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This paper explores the effect of letting individuals choose their retirement age in a world of uncertainty where there … finds that it is preferable to let people make their retirement decision after rather than before the uncertainty is lifted …
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A simulation approach is used to investigate how various investment strategies affect the ability of retirees to spend at a desired level up until death. Retirees are assumed to maintain all investment and longevity risk, and also have access to a government-sponsored and means tested Age...
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advisers to retirement savers. The article also canvasses the customary role of an investment policy statement in promoting … that imposes on financial advisers to retirement savers “fiduciary” status under the Employee Retirement Income Security … Act. The Department reasoned that the fiduciary duty of loyalty was necessary to protect retirement savers from conflicted …
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Dynamic retirement glidepaths evolve over time based on some measure such as the retiree's funded status or current … static retirement glidepath would be the one that performs better than all others with respect to some metric. When … systematic withdrawals are made from a retirement portfolio, glidepaths are often assessed via the probability of ruin (or …
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The stock market collapse led to political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of the property rights over the pension funds’ wealth. The problem is best resolved by the introduction of generational accounts. Modern consumption and portfolio theory shows that the younger...
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The knowledge of equity style of PRS funds has benefited investors by mitigating the issue of asymmetric information between fund managers and investors. Using a return-based style analysis with PRS fund data from April 2013 to February 2015, our study found that: first, moderate funds have the...
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(compared to individual retirement accounts) since risk may be shared with future generations. We extend the OLG model of …
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I solve the optimal consumption and portfolio choice problem of a retiree who is endowed with both liquid assets and pre-annuitized wealth in Social Security. The retiree faces an investment menu including an equity index, a risk-free bond, a life insurance and a variable annuity. I find that...
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Retirement outcomes would be improved if retirees had access to insurance products that linked guaranteed, inflation …-adjusted income to life cycle investment portfolio strategies. Suitable retirement planning for individual, defined contribution plans … must concurrently account for trade-offs during the pre-retirement wealth accumulation phase of life as well as income …
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In this paper, we investigate the parallelization efficiency of the discrete time dynamic programming approach to solve dynamic portfolio choice models over the life cycle. This approach suffers from the so-called curse of dimensionality. That is, the time-to-result grows exponentially in the...
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