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take more stock market risk compared to pension schemes based on individual retirement accounts, because current risks can … be shared with future generations. We setup a continuous time overlapping generations model with labor income risk and … optimal risk-sharing actually implies that collective pension funds should take less stock market risk, not more. If stock and …
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intergenerational risk sharing (IRS) rule.Through a simulation-based study, we show that the CDC scheme consistently outperforms the … comparable individual DC scheme in terms of risk-adjusted performance. An extensive sensitivity analysis indicates that this …
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maximum limits by asset class) in order to create funds with different risk-return profiles. In this article we challenge this … approach and show that such funds exhibit erratic risk-return profiles that deviate significantly from the intended design. We … propose to replace all minimum and maximum asset allocation constraints by a single risk metric (or measure) that controls …
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market instruments. Using intergenerational risk sharing arrangements, risks can be allocated better across the various …
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’s unique characteristics while suitably quantifying real asset return risk and longevity risk. To accomplish this complex goal …
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this context, we discuss which is the most suitable risk measurement for the affiliates to the pension system. Different … financial knowledge, inertia and myopia in decision-making. We calibrate a pension risk model for the Chilean economy, including … measures of life-cycle income, human capital risk, investment and annuitization risks. Our results suggest that affiliates can …
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The funding ratio is a financial indicator to measure the viability of pension funds. The paper analyzes how Swiss occupational pension funds' technical discount rate and asset allocation are related to the funding ratio. The paper shows that funds with weaker funding ratios apply higher rates...
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This paper examines the allocation of market risk in a general class of collective pension arrangements: Collective … Defined Contribution (CDC) schemes. In a CDC scheme participants collectively share funding risk through benefit level … participants receive an arbitrage-free return on the market risk they bear. The fact that the participants' claim on the CDC …
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and elected plan participants serving on the board, take more risk and use higher discount rates. The increased risk …
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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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