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- Title
Financial market assumptions and pension plan models: a comment on PIMS model asset markets assumptions.
- Authors
GECZY, CHRISTOPHER C.
- Abstract
The financial market assumptions of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)'s Pension Insurance Modeling System model are critical inputs to simulations for most apparent uses of the system. They currently appear to be based on a reduced form, ‘classical’ approach to assessing and forecasting the distribution of returns on various classes of input assets, allowing for a fairly sophisticated and useful approach to understanding simulated distributions of potential pension insurance outcomes as well as the net financial status of the PBGC. This technical note discusses some of the capital market side assumptions utilized in the model. It also comments on important related assumptions including the assumed asset allocations of insured plans, making suggestion for possible modification of input assumptions of the model to reflect time variation in financial market return behavior as well as time variation in observed plan allocations.
- Subjects
MICROECONOMICS; COMMERCE; PENSION Benefit Guaranty Corp.; FINANCIAL economics; PENSION trusts
- Publication
Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, 2015, Vol 14, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
1474-7472
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1474747214000432