their social pension schemes in Latin America, with object to reduce government deficits of inactive. In the Brazilian case, after the Federal Constitution of 1988, Constitutional Amendments were enacted (nº 20 of 1998 and nº 41 of 2003) which enabled the creation, in 2012, of a complementary retirement plan for new federal public employees, called FUNPRESP. The study concludes than with the emergence of this fund, it will be possible to equalize the amounts of benefits paid between pension schemes. Thereby, the remuneration limit of the benefits paid to the actual system of federal employees pensions will be indexed to the remuneration limit of the general social security. Therefore, if the public employee decides complement gains above this compensation limit, for pension purposes, they should choose to contribute with a quota to an individualized pension plan. So, the government tried to ensure equity in benefit payments between the pension schemes, as well as tried to reduce the deficit of the social security public finances in the long term.

O objetivo deste trabalho é verificar o impacto na alteração do regime previdenciário de repartição para um modelo misto, através da criação do fundo complementar previdenciário para os novos servidores federais no Brasil. O estudo apresenta os diagnósticos e os conceitos e modelos de previdência adotados no Brasil e sintetiza as experiências de países latino-americanos que reformaram seus respectivos regimes previdenciários com a finalidade de reduzir o déficit com os inativos. No caso brasileiro, após a promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988 foram editadas duas Emendas Constitucionais (a de nº 20 de 1998 e a de nº 41 de 2003) que possibilitaram a criação, em 2012, da entidade fechada de previdência complementar, para os novos servidores públicos federais, chamada FUNPRESP. O estudo conclui que com o surgimento deste fundo, será possível equalizar os valores dos benefícios pagos entre os regimes geral e próprio. Nesse sentido, o teto dos benefícios de aposentadorias pagos do regime próprio dos servidores federais estará indexado ao valor do teto do regime geral de previdência social. Assim, caso o servidor decida suplementar ganhos acima deste teto, para fins de aposentadoria, ele deverá aderir ao fundo e contribuir, sobre o salário participação, em uma conta individualizada. Desta forma, o governo buscou garantir equidade nos pagamentos de benefícios entre os regimes de previdência geral e próprio, além de tentar reduzir o déficit das contas públicas previdenciárias no longo prazo. / The objective of the present paper is to check the impact on changing from the actual social security of federal pensions to a mixed model, through a creation of a defined contribution pension plan for new federal public employees in Brazil. The study show off diagnostics and exhibit the concepts of pension models adopted in Brazil and brief international experiences of countries that have altered their social pension schemes in Latin America, with object to reduce government deficits of inactive. In the Brazilian case, after the Federal Constitution of 1988, Constitutional Amendments were enacted (nº 20 of 1998 and nº 41 of 2003) which enabled the creation, in 2012, of a complementary retirement plan for new federal public employees, called FUNPRESP. The study concludes than with the emergence of this fund, it will be possible to equalize the amounts of benefits paid between pension schemes. Thereby, the remuneration limit of the benefits paid to the actual system of federal employees pensions will be indexed to the remuneration limit of the general social security. Therefore, if the public employee decides complement gains above this compensation limit, for pension purposes, they should choose to contribute with a quota to an individualized pension plan. So, the government tried to ensure equity in benefit payments between the pension schemes, as well as tried to reduce the deficit of the social security public finances in the long term.

O objetivo deste trabalho é verificar o impacto na alteração do regime previdenciário de repartição para um modelo misto, através da criação do fundo complementar previdenciário para os novos servidores federais no Brasil. O estudo apresenta os diagnósticos e os conceitos e modelos de previdência adotados no Brasil e sintetiza as experiências de países latino-americanos que reformaram seus respectivos regimes previdenciários com a finalidade de reduzir o déficit com os inativos. No caso brasileiro, após a promulgação da Constituição Federal de 1988 foram editadas duas Emendas Constitucionais (a de nº 20 de 1998 e a de nº 41 de 2003) que possibilitaram a criação, em 2012, da entidade fechada de previdência complementar, para os novos servidores públicos federais, chamada FUNPRESP. O estudo conclui que com o surgimento deste fundo, será possível equalizar os valores dos benefícios pagos entre os regimes geral e próprio. Nesse sentido, o teto dos benefícios de aposentadorias pagos do regime próprio dos servidores federais estará indexado ao valor do teto do regime geral de previdência social. Assim, caso o servidor decida suplementar ganhos acima deste teto, para fins de aposentadoria, ele deverá aderir ao fundo e contribuir, sobre o salário participação, em uma conta individualizada. Desta forma, o governo buscou garantir equidade nos pagamentos de benefícios entre os regimes de previdência geral e próprio, além de tentar reduzir o déficit das contas públicas previdenciárias no longo prazo. / The objective of the present paper is to check the impact on changing from the actual social security of federal pensions to a mixed model, through a creation of a defined contribution pension plan for new federal public employees in Brazil. The study show off diagnostics and exhibit the concepts of pension models adopted in Brazil and brief international experiences of countries that have altered their social pension schemes in Latin America, with object to reduce government deficits of inactive. In the Brazilian case, after the Federal Constitution of 1988, Constitutional Amendments were enacted (nº 20 of 1998 and nº 41 of 2003) which enabled the creation, in 2012, of a complementary retirement plan for new federal public employees, called FUNPRESP. The study concludes than with the emergence of this fund, it will be possible to equalize the amounts of benefits paid between pension schemes. Thereby, the remuneration limit of the benefits paid to the actual system of federal employees pensions will be indexed to the remuneration limit of the general social security. Therefore, if the public employee decides complement gains above this compensation limit, for pension purposes, they should choose to contribute with a quota to an individualized pension plan. So, the government tried to ensure equity in benefit payments between the pension schemes, as well as tried to reduce the deficit of the social security public finances in the long term.