Department of Finance

 

Date of this Version

2000

Document Type

Article

Citation

Journal of Actuarial Practice 8 (2000), pp. 5-42

Comments

Copyright 2000 Absalom Press

Abstract

The process funding pension plans is viewed as a dynamic control process. Two performance measures are introduced to evaluate the effectiveness of plan contributions: the cost-induced performance measure (CIPM) and the ratio-induced performance measure (RIPM). A dynamic programming approach is used to determining the optimal contributions with the objective of minimizing the performance measure. The methodology developed is applied to a sample of members of Taiwan's Public Employees Pension Plan (Tai-PERS). We show that RIPM produces more stable results than those using CIPM.

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