Longevity Risk And Retirement Income Planning

The past 50 years have seen an abundance of research on retirement planning and longevity risk. Reviewed here is the academic side of the research and its varied viewpoints and nuances. The evolution of retirement risk models, retirement portfolio problems and solutions, and annuities are some of the many topics covered.

This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Create Your Own Pension Plan for a Secure Financial Future (9780137127375)by Moshe A. Milevsky, Ph.D. Available in print and digital formats. Learn how to systematically control the risks associated with your retirement–and avoid the massive blunders that millions of Americans are still making. One of the most egregious behavioral “sins” Professors Richard Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi have identified is the tendency of too many Americans to allocate too much of their 401(k) plan–and even their own investments–to company stock. Even after the notorious cases of Enron and Worldcom, more than 5,000,000 Americans have more than 60% of their retirement savings invested in their own company’s stock....

Mortality improvements, uncertainty in future mortality trends and the relevant impact on life annuities and pension plans constitute important topics in the field of actuarial mathematics and life insurance techniques. In particular, actuarial calculations concerning pensions, life annuities and other living benefits (provided, for example, by long-term care insurance products and whole life sickness covers) are based on survival probabilities which necessarily extend over a long time horizon. In order to avoid underestimation of the related liabilities, the insurance company (or the pension plan) must adopt an appropriate forecast of future mortality. Great attention is currently being devoted to the management of life annuity portfolios, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view, because of the growing importance of annuity benefits paid by private pension schemes. In particular, the progressive shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pension schemes has increased the interest in life annuities with a guaranteed annual amount. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed description of methods for projecting mortality, and an extensive introduction to some important issues concerning longevity risk in the area of life annuities and pension benefits. It relies on research work carried out by the authors, as well as on a wide teaching experience and in CPD (Continuing Professional Development) initiatives. The following topics are dealt with: life annuities in the framework of post-retirement income strategies; the basic mortality model; recent mortality trends that have been experienced; general features of projection models; discussion of stochastic projection models, with numerical illustrations; measuring and managing longevity risk.

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Guarantee your retirement income with a DIY pension Pensionize Your Nest Egg describes how adding the newapproach of "product allocation" to the tried-and-true assetallocation approach can help protect you from the risk of outlivingyour savings, while maximizing your income in retirement. This book demonstrates that it isn't the investor with the mostmoney who necessarily has the best retirement income plan. Instead,it's the investor who owns the right type of investment andinsurance products, and uses product allocation to allocate theright amounts, at the right time, to each product category. This revised second edition is expanded to include investorsthroughout the English-speaking world and updated to reflectcurrent economic realities. Readers will learn how to distinguish between the various typesof retirement income products available today, including lifeannuities and variable annuities with living income benefits, andhow to evaluate the features that are most important to meet theirpersonal retirement goals. Evaluate the impacts of longevity, inflation, and sequence ofreturns risk on your retirement income portfolio Make sense of the bewildering array of today's retirementincome products Measure and maximize your Retirement SustainabilityQuotient Learn how your product allocation choices can help maximizecurrent income or financial legacy — and how to select theapproach that's right for you Walk through detailed case studies to explore how to pensionizeyour nest egg using the new product allocation approach Whether you do it yourself or work with a financial advisor,Pensionize Your Nest Egg gives you a step-by-step plan tocreate a guaranteed retirement income for life.

A shifting retirement landscape demands that retirees seek new strategies that emphasize lifetime income. Many recent social, demographic, and economic factors have heightened the already significant risks around longevity. Lifetime Income to Retire with Strength addresses those changes and other issues retirees face through the lens of longevity risk. In an era where conventional retirement planning approaches are challenged, author Bruno Caron proposes an innovative new approach based on a strategic combination of asset management, insurance, risk pooling and income generation. Emphasizing the importance of lifetime income in retirement planning, Caron offers a logical rationale for considering investment and insurance tougher as two pillars critical to retirement income planning. The book's framework invites the retirees, pre-retirees and anyone interested in retirement planning to shift from the traditional "spending rate vs. probability of ruin" trade-off to a "spending rate vs. bequest" trade-off. Through historical, actuarial and logical perspectives, Caron examines the urgent challenges around retirement planning and offers thoughtful solutions based on his experience as an actuary, entrepreneur and stock and credit analyst.

Annuitization is one asset management strategy for retirees seeking to secure lifetime income. The US annuity marketplace offers a variety of annuity contracts, including single premium annuities, advanced life deferred annuities, variable annuities with lifetime income guarantee riders, and ruin contingent deferred annuities. Advisers seeking to provide guidance to clients in or near retirement can benefit by understanding (1) the arguments both for and against annuitization and (2) how a client’s interests might be best represented in the marketplace. Important annuity contract provisions are highlighted and briefly discussed so the adviser can become more familiar with retirement-planning options.

Clients nearing retirement have some significant challenges to face. And so do their advisers. They can expect to live far longer after they retire. And the problems they expect their advisers to solve are far more complex. The traditional sources of retirement income may be shriveling, but boomers don't intend to downsize their plans. Instead, they're redefining what it means to be retired—as well as what they require of financial advisers. Planners who aren't prepared will be left behind. Those who are will step up to some lucrative and challenging work. To help get the work done, Harold Evensky and Deena Katz—both veteran problem solvers—have tapped the talents of a range of experts whose breakthrough thinking offers solutions to even the thorniest issues in retirement-income planning: Sustainable withdrawals Longevity risk Eliminating luck as a factor in planning Immediate annuities, reverse mortgages, and viatical and life settlements Strategies for increasing retirement cash flow In Retirement Income Redesigned, the most-respected names in the industry discuss these issues and a range of others.