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The regulation on the Belgian occupational pension schemes has been recently changed. The new law allows for employers to choose between two different types of guarantees to offer to their affiliates. In this paper, we address the question arising naturally: which of the two guarantees is the...
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This paper analyzes how individuals value the two main payout options of retirement wealth accrued in a pension plan: a lifelong income stream offered via an annuity or as a lumpsum. A better knowledge of the drivers behind the financial valuation of pension options contributes to the...
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escalation and inflation linked options), bond ladders, and investment portfolio. Assuming an annual decline in expenditure of 1 …, while a bond ladder provides the best solution when the baseline income is greater than about 20% of the initial portfolio …
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some probability of ruin in either case: the bond portfolio may be exhausted while the bettor is still alive, or the bettor … may die before the bond portfolio runs down. The paper applies a historical rather than mathematical lens to calculate the … bond yields are very low. However, if the annuity provider cannot harvest a spread over the safe government bond yield and …
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insurances for two crops in three districts each. We then estimate the parameters of rainfall bond and rainfall call option with …
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In this paper, we show numerically how to calculate the price of bond options, swaps, caps and floors for Levy one …
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embedded in a typical fixed coupon bond with finite maturity. The contribution of the research is the conclusion about the … embedded call/put option to the bond structure and assume the call/put option to be exercised in case of interest rates decline …
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