Korea Certified Pension Expert (연금상담전문가, CPE) key terms

The difference between a household’s stated assets and liabilities at a specified date, distinct from recurring income.

A record of receipts and payments over a period, used to identify surplus, deficit and timing mismatches.

The ability to meet payments using resources available at the needed time without unacceptable delay or loss.

The period over which a particular goal and its funding need are evaluated, which can differ across goals.

The financial ability to absorb adverse outcomes without undermining essential obligations, distinct from emotional willingness to take risk.

The agreed services, responsibilities and boundaries of the planner-client relationship, including relevant information and compensation arrangements.

Periodic assessment of implementation, outcomes and changing circumstances to decide whether a financial plan requires adjustment.

Combining exposures to reduce dependence on a single source of risk, without eliminating all possible investment losses.

The potential adverse effect of excessive dependence on one issuer, asset class, sector or other common exposure.

An estimate of percentage bond-price change from a small yield movement, subject to the model and neglected convexity effects.

The effect of the order of investment returns on outcomes when contributions or withdrawals occur during the investment period.

A long-term target mix of assets chosen to reflect the investor’s objectives, constraints and capacity for risk.

The risk that an investment cannot be sold or accessed at the required time and acceptable price.

Sensitivity of a home-currency investment result to exchange-rate movements affecting foreign-currency assets, income or liabilities.

An arrangement defining benefits through a specified formula, distinct from simply promising the member a fixed account contribution.

An arrangement defining contributions while the eventual account outcome depends on investment results, fees and applicable withdrawal arrangements.

An individual retirement pension account used within Korean rules for portability or additional retirement saving, distinct from an unrestricted brokerage account.

Korea’s contributory public pension arrangement, whose eligibility and benefit rules differ from Basic Pension and workplace schemes.

A Korean old-age support program with its own income-recognition and eligibility framework, not an automatic award for every pension contributor.

A home-secured retirement-income arrangement whose conditions, guarantee costs, occupancy and settlement rules require product-specific verification.

The risk of living longer than the period for which resources were planned, increasing the need for durable income.