Edited by Raimond Maurer, Endowed Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance, the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Olivia S. Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Mark J. Warshawsky, Director of Retirement Research, Towers Watson
Raimond Maurer holds the endowed Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance in the Finance Department at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. His research focuses on asset management, life-time portfolio choice, and pension finance. He serves in professional capacities for the Society of Actuaries, the Association of Certified International Investment Analysts, and the Advisory Board of the Wharton School's Pension Research Council. He received his habilitation, his Ph.D., and his Diploma in business from Mannheim University.
Olivia S. Mitchell is the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her main areas of interest are private and public insurance, risk management, public finance, labor markets, compensation, and pensions with both a US and an international focus. She received the BA in Economics from Harvard University and the MS and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mark J. Warshawsky is Director of Retirement Research at Towers Watson, a global human capital consulting firm. He conducts and oversees research on employer-sponsored retirement programs and policies, social security, financial planning, and health care financing. He is a co-author of the Fundamentals of Private Pensions, Ninth Edition, 2009, published by Oxford University Press, and of Retirement Income: Risks and Strategies, forthcoming, MIT Press. Previously he held senior-level economic research positions at the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, and TIAA-CREF, where he established the Paul A. Samuelson Prize. Dr. Warshawsky received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and a BA with Highest Distinction from Northwestern University.
Contributors:
Andrew G. Biggs, Resident Scholar, the American Enterprise Institute.
Lans Bovenberg, Professor of Economics, Tilburg University.
Barbara A. Butrica, Senior Research Associate, the Urban Institute.
Jingjing Chai, doctoral student in the Department of Finance, Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Robert L. Clark, Professor of Economics and Professor of Management, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, North Carolina State University.
Julia Coronado, Chief Economist - North America, BNP Paribas.
Karen Dynan, Vice President, Co-director of the Economic Studies program, and the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution.
Jason J. Fichtner, Senior Research Fellow, the Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
Alan Glickstein, Senior Retirement Consultant, Towers Watson.
Eli Greenblum, Member of the Office of the Chief Actuary, The Segal Company.
Tomeka Hill, Senior Research Associate, Towers Watson.
Michael Hurd, Senior Principal Researcher, RAND, and the Director of the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
Richard W. Johnson, Senior Fellow, the Urban Institute.
Raimond Maurer, Endowed Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance in the Finance Department, the Goethe University of Frankfurt.
Judith F. Mazo, Senior Vice President, The Segal Company.
Olivia S. Mitchell, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Theo Nijman, Van Lanschot Professor in Investment Theory, Tilburg University.
John W.R. Phillips, Labor Economist, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Division of Behavioral and Social Research.
Ralph Rogalla, Assistant Professor of Finance, Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Susann Rohwedder, Senior Economist, RAND.
Barbara A. Smith, Senior Economist, the Office of Retirement Policy at the Social Security Administration.
Karen E. Smith, Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute.
Ning Tang, Assistant Professor, the Department of Finance, the College of Business Administration, San Diego State University.
Stephen P. Utkus, Director, the Vanguard Center for Retirement Research.
Mark J. Warshawsky, Director of Retirement Research, Towers Watson.
David Wray, President of the Profit sharing/401k Council of America (PSCA).
