Volume 2005, Issue 2

Financial Market Trends

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OECD Journal: Financial Market Trends

OECD’s twice-yearly journal providing timely analyses and statistics on financial matters of topical interest and longer-term developments in specific financial sectors. Each issue provides a brief update of trends and prospects in the international and major domestic financial markets along with articles covering such topics as structural and regulatory developments in OECD financial systems, trends in foreign direct investment, trends in privatization, and financial sector statistics covering areas such as bank profitability, insurance, and institutional investors.

Periodically, a small number of articles within one field of financial sector developments – constituting the so-called special focus for the particular issue – may be included.

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ISSN: 16096886 (online)
https://doi.org/10.1787/16096886

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2005 Volume 2005, Issue 2

OECD's twice yearly assessment of trends in financial markets. In addition to the regular overview chapter, this issue includes articles on bank governance in China, financial literacy, the impact of ageing on financial markets, pension funds for government workers, guidelines for insurers' governance, and global pension statistics indicators.

09 Nov 2005 English

https://doi.org/10.1787/fmt-v2005-2-en

Author(s): OECD

Articles

Mark		Title
		Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets Over the past few months, prices in major financial markets have remained strong despite further oil price increases. After major equity markets had shown a soft spot around March and April, they regained their upward trend in the second quarter ...	Click to download PDF - 845.35KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		Governance of Banks in China With the economic reform in the late 1970s, it has been an objective of government policy for Chinese banks to move away from their traditional passive role of executing directives adapted to the active role in resource allocation of banks in a ...	Click to download PDF - 425.03KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		Improving Financial Literacy In 2003, the OECD established the Financial Education Project in response to the increasing interest of its member countries in improving the financial literacy of their consumers. Phase one of this project has culminated in the publication of the ...	Click to download PDF - 278.43KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		The Aggregate and Structural Impact of Ageing on Financial Markets Ageing will translate into long run trends in supply as well as demand of capital in the next decades. This paper provides some quantitative assessments of the effects on financial markets of ageing in four large OECD countries (United States ...	Click to download PDF - 569.94KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		Pension Funds for Government Workers in OECD Countries In the past few years, there has been a trend towards the harmonisation of pension policies for private and public sector workers, with the introduction of occupational complementary pension funds for civil servants. In many OECD countries these ...	Click to download PDF - 375.54KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		Guidelines for Insurers' Governance On 28 April 2005, the OECD Council approved the Recommendation on Guidelines for Insurers’ Governance. Guidelines were first endorsed by the OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee in collaboration and wide consultation with the 30 member ...	Click to download PDF - 351.83KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ
		Global Pension Statistics Indicators In 2002, the OECD launched, through the Working Party on Private Pensions and the Task Force on Pension Statistics,1 the Global Pension Statistics Project,2 which aims to establish a harmonised set of statistics and indicators related to funded ...	Click to download PDF - 323.55KB PDF Click to Read online and share READ

Highlights of Recent Trends in Financial Markets

Over the past few months, prices in major financial markets have remained strong despite further oil price increases. After major equity markets had shown a soft spot around March and April, they regained their upward trend in the second quarter ...

Governance of Banks in China

With the economic reform in the late 1970s, it has been an objective of government policy for Chinese banks to move away from their traditional passive role of executing directives adapted to the active role in resource allocation of banks in a ...

Improving Financial Literacy

In 2003, the OECD established the Financial Education Project in response to the increasing interest of its member countries in improving the financial literacy of their consumers. Phase one of this project has culminated in the publication of the ...

The Aggregate and Structural Impact of Ageing on Financial Markets

Ageing will translate into long run trends in supply as well as demand of capital in the next decades. This paper provides some quantitative assessments of the effects on financial markets of ageing in four large OECD countries (United States ...

Pension Funds for Government Workers in OECD Countries

In the past few years, there has been a trend towards the harmonisation of pension policies for private and public sector workers, with the introduction of occupational complementary pension funds for civil servants. In many OECD countries these ...

Guidelines for Insurers' Governance

On 28 April 2005, the OECD Council approved the Recommendation on Guidelines for Insurers’ Governance. Guidelines were first endorsed by the OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee in collaboration and wide consultation with the 30 member ...

Global Pension Statistics Indicators

In 2002, the OECD launched, through the Working Party on Private Pensions and the Task Force on Pension Statistics,1 the Global Pension Statistics Project,2 which aims to establish a harmonised set of statistics and indicators related to funded ...