Pricing of Mutual Fund Services in Retirement Plans: Evidence from Open-End Equity Funds

Management fees of mutual funds are more costly to investors than is often realized. Moreover, research indicates that in many cases, the fees are not related to performance, contrary to what might be expected from an efficient market. This study uses sample data to illustrate the consequences of inefficiency to an individual investor. It then turns to an empirical examination of the determinants of the ratio of management fees to total assets (MER), investigating market concentration, fund performance, and non-performance characteristics as explanatory variables. All of these classes of variables contributed to the variation of MERs . JEL Classification G23     

物流企业服务柔性能力研究

分析了我国物流企业现状,研究了服务柔性能力内涵,提出从三个层面研究发展物流企业服务柔性能力。     

养老保险全国统筹、渐进式延迟退休与基金可持续

基于精算模型分析养老金全国统筹与渐进式延迟退休年龄政策对养老保险基金可持续性的影响,结果显示：全国统筹政策在短期使财政负担下降100%,长期内不能有效降低财政负担。在此基础上实施“女先男后”和“男女同步”渐进式延迟退休年龄政策能分别使养老保险累计财政负担降低6.68%和34.36%。为有效减轻养老保险基金支付压力和财政负担,应完善全国统筹政策,并尽快出台渐进式延迟退休年龄方案。     

浅谈少数民族地区的刑法适用

我国是一个统一的多民族国家,根据各民族政治、经济、文化各方面的特点,以及少数民族同胞的居住特点和不同的风俗习惯,结合我国少数民族地区刑法适用应遵循的思想原则,提出我国少数民族地区变通适用刑法应当考虑的几个问题.     

Reinforcing the Link Between Contributions and Pensions: The Effect of the Population Aging

In this paper, we analyze a majority voting process on the earnings-related part of pension benefits in a Social Security system with flexible retirement. We show that the aging of the population may make it easier to implement one of the proposed reforms to achieve a delay in the average retirement age of workers, to reinforce the link between contributions and pensions.     

中低层灵活就业群体的异同分析与对策

中低层灵活就业群体主要由下岗工人与农民工组成,他们是就业群体中的弱势群体,如何对他们进行更好的制度安排,促进灵活就业的发展,对于缓解就业压力有着积极的意义.中低层灵活就业中的两大类群体在就业方面既存在共性又存在区别,对此进行分析能更好地促进他们实现灵活就业,并为政府采取有针对性的措施提供参考.     

物流管理专业"宽基础、活模块"课程模式的探索

目前,我国高职教育模式和教学内容体系正处于改革阶段。本文分析了高职物流管理专业课程改革的必要性,重点论述了“宽基础、活模块”课程模式的特点．提出了物流管理专业“宽基础、活模块”课程模式的构建．从而使“宽基础、活模块”课程模式在我国物流管理专业教学中得到进一步的应用和推广。     

汲取儒学精华构建有本土特色的企业文化模式

经济全球化的浪潮使我国企业面临着前所未有的机遇和挑战,在吸收国外先进管理思潮的同时,我国企业应重视对传统文化、特别是要加强对儒家文化的研究和思考,汲取“仁”、“德”、“和”、“义利”、“中庸”、“信”等儒家核心理念,进行多视角的阐释和多维度的运用,从而构建有中国本土特色的企业文化模式。     

Aging and Retirement: Evidence Across Countries

How do demographic factors influence retirement? Using a large cross-country data set, I show that in countries with a larger share of elderly in their population the length of retirement is longer. This result holds true if I control for wealth effects, and when the effective labor force participation rate of the elderly is used instead of the official retirement age. Retirement policies and the social security size are strictly related: a new variable, representing the aggregate relevance of retirement policies, turns out to be significant in explaining the size of social security. Finally, the total amount of social security transfers is positively related with the increase of the elderly population, while in per capita terms this relation is not significant.     

Automatic balancing mechanisms for notional defined contribution accounts in the presence of uncertainty

The notional defined contribution model combines pay-as-you-go financing and a defined contribution pension formula. This paper aims to demonstrate the extent to which liquidity and solvency indicators are affected by fluctuations in economic and demographic conditions and to explore the introduction of an automatic balancing mechanism (ABM) into the pension scheme. We demonstrate that the introduction of an ABM reduces the volatility of the buffer fund and that, in most cases, the automatic mechanism that re-establishes solvency produces the highest value of the risk-adjusted notional factor.