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A comparison of risk preference elicitation methods and presentation formats

“Presentation format less important than risk elicitation method and individual characteristics” New legislation requires pension funds and insurance companies to elicit risk attitudes at least every five years. How such a survey is presented (the presentation format) could influence elicited risk preferences and consequently the investment strategies for different groups. We investigate whether that is the case among pension fund participants in the construction…

Communication about the allocation of assets or the answer to the question: will my pension grow or shrink?

“Communication needs to explain current and new pension allocations” Under the new Dutch Pension Act, collective assets will be allocated to individual assets. This will take place during a transition period. Pension providers are legally obliged to inform participants in advance about what these changes mean for them. The intention is that every interested party will be able to compare the expected pension in…

New Theme Grants: € 1.4 Million Awarded for Three-year Research Projects

Following scientific validation by the Scientific Council and recommendation from the Partner Research Council, four applications for theme grants have been awarded with grants of €350,000 each: Jorgo Goossens (Radboud University): Understanding, measuring, and applying ESG preferences Thomas Post (Maastricht University): Pension Planning in the Age of AI – What can we learn from Digital Peers? Anouk Festjens, Jona Linde, Thomas Meissner, Peter Werner…

Netspar represented at Pensioen3daagse

The Pensioen3daagse is over again. This initiative by Wijzer in geldzaken encourages people to take action for their pensions. The opening took place during the BlikOpener symposium at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Netspar was also represented. Researchers Max Groneck and Raun van Ooijen offered a try-out of their pension comparison tool during the symposium. They are developing this tool together with the Netspar…

What comes to mind when considering looking into and/or adjusting one’s pension: An empirical study among UK and US residents

“Positive emotions and feelings also drive pension decisions” Pension reforms often result in the responsibility for an adequate pension falling more on individual participants. It is then important that participants sufficiently understand their pension situation and adjust it where desired. Effective interventions to promote this require a better understanding of the motivations for looking at the pension situation. We investigated this with an online…

Pension Day 2023: pension research in its full scope

From Groningen to Maastricht and even outside the Netherlands. From all directions, researchers came to Pension Day in Utrecht’s Beatrix Building on 12 October. And not only that: there was also great variety in terms of research disciplines. Three participants about this successful day of knowledge exchange. Pension Day is an event where participants mainly explore the depth of the pension field. This is…

Winners Netspar Thesis Awards 2023 have been announced

The winners of the Netspar Thesis Awards 2023 have been announced: Danjun Xu from University of Amsterdam and Timo Lambregts from Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Netspar Thesis Awards were presented Thursday during Pension Day by Andries de Grip, chair of the Editorial Board. They go to a Master thesis and PhD thesis that stand out for their excellence. The topic of the thesis should…

Sustainable investments and climate risks: many questions still open

Many questions are still open when it comes to sustainable investments and climate risks. So says Netspar scientific director Mathijs van Dijk at the kick-off of the research meeting “Sustainable investments and climate risks”. Two researchers have entered this rich research area and presented their research last Tuesday. The research meeting addressed how long-term investors can deal with climate risks in their investment portfolios…

Conversion by Pension Funds: “This Is How To Do the Conversion”

In this paper, the researchers describe and analyze the process of plan conversion, from the lead-up to the amendment of the pension agreement by the employer (social partners) all the way through to the conversion decision by the pension fund. The conversion decision results in an internal collective value transfer, whereupon the conversion is completed. The goal is to provide guidance in the decision-making…

Choice guidance: putting participants first

“Suboptimal pension choices can be mitigated by effective choice guidance” Choice guidance is currently a hot subject in the Dutch pension sector. This is mainly due to the new open standard about this in the Future Pensions Act that came into force on 1 July 2023. With the new standard, the legislator wants to mitigate the risks of suboptimal choices by participants. Now, pension…

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