Public Pension Funds and Assumed Rates of Return: An Empirical Examination of Public Sector Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Business & Economics

• Rate of Return 100%
• Defined Benefit Pension Plans 85%
• Public Sector 79%
• Public Pensions 77%
• Pension Funds 66%
• Political Process 30%
• Pension Obligations 19%
• Regression Analysis 16%
• Pensions 15%
• Pension Plans 14%
• Multivariate Regression 14%
• Political Environment 14%
• Opportunism 13%
• Financial Condition 13%
• Asset Allocation 13%
• Oversight 13%
• Financial Information 12%
• Governance Structure 12%
• Linkage 12%
• Liability 10%
• Fiscal 9%
• Monitoring 9%
• United States of America 4%

Social Sciences

• pension fund 91%
• pension 65%
• public sector 50%
• examination 35%
• financial information 17%
• opportunism 16%
• multivariate analysis 12%
• liability 11%
• assets 10%
• regression analysis 10%
• obligation 9%
• monitoring 9%
• governance 8%
• trend 6%
• literature 5%