BACKGROUND Hearing difficulties are a large public health problem. Knowledge is scarce regarding risk of disability pension among people who have been sickness absent due to these difficulties. METHODS A cohort including all 4,687,756 individuals living in Sweden in 2005, aged 20-64, and not on disability or old-age pension, was followed through 2009. Incidence rate ratios (RR) of disability ...

Even risky pension sponsors could offer essentially riskless pension promises by contributing a sufficient level of resources to their pension trust funds and by investing those resources in fixed-income securities designed to deliver their payoffs just as pension obligations are coming due. However, almost no firm has chosen to fund its plan in this manner. We study the optimal funding choice ...

The aging of the population in Japan is a serious problem, and the reform of the public pension system is a major political issue. Although the 2004 pension reform was enforced in Japan to ensure a sustainable pension system in such an aging society, people remain quite apprehensive about the pension system. They believe that the current situation wherein a considerable number of people are not...

This paper investigates the determinants of public pension plan risk-taking behavior using the percentage of total plan assets invested in the equity markets and the pension asset beta as measures of investment risk. We find that government accounting standards strongly affect public fund investment risk, as higher return assumptions (used to discount pension liabilities) are associated with hi...

The objective of this paper is to explain the reluctance of pension fund sponsors to terminate overfunded defined benefit pension plans (hereafter, pension plans). The paper extends the “pension put” option-theoretic approach of Sharpe [1976] and Bicksler and Chen [1985] to a “pension call” model to describe a general phenomenon of the unwillingness to terminate overfunded plans by their sponso...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...

The University has 3 active pension plans. Faculty, Excluded Faculty, Professional/Managerial staff, College Academic/Research Group and Ontario Nurses Association employees participate in the Professional Pension Plan [2]. UGFSEA Units 1 & 2 and OSSTF/TARA District 35 members enrolled on or after October 1, 2014 participate in the Non-Professional Pension Plan [3]. All other eligible employees...