Roberto Rocha - Annuities and Other Retirement Products: Designing the Payout Phase

Annuities and Other Retirement Products

Annuities and

Other Retirement Products

Designing the Payout Phase

Roberto Rocha
Dimitri Vittas
Heinz P. Rudolph

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ISBN: 978-0-8213-8573-9
eISBN: 978-0-8213-8574-6
DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8573-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rocha, Roberto Rezende.
Annuities and other retirement products : designing the payout phase / Roberto Rocha, Dimitri Vittas, Heinz P. Rudolph.
p. cm. (Directions in development)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8213-8573-9 (alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8213-8574-6
1. Pensions. 2. Annuities. 3. Old age pensions. 4. PensionsGovernment policy. 5. AnnuitiesGovernment policy. 6. Old age pensionsGovernment policy. I. Vittas, Dimitri. II. Rudolph, Heinz P. III. Title.
HD7091.R63 2010
331.2524dc22

2010036026

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