Banking on Death or Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions

By M. Messkoub. 2005

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In the eye of the ‘perfect storm’: the final salary pensions crisis and financialisation of Anglo‐American capitalism (2004, background): “For Robin Blackburn, meanwhile, pension funds became engaged in ‘adventures in speculation’ during the early 1980s.(31) A cultural political economy reading suggests, however, that we consider the making of the financialised investment practices of pension funds.”
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “More recent retirees from industrial and public sectors have also received good occupational pensions negotiated in an era of strong trade unions (Blackburn 2003).”
Financialization and housing: Between globalization and Varieties of Capitalism (2016, background): “First, the increasing pool of assets by institutional investors, characterized as ‘pension fund capitalism’ (Blackburn, 2002; Clark, 2000, 2003; Drucker, 1976) or ‘money manager capitalism’ (Minsky, 1996).”
Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality (2019, background): “The trade-off can be seen as part of a broader, international movement away from defined benefit to defined contribution pension plans that wagered on continuous appreciation of asset prices in the equity markets to guarantee above-average returns to workers (Blackburn, 2002).”
From the gene to the globe: Extracting rents based on intellectual property monopolies (2007, background): “Private, capital-fed retirement systems have immensely intensified the attractiveness of financial investments and led to a centralization of individual savings and wealth (Blackburn, 2002; Sauviat, 2004).”