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Simulating Pension Income Scenarios with penCalc : An Illustration for India's National Pension System / Sane, Renuka.
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Sane, Renuka.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Annuities.
- Bond Market.
- Equity Markets.
- Forecasting.
- Government Bonds.
- Pension Funds.
- Pensions.
- Retiremnet Income.
- Simulations.
- Social Protections & Assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Stock Market.
- Technology Industry.
- Technology Innovation.
- Local Subjects:
- Annuities.
- Bond Market.
- Equity Markets.
- Forecasting.
- Government Bonds.
- Pension Funds.
- Pensions.
- Retiremnet Income.
- Simulations.
- Social Protections & Assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Stock Market.
- Technology Industry.
- Technology Innovation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (38 pages)
- Other Title:
- Simulating Pension Income Scenarios with penCalc
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper sets out initial results from a new modeling exercise for Defined Contribution (DC) pensions. It develops a package called penCalc based on the open source software language R, which is popular in the academic and modeling communities. All the coding is made freely available. The tool is illustrated for India's DC National Pension System. The aim is not to present the perfect model for India, but to show how the tool works so that policy makers and regulators can see its potential advantages and develop it for their own uses. It generates scenarios for future assets and income dependent on user-defined and changeable assumptions for asset returns, contributions, wages, years in the labor force, and annuity prices, among other parameters. Assumptions can be tailored to different countries and user determined scenarios. Many extensions could be developed, which will be the subject of future work. The international context is highlighted through similar modeling by regulators and pension funds in other jurisdictions. Some of these are more complex or complete than the results in this paper, but by explaining the initial model and making the coding freely available, the authors provide a powerful yet simple and low-cost tool to be adopted and adapted.
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