Authors: David Blake
ISBN-13: 9780199243532, ISBN-10: 0199243530
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: 2ND
David Blake is Professor of Financial Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Chairman of Square Mile Consultants, a training and research consultancy. He is also a Senior Research Associate, Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics; Senior Consultant, UBS Pensions Research Centre, London School of Economics; and Research Associate, Centre for Risk & Insurance Studies, University of Nottingham Business School.
Never has there been so much media interest in pensions as there is currently. Never has the pensions world changed so rapidly as it has over the last few years. This new edition of Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom provides the latest information on all the key state and private pension schemes operating in the UK within the context of its long historical development since medieval times. It also examines government pensions policy over the last twenty years, and looks ahead to future trends and concerns.
List of Abbreviations | ||
I | The Historical Development of Pensions and Pension Schemes in the United Kingdom | 1 |
1 | The Development of State Pensions | 3 |
2 | The Development of Occupational, Personal, and Stakeholder Pension Schemes | 22 |
3 | The Role of the State in the Development of Pensions and Pension Schemes | 35 |
II | Pensions and Pension Schemes in the United Kingdom | 57 |
4 | The Basic State Pension Scheme, the Minimum Income Guarantee, and the Pension Credit | 59 |
5 | The State Second Pension Scheme and its Predecessors | 79 |
6 | Occupational Pension Schemes | 94 |
7 | Personal and Stakeholder Pension Schemes | 185 |
8 | Self-employed, Partners', Executives', and Directors' Pension Schemes | 270 |
9 | Pension Choices and Retirement Decisions | 279 |
10 | Pensions and Public Policy | 308 |
III | Pension Funds in the United Kingdom | 375 |
11 | Pension Funding in the United Kingdom | 377 |
12 | Pension-fund Investments | 400 |
13 | Pension-fund Management | 466 |
14 | Pension-fund Investment Performance | 557 |
15 | The Consequences of Pension Funds for Capital Markets | 574 |
IV | Postscript | 599 |
16 | The Ideal Pension Scheme | 601 |
Stop Press: Summary of Two Government Green Papers Published in December 2002 | 613 | |
App | Pensions-related Organizations | 622 |
Glossary | 629 | |
Index | 707 |