Denmark: Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Pensions with Profit Contracts

March 23, 2007

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Denmark: Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Pensions with Profit Contracts, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

This technical note examines pensions with profit contracts in Denmark. The Danish life insurance and pension sector is sensitive to a range of risks on both the asset and liability side of the balance sheet. One of the principal vulnerabilities for the sector arises out of the requirement to achieve a high guaranteed return for the duration of “in-force” policies. Although several measures have been implemented to increase provisions and capital, and for hedging interest rate risk through derivatives, the overall risk in the pension sector still needs to be closely monitored.

Subject: Expenditure, Financial institutions, Insurance, Insurance companies, Labor, National accounts, Pension spending, Pensions, Return on investment

Keywords: CR, Europe, Guarantee level, Guarantied yield, Insurance, Insurance companies, Interest rate exposure, Investment return, ISCR, Market yield, Net interest rate sensitivity, Pension spending, Pensions, Return on equity, Return on investment, Return option, Yield, Yield environment

Publication Details

Pages:

22
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2007/124
Stock No:

1DNKEA2007009
ISBN:

9781451811216
ISSN:

1934-7685

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