Polish Pension Funds Investment - is There A Place For Real Property in A Portfolio?

• Authors: Magdalena Zaleczna , Rafał Wolski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The pension fund investments should be characterised by a long term, low risk and profitability, which implicates the necessity of portfolio diversification. In general, pension funds having regular long-term contributions should develop the long-term policy and its effects would be responsible for the economic position of their future beneficiaries. The ways of capital allocation are also critical in terms of the entire economy, as a constant flow of financial resources provided by pension funds stimulates the activity of its recipients. The typical assets in a pension fund's portfolio in the developed economy are stocks, bonds and real property owing to low (negative) correlation between these assets and their diversified potential. The legal investment limits imposed on the Polish pension funds exclude direct investment in real property, which is responsible - in the authors' opinion - for the lower level of diversification and hinders the risk reduction. The authors analyze the Polish pension fund portfolios focusing on risk and return levels. The aim of the study is to find the answer to the important question about the results of hypothetically added real property to the portfolios of pension funds.

Keywords

EN

investment; legal regulation; pension funds

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 151-166

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2011-12-21

Contributors

author

Magdalena Zaleczna

• Department of Investment and Real Estate, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, Rewolucji 1905r., 90-214 Lodz, Poland

author

Rafał Wolski

• Department of Industry Economics and Capital Market, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, Rewolucji 1905r., 90-214 Lodz, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10031-010-0014-6