Research papers
Relevant macro issues of interest by the ICPM Research Partners include optimal pension system design, regulation, and collaboration. Micro issues of interest include agency costs, governance and organization design, investment beliefs, risk measurement and management, and strategy implementation. Researchers of selected outcomes are invited to present their findings at upcoming Discussion Forums and may also be published in theRotman International Journal of Pension Management.
Annual Deadlines
- January, 2013 - Call for Reserch Proposals Issued
- February 18, 2013 – Intent to Submit a Research Proposal - CLOSED
- April 3, 2013 – Full Research Proposal - IN PROGRESS
- Late April 2013 – Award Decision made by Research Committee / Winners Notified
- June 2013 – Winners Published in the Rotman International Journal of Pension Management
Submit a proposal for consideration by the Research Committee
PUBLISHED RESEARCH
-
When Do Derivatives Add Value in Asset Allocation Problems for Pension Funds?
Jiajia Cui Bart Oldenkamp Michel Vellekoop
-
The Pension Governance Deficit: Still With Us
Keith Ambachtsheer Ronald Capelle Hubert Lum
-
Is Bigger Better? Size and Performance in Pension Plan Management
Alexander Dyck Lukasz Pomorski
-
Pension Fund Performance and Costs: Small is Beautiful
Rob Bauer Martijn Cremers Rik Frehen
-
The Freezing of Corporate Pension Plans
-
Investment Beliefs that Matter: New Insights into the Value Drivers of Pension Funds
Rob Bauer Kees Koedijk Alfred Slager
-
Pension Fund Performance and Risk-Taking Under Decentalized Investment Management
David Blake Allan Timmerman Ian Tonks Russell Wermers
-
Fee Disclosure to Pension Participants: Establishing Minimum Requirements
-
The Canada Supplementary Pension Plan (CSPP): Towards an Adequate, Affordable Pension for All Canadians
-
Optimal decentralized alm
Jules van Binsbergen Michael Brandt Ralph Koijen
-
Board of trustee composition and investment performance of us public pension plans
-
International diversification and labor income risk
Carolina Fugazza Maela Giofré Giovanna Nicodano
-
Pension reform, ownership structure and corporate governance: evidence from Sweden
Mariassunta Giannetti Luc Laeven
-
Identifying and mobilizing win-win opportunities for collaboration among pension fund Institutions and their agents
-
The performance of us pension funds: new insights into the agency costs debate
Rob Bauer Hubert Lum Rik Frehen Roger Otten
-
Partisan Politics and Bureaucratic Encroachment: The Principles and Policies of Pension Reserve Fund Design and Governance
-
An Internal Swap Market between Equity Returns and Wage Growth: Can it Enhance the Welfare of Defined Contribution Plan Participants?
-
Can Large Pension Funds Beat the Market? Asset Allocation, Market Timing, Security Selection and the Limits of Liquidity
Rob Bauer Aleksandar Andonov Martijn Cremers
Archives:
- Volume 5, Issue 2 Challenging the Status Quo: New Answers to Old Questions
- Volume 5, Issue 1 Innovation in the Pensions Sector
- Volume 4, Issue 2 Rethinking Fund Governance, Structure and Pension Design
- Volume 4, Issue 1 Pension Funds, Governance and Compensation
- Volume 3, Issue 2 Rethinking Pension Design and Management in a Post-Financial Crisis World
- Volume 3, Issue 1 Pension Institutions in the 21st Century: Structure, Governance & Stakeholder Relations
- Volume 2, Issue 2 New Insights into Pension Management, Design, and Shareowner Stewardship
- Volume 2, Issue 1 Investment Beliefs, Risk Management, and Pension Funds
- Volume 1, Issue 1 Effective Pension Governance: New Insights and Research Findings