Readability, Efficiency and Costliness of Individual Retirement Products in Poland

• Autorzy: Sylwia Pieńkowska-Kamieniecka , Joanna Rutecka-Góra , Patrycja Kowalczyk-Rolczyńska , Milena Hadryan
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Research background: The role of supplementary pension systems in providing adequate income in old-age is increasing significantly. They are frequently analysed, but rather in terms of architecture, product forms, assets under management or tax incentives than in terms of their efficiency, costliness or readability for individuals.
Purpose of the article: The first aim of this paper is to evaluate individual retirement products in Poland regarding their linguistic readability and transparency, investment efficiency and costliness. Moreover, we examine whether there is any correlation between the analyzed characteristics of contracts that would suggest an intentional strategy by financial institutions to hide low efficiency and high costs. The second aim of the article is to assess which individual retirement products are similar to each other and which are significantly different. The research covers two types of individual retirement products (IKE and IKZE) offered at the beginning of 2017.
Methods: We used the 'Jasnopis' linguistic analysis tool to assess the difficulty level of the language used in the contracts and we conducted desk-research to analyse their transparency. We indicated the costliness and efficiency of the products by calculating the 5-year cost ratios and real average 5-year rates of return. To examine the relations between the characteristics of pension contracts, we used the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient and then verified its significance with a non-parametric test. Moreover, to identify groups of products that are similar to or different from each other, Ward's method was used. The study includes nearly 90% of all individual retirement products offered in Poland.
Findings & value added: For both types of retirement products studied (IKE and IKZE), we found that the more readable a contract is, the higher its rate of return is and the higher the costs charged are. Moreover, the more readable a contract is, the more transparent it is. The findings of the study provide financial institutions, the supervisor and creators of social policy with information on market imperfections and recommendations how to improve the individual retirement products offered on the market. Our research makes a unique contribution to the multidimensional research of supplementary pension systems. It also develops the understanding of how to successfully use linguistic tools in complex analyses of financial services. The results of the hierarchical cluster analysis proved that both IKE and IKZE products differ substantially and their features generally do not depend on the type of the financial provider. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Retirement pension entitlement; Pensions; Supplementary pensions

PL

Uprawnienia emerytalno-rentowe; Emerytury; Emerytury dodatkowe

• Czasopismo: Equilibrium
• Rocznik: 2021
• Tom: 16
• Numer: nr 1
• Strony: 45--74

Twórcy

autor

Sylwia Pieńkowska-Kamieniecka

• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

autor

Joanna Rutecka-Góra

• Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

autor

Patrycja Kowalczyk-Rolczyńska

• Wrocław University of Economics, Poland

autor

Milena Hadryan

• Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland

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10.24136/eq.2021.002