Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets
Hu, Yuwei | May 2012
Abstract
Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension market has steadily expanded. This paper seeks to identify the impact of Asian pension funds on selected key transmission mechanisms from pension reform to financial development. Utilizing a panel error correction model, we found a statistical relationship between pension asset growth and development of financial and capital markets. The main policy implication is that governments in Asia should continue and/or strengthen pension reforms towards more prefunding of future liabilities, since it brings beneficial impacts on the financial market.
Citation
Hu, Yuwei. 2012. Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3935. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Public Financial Management
Financial System
Financial Statistics
Pension Funds
Mutual Funds
Social Equity
Financial Aspects
Fiscal Policy
Pension plans
Individual retirement accounts
Employee pension trusts
Investment management
Investments
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