With increasing longevity and decreasing fertility rates, governments and policy makers are increasingly engaged in the question of long term retirement planning. In many cases this has included emphasising the need for individuals to take more responsibility for their own retirement planning...

The retirement systems in many developed countries have been increasingly moving from Defined Benefit (DB) towards the Defined Contribution (DC) system. In such systems, financial and longevity risks are shifted from the pension provider to the retiree. This paper uses a probabilistic approach...

The global shift towards defined-contribution pension schemes has been accompanied by asymmetric risks and new responsibilities for households to plan and fund effectively their own retirement over the years. In this study, expressing and combining preferences for consumption, investment,...