Die regulatorischen Kapitalanforderungen für Banken stellen häufig keine korrekte Erfassung des tatsächlichen ökonomischen Ausfallrisikos von mit Eigenkapitel zu unterlegenden Forderungen dar. Diese Diskrepanz zwischen ökonomischer und regulatorischer Kapitalunterlegung wirft insbesondere...

Target Date Funds (TDFs) have become the default investment choice in retirement accounts for most households. Later-dated TDFs (e.g., further away from the present day) allocate a more significant percentage of each dollar invested into equities relative to fixed income. As the TDF moves closer...

Guarantees are often seen as the key characteristics of pension saving products, but securing them can become costly and is of central relevance especially in the course of the current low interest rate environment. In this article, we deal with the question of how costly the typical types of...