This paper analyzes investment strategies in the context of alternative hybrid pension plans which are optimal either from the perspective of the plan sponsor or the beneficiaries. The focus is in particular on how the introduction of minimum and maximum limits for pension benefits as well as...

In this paper, we study the benefits derived from the international diversification of stock portfo-lios from the Hungarian point of view. The Hungarian Stock Exchange is an emerging market, which reopened its floor on June 21, 1990 as a consequence of the so-called transition process having...

In this paper we study the benefits derived from international diversification of stock portfolios from German and Hungarian point of view. In contrast to the German capital market, which is one of the largest in the world, the Hungarian Stock Exchange is an emerging market. The Hungarian stock...

The present paper examines the long-term risks of a representative one-time investment in German stocks (DAX/0) in real terms relative to various risk free investments (returns of 0%, 2% and 4% in real terms) as well as relative to a representative investment in German bonds (REXP). As...

A Systematic Comparison of Pension Annuities and Self-Annuitization under the Criterion of Capital Exhaustion is presented. The present paper further develops the papers of Albrecht/Goebel (SFB 504 discussion paper 00-31) and Albrecht/Maurer (SFB 504 discussion paper 01-05). The new feature is...

In the present paper we examine a concept which we claim to be more suitable than traditional ones for measuring chance and risk of a stock portfolio when options are included. After the basic shortfall risk measures have been derived systematically, the connections between these measures are...

This paper analyses the temporal sequence of the shortfall-risk of a stock investment relative to fixed-target returns regarding investment periods of 1 up to 30 years. For this purpose we use three different risk-measures, namely the shortfall-probability, the shortfall-expectation as well as...