Lifecycle portfolio choice with systematic longevity risk and variable investment-linked deferred annuities
By: Vasily Kartashov ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17505; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17505.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  This paper assesses the impact of variable investment-linked deferred annuities (VILDAs) on lifecycle consumption, saving, and portfolio allocation patterns given stochastic and systematic mortality.  Insurers have taken two approaches to manage systematic mortality risks, namely self-insurance and risk transfer to purchasers of the annuity products.  We demonstrate that self-insurance leads to high loadings, so that households offered a choice would favor the risk transfer scheme.  Reservation loadings on the actuarially fair VILDA price for non-participation are 0.5-8%; if insurers cannot hedge within this range, they will transfer systematic longevity risks to the annuitants.  Our findings have implications for new payout products that may be attractive to older households seeking to protect against retirement shortfalls"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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