Watson Wyatt Worldwide

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• 20 Geopolitical risk and market behaviour: do terrorist attacks affect market returns?
  by Lucia Carrera and Irene Mussio [Downloadable!]
• 19 Sentiment Risk in Stock Markets
  by Vrinda Gupta [Downloadable!]
• 18 The untapped skilled labor of Latin America
  by Rodrigo Lluberas [Downloadable!]
• 17 India's skilled labor supply: myth or reality?
  by Vrinda Gupta [Downloadable!]
• 16 CEE’s dwindling skilled labor supply: the vagaries of unfavorable demographics
  by Rohit Das and Esha Mendiratta [Downloadable!]
• 15 How does the market value healthcare liabilities?
  by Natalia Aranco and Rodrigo Lluberas [Downloadable!]
• 14 Are US Multinationals Making Rational Offshoring Decisions? A Gravity Model Approach
  by Vrinda Gupta [Downloadable!]
• 13 Labour Supply of Older Workers in the UK: Is there a Link with Pension Provisions?
  by Watson Wyatt Worldwide [Downloadable!]
• 12 The Effect of Pensions on Job Mobility: Empirical Evidence for the UK
  by Rodrigo Lluberas [Downloadable!]
• 11 Are spending policies of European foundations sustainable?
  by Mirko Cardinale, Richard Purcell and Marcus Bishop [Downloadable!]
• 10 For how long will defined benefit liabilities continue to grow?
  by Santiago Caballero [Downloadable!]
• 9 Who has what it takes? Determining the main constraints of labor markets in BRIC and Eastern Europe
  by Irene Mussio, GRS Montevideo [Downloadable!]
• 8 Wealth Shock and Impact of Health on Risk Aversion and Savings
  by Watson Wyatt Worldwide [Downloadable!]
• 7 Reform of the Tax on Reversions of Excess Pension Assets
  by Gaobo Pang, Mark J. Warshawsk [Downloadable!]
• 6 Pension Options Valuation and Hedging Bounds
  by Tao Hao [Downloadable!]
• 5 Option Pricing and Hedging Bounds in Incomplete Markets
  by Tao Hao [Downloadable!]
• 4 Optimizing the Equity-Bond-Annuity Portfolio in Retirement: The Impact of Uncertain Health Expenses
  by Gaobo Pang, Mark J. Warshawsk [Downloadable!]
• 3 Tax-Deferred Savings and Early Retirement
  by Gaobo Pang [Downloadable!]
• 2 With the passage of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 and the Department of Labor regulation regarding qualified default investment alternatives, automatic enrollment and default investments featuring more equities are likely to become more popular. This analysis compares the investment performance of a balanced fund and a lifecycle fund, using average asset allocations observed on the market. Simulations show that the balanced fund is more likely to outperform the lifecycle fund, but its more aggressive approach also leaves plan participants vulnerable to losses as retirement approaches. The lifecycle fund is better at safeguarding wealth in a downward market, while still doing a reasonable job of building wealth. The typical lifecycle fund, however, with a large cash position at retirement, forgoes hedging opportunities for the purchase of immediate life annuities. Neither fund is a sure win over the near-risk-free Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
  by Gaobo Pang, Mark J. Warshawsk [Downloadable!]
• 1 The Retirement Decision: Current Influences on the Timing of Retirement among Older Workers
  by Gaobo Pang, Mark J. Warshawsk, Ben Weitzer [Downloadable!]

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