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<p>The supplementary old-age pension system in Poland consists of group and individual plans. This research covers the latter, namely the individual retirement accounts and individual retirement security accounts that were introduced in 2004 and 2012 respectively. The main aim of the paper is to conduct a multidimensional comparative analysis of bank retirement products including the linguistic complexity of documents creating the retirement contracts offered to individuals by banks, and the costliness and profitability of such products in the period 2012-2019. Moreover, it identifies the dependencies between the linguistic and economic traits of retirement contracts offered by banks. The correlation analysis conducted using the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient showed that the more readable a document of a bank contract is, the higher the interest rate is and the higher the cancellation fees. The results of the study are relevant for both financial institutions and public bodies as they show the key characteristics that may influence the demand for individual retirement products in Poland and may serve as either a stimulator or a barrier in the development of supplementary old-age pension provision.</p>
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The supplementary old-age pension system in Poland consists of group and individual plans. This research covers the latter, namely the individual retirement accounts and individual retirement security accounts that were introduced in 2004 and 2012 respectively. The main aim of the paper is to conduct a multidimensional comparative analysis of bank retirement products including the linguistic complexity of documents creating the retirement contracts offered to individuals by banks, and the costliness and profitability of such products in the period 2012-2019. Moreover, it identifies the dependencies between the linguistic and economic traits of retirement contracts offered by banks. The correlation analysis conducted using the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient showed that the more readable a document of a bank contract is, the higher the interest rate is and the higher the cancellation fees. The results of the study are relevant for both financial institutions and public bodies as they show the key characteristics that may influence the demand for individual retirement products in Poland and may serve as either a stimulator or a barrier in the development of supplementary old-age pension provision.

Individual Pension Products Offered by Banks in Poland - a Multidimensional Comparative Analysis

This research was funded by the National Science Centre in Poland, under the grant entitled “Readability, transparency and efficiency of individual pension products”

SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of Statistics and Demography

Financial Internet Quarterly

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The supplementary old-age pension system in Poland consists of group and individual plans. This research covers the latter, namely the individual retirement...

Individual Pension Products Offered by Banks in Poland - a Multidimensional Comparative Analysis

Published Online: Jan 01, 2022

Page range: 91 - 104

Received: Dec 04, 2021

Accepted: Dec 16, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fiqf-2021-0029

Keywords
supplementary pension system, retirement accounts, costliness, readability, efficiency of retirement products, banks

© 2021 Joanna Rutecka-Góra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Individual Pension Products Offered by Banks in Poland - a Multidimensional Comparative Analysis

Published Online: Jan 01, 2022

Page range: 91 - 104

Received: Dec 04, 2021

Accepted: Dec 16, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fiqf-2021-0029

Keywordssupplementary pension system, retirement accounts, costliness, readability, efficiency of retirement products, banks

© 2021 Joanna Rutecka-Góra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
supplementary pension system, retirement accounts, costliness, readability, efficiency of retirement products, banks