Long-term minimum return guarantees sold by European life insurers increasingly become binding as interest rates decline. While participating contracts embedding these guarantees are designed to share market risk across investor cohorts when guarantees are not binding, we study how binding...

Ziel dieses Lehrtextes ist es, die Elemente einer betriebswirtschaftlich orientierten Entscheidungslehre weiter zu homogenisieren, d.h., die gemeinsamen Strukturen ihrer Modelle und deren Lösungsprinzipien zu verdeutlichen. Nach einigen grundlegenden Überlegungen zu deterministischen...

Empirical research in finance has documented a strong positive and convex relationship between investment performance and flows in and out of managed portfolios such as mutual funds. It is also well-known that fee contracts for portfolio managers give the manager a fixed-fraction of assets under...