IS THE ROMANIAN FINANCIAL MARKET PREPARED TO SUPPORT PENSION SYSTEM REFORM?

The paper outlines the challenges that a multi-pillar functional pension system may bring, considering the current state of development of the Romanian financial system, considering the macroeconomic stability, the current financial infrastructure and the existence of a regulatory and supervisory framework. After realizing an overview over the Romanian pension market, issues like the capacity of the domestic financial market of generating long-term returns and adequate financial instruments are also addressed from an analytical point of view.