Made to Measure Is the Best Fit for Future Pensions
January 6, 2006 | Life-Cycle Savings/Investment | Paper
"Made to Measure Is the Best Fit for Future Pensions." Op-Ed. The Financial Times, January 6, 2006.
Publications
Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management
Spring 2005 | Life-Cycle Savings/Investment | Paper
Merton, Robert C. “Thoughts on the Future: Theory and Practice in Investment Management.” Financial Analysts Journal 59, no. 1 (January/February 2003): 17-23. (Winner of the 2003 Graham and Dodd Award for Best Perspectives Article. Reprinted in Harvard College Investment Magazine, spring 2005.)
The Real Problem with Pensions
December 2004 | Life-Cycle Savings/Investment | Paper
Merton, Robert C. “The Real Problem with Pensions.” Forethought. Harvard Business Review 82, no. 12 (December 2004): 21-22. (HBS Reprint #F0412H.)
International Pension Swaps
January 2002 | Life-Cycle Savings/Investment | Paper
Bodie, Zvi, and Robert C. Merton. "International Pension Swaps." Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 1 (January 2002): 77-83.
Pension Reform and Privatization in International Perspective: The Case of Israel
2000 | Life-Cycle Savings/Investment | Paper
Bodie, Zvi, and Robert C. Merton. “Pension Reform and Privatization in International Perspective: The Case of Israel.” The Economics Quarterly 152 (August 1992). (Reprinted in English in The Foundations of Pension Finance, Volume II, Zvi Bodie and E. Philip Davis, eds., Edward Elger, 2000
Pension Benefit Guarantees in the United States: A Functional Analysis
2000 | Life-Cycle Savings/Investment | Book Chapter
Bodie, Zvi and Robert C. Merton. “Pension Benefit Guarantees in the United States: A Functional Analysis.” In The Future of Pensions in the United States, edited by R. Schmitt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. (Reprinted in The Foundations of Pension Finance, Volume I, Zvi Bodie and E. Philip Davis, eds., Edward Elger, 2000.)
On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans
2000 | Life-Cycle Savings/Investment | Book Chapter
Merton, Robert C. “On Consumption-Indexed Public Pension Plans.” In Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, edited by Zvi Bodie and John B. Shoven. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. (Chapter 18 in Continuous-Time Finance. Reprinted in The Foundations of Pension Finance, Volume I, Zvi Bodie and E. Philip Davis, eds., Edward Elger, 2000.)