Document Type
Working Paper
Date of this Version
8-5-2015
Abstract
Following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, global policymakers enacted some of the most sweeping financial regulatory reforms in the past 70 years. Initially, policymakers focused on the banking system, but in recent years they have looked beyond banks for other sources of systemic risk. This chapter briefly describes systemic risk, how bank-oriented models and rules have influenced the thinking about systemic risk, and how this thinking has affected the subsequent regulatory focus on pension funds and asset management as sources of systemic risk. The chapter then examines some of the current theories of how asset management products could pose risks to the financial system.
Keywords
Pensions, 401(k), systemic risk, asset management, mutual funds
Working Paper Number
WP2015-18
Copyright/Permission Statement
All findings, interpretations, and conclusions of this paper represent the views of the authors and not those of the Wharton School or the Pension Research Council. © 2015 Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved.
Date Posted: 12 March 2019
Comments
The published version of this Working Paper may be found in the 2016 publication: Retirement System Risk Management.