The economic significance of longevity risk for governments, corporations, and individuals has begun to be recognized and quantified. The traditional insurance route for managing this risk has serious limitations due to capacity constraints that are becoming more and more binding. If the 2010...

To identify an appropriate pension de-risking method, this paper proposes an optimization model that minimizes the expected total pension cost subject to a conditional value at risk (CVaR) constraint on pension funding level. Using this model, we examine three pension hedging strategies, i.e.,...

This article compares expected pension default losses of employees and retirees before and after pension buyouts. The comparisons are made using a stochastic model calibrated with market data. The employees remain in the defined benefit (DB) pension plan while the retirees become annuity holders...