The legal nature of Civil Servants Pension Fund's Assets

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Mojtaba Ghasemi ¹
• Ahmad Panjeh Por ²

¹ Assistant Professor of Economic Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

² PhD in Public Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

10.22067/economlaw.2025.87002.1355

Abstract

Pension funds play a vital and critical role in financing consumption in the retirement era in modern economies. In their maturity process, they accumulate assets from collected payrolls of members to make them able to cover part of their liabilities in the future from the returns of these assets. Civil Servants Pension Fund (CSPF) is one of Iran’s first and largest Pension funds. It has many active corporations in various sectors of Iran's economy. Regarding the bold role of the state in the administration of this pension fund, many (such as courts) think that corporations belonging to CSPF are state-owned. This paper purports to investigate the legal nature of these corporations from both realist and formalist perspectives. Findings show that these corporations are private, which has important implications for their relations with other persons, either natural or legal. We can extend this result to other similar pension funds in Iran.

Keywords

• Pension Scheme
• Pension Fund
• State-owned Enterprise
• Private Enterprise
• Payroll tax

Main Subjects

• Social Security Rights

©2024 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

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