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1.  Wharton School Comment Letter to DOL on Lifetime Income Illustration in Pension Benefit Statements (PDF)
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Aug. 8, 2013
"Well-crafted retirement benefit calculators can be a useful and convenient tool for participants seeking to determine roughly how much income they could generate from a given amount of retirement savings.... The DOL's calculator is a sensible first step on the path to building a more useful and more complete tool that could actually be used by employees deciding how much to save and what to draw down during retirement."
2.  One Way to Lower Health Costs: Pay People to Be Healthy
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
June 26, 2009
" 'We know that people in the short term have a lot of trouble changing their behavior in ways that is in their long-term best interest,' says Kevin Volpp, Wharton professor of medicine and health care management, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 'People aren't very good at making these tradeoffs between immediate gratification and delayed and often intangible benefits, such as good health 10 years from now.' Volpp -- with collaborators ... -- may have found an answer to this problem: cash."
3.  Pension Shortfalls Put Pressure on Strained University Budgets (PDF)
The Chronicle of Higher Education Link to more items from this source
Feb. 10, 2009
Excerpt: With the stock market in decline, college pension plans are losing money, and administrators are scrambling to cover the shortfall. At some institutions, defined-benefit pension plans are at their lowest levels in decades. Many plans now hold less than three-quarters of the money they will need to pay retiree benefits, says Olivia S. Mitchell, a professor of insurance and risk management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
4.  Video and Transcript of Interview: Deferring Retirement: Working Until Age 75+
Australian School of Business at UNSW / The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Mar. 17, 2011
Widespread financial illiteracy plus increasingly longer life expectancy equals an unpleasant retirement for many, according to Olivia Mitchell, a professor of insurance and risk at the Wharton School.
5.  A 'Perfect Storm' of Circumstances Batters Corporate Pension Plans
Pension Research Council, The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Feb. 13, 2003
Excerpt: [Olivia S. Mitchell, Wharton professor of Insurance and Risk Management and executive director of the Wharton/University of Pennsylania Pension Research Council,] notes that a 10-15% bump upwards in stock markets and a modest increase in interest rates could mean 'smooth sailing' for defined benefit plans, and for plan sponsors' perceptions of these retirement plans. Meanwhile though, the problem may extend beyond the direct effects of the stock market's ups and downs.
6.  Wall Street Journal Interviews Experts on Solutions to the 'Nest-Egg Blues'
Wall Street Journal via Global Action on Aging Link to more items from this source
July 2, 2002
Excerpt: For tips on how to regain financial and emotional equilibrium in scary economic times, The Wall Street Journal convened a panel at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. The participants were: John L. McKeever III, a chartered financial consultant ... Olivia S. Mitchell, professor of insurance and risk management at the Wharton School [and] Jack L. VanDerhei, associate professor at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University...
7.  An Executive Compensation Plan for the Long-Term
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
May 29, 2009
Excerpt: [N]ew Wharton research suggests that a compensation structure based on long-term escrow accounts could be better -- at least for a company's future -- than the common practice of rewarding short-term changes in share price. Wharton finance professor Alex Edmans and a group of colleagues propose linking an executive's compensation to the performance of the firm over a longer horizon. Their method also takes into account changing conditions within the firm.
8.  Retirement Planning: Most People Don't Know How Nor Even Think About It (PDF)
Singapore Management University / The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Apr. 8, 2008
2 pages. Excerpt: Worldwide, individuals are being asked to make more of their own savings and investment decisions, especially for retirement. In the US and Europe, for example, there has been a switch from defined benefit pension plans ... to defined contribution pension plans .... Research by Wharton insurance and risk management professor Olivia Mitchell and Singapore Management University finance professor Benedict Koh -- on cost structures of investment offerings in Singapore's Central Provident Fund -- shows, however, that people are not well-equipped to handle such investment decisions.
9.  Are Eliot Spitzer's Insurance Lawsuits Hitting the Wrong Targets?
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Oct. 6, 2005
Excerpt: It is appropriate for Spitzer to investigate bid rigging, says J. David Cummins, a professor of insurance and risk management at Wharton. But he draws the line at eliminating contingent commissions. 'Contingent commissions can help keep property-casualty and other markets efficient,' says Cummins, the executive director of Wharton's S.S. Huebner Foundation. 'The practice may actually level the playing field by giving buyers and sellers equal access to vital market information.'
10.  Crackdown on Executive Pay: Too Much or Not Enough?
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Oct. 28, 2009
Excerpt: Last week, the Obama administration's 'pay czar,' Kenneth Feinberg, announced that the government will impose caps on compensation for the 25 highest-paid executives at seven companies that received 'exceptional assistance' through the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- including American International Group (AIG), Bank of America, Citigroup, Chrysler, Chrysler Financial, General Motors and GMAC. Under the new regulations, salaries will be reduced by an average of 90%, and total compensation (including bonuses and stock options) will be lowered by 50%. Knowledge@Wharton spoke with Wharton accounting professor Wayne R. Guay and then with finance professor Alex Edmans about what these changes could mean for Wall Street, company shareholders and taxpayers. The [target page] is an edited transcript of the interviews.
11.  'Don't Touch My Perks': Companies that Eliminate Them Risk Employee Backlash
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
July 25, 2008
Excerpt: Wharton faculty and compensation experts say the flap over Google's decision to change its employee day care program illustrates the difficulty in eliminating any employee perk. 'Once you have the perk, to take it away is seen as a violation of a psychological contract you have with your employee,' says Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard.
12.  Information Technology: Not a Cure for the High Cost of Health Care
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
June 11, 2009
Excerpt: President Obama made information technology a linchpin in his plan to reform health care when he included $19 billion in computerized medical record funding in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The goal: Use technology to reduce costs and improve the quality of care. The reality: Technology could increase health care costs without markedly improving quality, according to experts at Wharton.
13.  How Design of Pension Plans Influences Employee Investments
Pension Research Council, The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Jan. 31, 2002
Excerpt: Many corporate executives believe that once a plan is set up, employees should be left on their own. But it's not that simple, says Wharton finance professor Andrew Metrick. Even if the employer wants to sit on the sidelines, his choices in designing the plan will strongly influence the level of employee participation, the percentage of income employees contribute and the investment choices they make.
14.  Current Controversies in Executive Compensation: 'Issues of Justice and Fairness'
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
May 2, 2007
Excerpt: As Thomas Dunfee, Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics, puts it: Do executive compensation figures reflect an efficient market, or a failed one? Are pay levels adequately disclosed? Should shareholders have more say? 'Are there issues of fairness and justice?' he asked.
15.  Broken Promises: Can the World's Stressed-out Pension Plans Be Rescued?
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Dec. 7, 2010
Excerpt: For national retirement systems, the problem frequently boils down to falling birth rates and longer life spans. 'It's the two blades of the scissors coming together: Not enough workers paying in and people living a very long life,' says Olivia S. Mitchell, professor of insurance and risk management and executive director of the Pension Research Council at Wharton.
16.  Audio: Experts Answer Questions on Social Security
National Public Radio [NPR] Link to more items from this source
Jan. 31, 2005
Excerpt: Robert Siegel talks with Alicia Munnell of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and Kent Smetters of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Munnell and Smetters, both former Treasury Department officials, address questions about Social Security.
17.  China Can Help the U.S. Tackle Its Social Security Crisis
Pension Research Council, The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Jan. 30, 2003
Excerpt: Much has been written about the looming pension crisis in the U.S., Europe and Japan, whose populations are aging. Wharton finance professor Jeremy J. Siegel argues that economic growth in China and the rest of the developing world holds the key to dealing with the impending crunch.
18.  Avoiding the Tough Issues: The Candidates on Health Care and Entitlements
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Oct. 16, 2008
Excerpt: Wharton faculty say the candidates have done a better job of clarifying their positions on these difficult issues than their predecessors in prior elections. Still, they add, Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and John McCain of Arizona fall short of laying out richly detailed plans to solve the deep, structural problems with these programs, mainly because there are no easy solutions and speaking hard truths is likely to alienate voters.
19.  Protective Behavior and Life Insurance
Pension Research Council, The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Feb. 8, 2024
"[The authors] study life insurance market responses to COVID-19 using unique national administrative data from Israel on purchases and cancellations of life insurance policies, and an internet survey of Americans' life insurance choices, risk attitudes, COVID-19 perceptions, and vaccination behavior. [They find] no evidence that life insurance purchases or cancellations were consistent with adverse selection during the pandemic, while [they] do find advantageous selection."
20.  Multiplier Effect: The Financial Consequences of Worker Absences
The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania Link to more items from this source
Dec. 1, 2005
Excerpt: 'Relative to a healthy person, an employee in poor health is more likely to be absent from work and less productive when he or she is at work,' .... A recent study suggests that these indirect costs of poor health may actually exceed direct medical costs. [To read the 22 page 'How to Present the Business Case for Healthcare Quality to Employers.' go to http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/1303.pdf.]
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