Supervising Private Pensions: Institutions and Methods offers detailed and comparable information on the supervisory agencies, institutional design and methods in over 40 countries in the OECD area, Latin America, Eastern Europe and South-east Asia. It is a valuable and practical contribution for policy makers who wish to benefit from pension supervision experiences across countries.
In Australia, the term superannuation refers to savings specifically dedicated to the provision of financial support in the retirement period. The term is preferred to pension for historical reasons, largely because of the longstanding preference for retirement benefits to be paid as lump sums rather than...