Description
Book SynopsisThis book is about retirement income security. This income security is provided by national public pensions, corporate pensions, and individual and reverse mortgages. However, these systems vary greatly from country to country and, in many countries, do not provide sufficient coverage. Ensuring income security in old age is an important issue that must be resolved in the rapidly aging environment of the world.
From the perspective of financial consumers, this book cross-sectionally surveys public pensions, corporate pensions, individual pensions and reverse mortgages and compares them among many important nations. This gives many implications from the perspective of designing an overall income security for each individual. In addition, it presents many of the issues needed for these sustainable and comprehensive income security.
Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION
Ch. 1. The National Pension Systems and Financial Consumers: An international comparative perspective on the key linkages
PART II: COUNTRY CHAPTERS
Countries with pension systems at a mature stage
Ch. 2 - Retirement Income Security in the United States:An Overview of the Public and Private Retirement System
Ch. 3 Retirement Income Security in the Japan: An Overview of the Public and Private Pension System
Ch. 4: The Italian Pension System
Ch. 5: The Polish Pension System
Ch. 6: The Swiss Pension System
Countries in the establishment phase of the pension system
Ch. 7: The Korean Pension System
Ch. 8 - Preparing for Rainy Days at the Old Age in Singapore –
Ch. 9: The Chinese Pension System
Countries in the Institutional Entry Phase
Ch.10: The Bangladesh Pension System
Ch. 11: The Indonesian Pension System
Ch. 12 - Vietnam’s Pension system in the context of aging population
PART III: SPECIAL TOPICS
Ch. 13: Role of the Private Pension Programs
Ch. 14 - THE U.S. PENSIONS AND TAXATION
Ch. 15: Home Equity Monetization Schemes: An Inter-Country Survey
