Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yulia A. Dormidontova Author-Email: dormidontova@iet.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow 119571, Russia Author-Name: Antonina A. Tikhonova Author-Email: atikhonova@nifi.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow 119571, Russia Title: The Role of ТLoss AversionУ in the Creation of Optimal Pension AccumulationsХ Investment Strategy Abstract: The share of pension expenditure in the gross domestic product (GDP) and in the public spending has significantly increased in recent years. For this reason the role of the optimal strategy of investing pension savings is growing as well. This paper examines the impact of Тloss aversionУ on the formation of investment strategies of pension savings by pension market participants. As foreign experience shows, the best in such conditions is a threshold strategy in which the pension actors and market participants set a certain target level of pension savings. Classification-JEL: I38, J26, J32 Keywords: Тloss aversionУ, investment of pension accumulations, foreign experience, market of pension products Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 123-128 Issue: 1 Year: 2014 Month: March File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2014/1/13_1_2014.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:140113:p:123-128