Investment Of China's Basic Old-age Insurance Funds

According to “China Aging Development Report," the number of elderlypopulation in China reached194million in2013, and this number may reach202million in2013, aging-rate may reach14.8%. China has become one of the world’sfastest aging countries, the aging population arises a profound test of Chinese pensionsystem. In contrast, the large-scale Chinese urban-basic-pension-insurance-fund isstilling facing several serious problems, such as investment channels are limited,investment return is low, pension gap is increasing, investment structure are notrational. Under the background of2.47%high inflation rate, the pension fund isundertaking huge pressure of keeping value. Since the scare of pension fund is huge,the longer time the reform takes, the more loss may occur. As well as the pressure ofother financial expenditure coupled with aging population, the reform plan forpension system became an urgent issue.This paper studies the problem of pension investment operations from theperspective of asset allocation, suggests to broaden pension fund investment channels,no longer limited in deposits and short-term government bonds. At the same time,this paper tried to explore the interaction between the basic pension insurance fundsand capital markets based on successful investment experiences in china and abroad,suggest to promote the healthy relationship between capital market and pension funds.On the other hand, in order to explore the possible pension investment portfolio, byguaranteeing safety and profitability of basic pension insurance fund, we used themean-variance model to study the basic pension insurance fund to invest in stocks,bonds, cash assets. By applying valid scientific data, we attempted to provide atheoretical basis for pension funds for pension fund investment in capital market.Pension fund investment is a huge systematic project, besides the research onthe way of widen investment channels in this paper, we also discussed the relatedinvestment business model, and investment risk management, which is suitable forChina pension fund.