User profiles for W. D. Pfau

Wade Pfau

The American College of Financial Services
Verified email at theamericancollege.edu
Cited by 1871

The elderly population in Vietnam during economic transformation: an overview

TL Giang, WD Pfau - 2007 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Many studies have suggested that, under the context of high economic growth and strong
flows of laborers from rural to urban areas, living arrangements of the elderly people, …

[BOOK][B] The role of pension funds in capital market development

C Meng, WD Pfau - 2010 - core.ac.uk
This paper provides an investigation of the impacts of pension funds on capital market
development, both for stock markets and bond markets. For the overall sample of countries, we …

VAR analysis of the monetary transmission mechanism in Vietnam

LV Hung, WD Pfau - Applied Econometrics and International …, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Understanding the monetary transmission mechanism is crucial to central bankers. We
analyze the monetary transmission mechanism in Vietnam, using the vector autoregression …

The 4 percent rule is not safe in a low-yield world

MS Finke, WD Pfau, D Blanchett - Available at SSRN 2201323, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
Pfau (2011b) estimated that the cumulative portfolio returns and inflation in the first 10 years
… be linked to stock market valuation levels, and Pfau (2011a) demonstrates how sustainable …

Reducing retirement risk with a rising equity glide-path

WD Pfau, M Kitces - Available at SSRN 2324930, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
This study explores the issue of what is an appropriate default equity glide-path for client
portfolios during the retirement phase of the life cycle. We find, surprisingly, that rising equity …

Determinants and impacts of international remittances on household welfare in Vietnam

WD Pfau, LT Giang - International social science journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… Wade Pfau is an associate professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies,
Japan. Long Thanh Giang is a lecturer at the National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam. …

Ageing, poverty and the role of a social pension in Vietnam

GT Long, WD Pfau - Development and Change, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Using the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2004, this article seeks to quantify
the potential role and impacts of a social pension scheme for reducing elderly poverty in …

An international perspective on safe withdrawal rates from retirement savings: The demise of the 4 percent rule?

WD Pfau - Journal of Financial Planning, Forthcoming, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Numerous studies about sustainable withdrawal rates from retirement savings have been
published, but they are overwhelmingly based on the same underlying data for US asset …

An overview of retirement income planning

WD Pfau - Pfau, WD (2018). An overview of retirement income …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Retirement income planning has emerged as a distinct field within financial planning with
the realization that risks change dramatically in retirement. The combination of longevity risk, …

Vulnerability of Vietnamese elderly to poverty: Determinants and policy implications

LT Giang, WD Pfau - Asian Economic Journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We identify determinants of elderly poverty in Vietnam using household survey data from
2004. The elderly living in urban and rural areas face significantly different conditions. Some …