Optimizing the Aging, Retirement, and Pensions Dilemma

by Bertocchi , Marida; Schwartz, Sandra L.; Ziemba, William T.

• ISBN13: 9780470377345
• ISBN10: 0470377348
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A straightforward guide focused on life cycle investing-namely aging, retirement, and pensionsLife cycle investing and the implications of aging, retirement, and pensions continues to grow in importance. With people living longer, the relative and absolute number of retirees is growing while the number of workers contributing to pension funds is declining.This reliable resource develops a detailed economic analysis-at the micro (individual) and macro (economy wide) levels-which addresses issues regarding the economics of an aging population. Topics touched upon include retirement and the associated health care funding of the aged as well as social security and the asset classes that are considered asset-liability choices over time. The probability of achieving adequate return patterns from various investment strategies and asset classes is reviewed Shares rich insights on the aging, retirement, and pensions dilemma An assessment of the resources the real economy will be able to commit to non-workers is providedThe three pillars of retirement are social security, company pensions, and private savings. Each of these pillars is confronted with a variety of asset-liability problems, and this book will addresses them.

Author Biography

Marida Bertocchi is Professor of Portfolio Theory, University of Bergamo. She taught numerous courses at the Universities of Bergamo, Urbino and Milan, including basic and advanced calculus, mathematical finance, advanced mathematical finance, stochastic optimization, and parallel processing. Bertocchi has been Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and is the Director of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science and Applications, University of Bergamo. She is the author of numerous publications on bond portfolio management, asset allocation, quantitative finance, and economic and financial applications.

Sandra L. Schwartz received her interdisciplinary PhD from the University of British Columbia in commerce, economics, and ecology. She has taught business policy, business and society, and topics in research and development and applied economics at Berkeley, UCLA, Tsukuba, UBC, and Simon Fraser. Schwartz designed programs and courses for the Open University of BC. She is the author of a number of books on energy policy, Japanese management and economy, and other topics, as well as numerous articles.

William T. Ziemba is the Alumni Professor of Financial Modeling and Stochastic Optimization (Emeritus), University of British Columbia. He is a well-known academic with books, research articles, and talks on various investment topics and a columnist for Wilmott magazine. Ziemba has visited and lectured at MIT, University of Chicago, Berkeley, UCLA, Cambridge, LSE, Oxford, and the ICMA Centre. He trades through William T. Ziemba Investment Management Inc. He has consulted for various financial institutions including hedge funds, pension, and other investment institutions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Preface.

PART ONE The Aging Population: Issues for Retirement.

CHAPTER 1 Issues in Retirement.

1.1 Longevity and Changing Demographics across the World.

1.2 The Evolution of Retirement.

1.3 Provision for Retirement.

References.

CHAPTER 2 The Various Costs of Pensions: Macro and Micro.

2.1 Governmental Cost of Retirement.

2.2 Pensions and Capital Formation.

2.3 Regulating Corporate Pensions.

2.4 DC vs. DB: Shifting the Risks.

2.5 Freezing Pension Plans.

2.6 Where Do We Go from Here?

References.

CHAPTER 3 The Various Pillars of Retirement: Social Security, Company Pensions, Supplementary Pensions, and Private Savings.

3.1 Pillars of Retirement.

3.2 Reforming OECD Pensions.

3.3 Changing Role of Private Pensions.

3.4 Plans for Reforming Social Pensions.

3.5 Rethinking Pension Promises: Breaking the Fixed Link to a Monetary Value.

3.6 Intergenerational Risk-Sharing.

3.7 Conclusions.

3.8 Case Study: Public Sector vs. Private Pensions.

References.

CHAPTER 4 Asset Classes: Historical Performance and Risk.

4.1 Equities.

4.2 ETFs: Exchange-Traded Funds.

4.3 Bonds and Fixed Income.

4.4 The Bond-Stock Measure for Medium-Term Large Crash Prediction.

4.5 Hedge Funds.

4.6 Real Assets.

4.7 Housing as an Asset Class.

4.8 Gold and Other Commodities.

4.9 Private Equity and Related Assets.

4.10 Currencies.

4.11 Evaluation of Great Investors.

4.12 Fundamental and Seasonal Anomalies of Asset Returns.

References.

CHAPTER 5 The Current Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Retirement Decisions.

5.1 Household and Government Debt.

5.2 Were the Crash Models Helpful in Signaling the US and Worldwide 2007–2009 Crash?

5.3 The Subprime Crisis and How It Evolved.

5.4 Impact on Retirement Expectations.

5.5 Pensions in Trouble.

5.6 State Pensions.

5.7 Future ERP.

5.8 Future Inflation and Pensions.

References.

PART TWO Special Issues and Models.

CHAPTER 6 The Impact of Population Aging on Household Portfolios and Asset Returns.

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 The Empirical Evidence.

6.3 Models for Portfolio Choices and Life-Cycle Asset Allocations.

6.4 Conclusions.

References.

CHAPTER 7 A Continuous Time Approach to Asset-Liability Surplus Management.

7.1 The Rudolf-Ziemba (2004) Intergenerational Surplus Management Model.

7.2 A Case Study Application of the Rudolf-Ziemba Model.

References.

CHAPTER 8 Should Defined Benefit Pension Schemes Be Career Average or Final Salary?

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Career Average Defined Benefit Schemes.

8.3 Cost Neutrality.

8.4 Choosing the Revaluation Rate.

8.5 The Adoption of Career Average Pension Schemes.

8.6 Advantages of a Switch to a Career Average Scheme.

8.7 Disadvantages of a Switch to a Career Average Scheme.

8.8 Redistribution Effects of a Switch to Career Average Pensions.

8.9 Conclusions.

References.

CHAPTER 9 Applying Stochastic Programming to the US Defined Benefit Pension System.

9.1 Introduction.

9.2 Integrated Corporate/Pension Planning Model.

9.3 Assisting the Defined Benefit Pension System.

9.4 Conclusions.

References.

CHAPTER 10 Mortality-Linked Securities and Derivatives.

10.1 Introduction.

10.2 Longevity Risk Transfers.

10.3 Capital Market Solutions and the Development of Mortality-Linked Securities and Derivatives.

10.4 Recent Trends in Mortality-Linked Securities.

10.5 Hedging Pension Liabilities with Mortality-Linked Securities and Derivatives.

10.6 Conclusion.

References.

CHAPTER 11 Asset Allocation and Governance Issues of Government-Owned Pensions.

11.1 Introduction.

11.2 Types of Sovereign Funds.

11.3 Is There a Common Asset Allocation for Pension Funds?

11.4 Sovereign Pension Funds and International Capital Markets.

11.5 Governance Issues of Public Pension Funds.

11.6 Regional Trends.

11.7 Conclusion.

References.

CHAPTER 12 Issues in Individual Asset-Liability Management for Retirement.

12.1 Own Company Stock.

12.2 The Role of Annuities.

12.3 The Role of Insurance.

12.4 The Role of Managed Withdrawal Plans.

12.5 Where and How to Retire?

References.

PART THREE Modeling the Issues.

CHAPTER 13 Learning from Other Models.

13.1 Preserving Endowment Spending.

13.2 Devising a Rule So That Spending Never Falls.

References.

CHAPTER 14 The Innovest Austrian Pension Fund Financial Planning Model.

14.1 How Should Companies Fund Their Liabilities and Determine Allocations among Asset Classes and Hedging Instruments?

14.2 Formulating InnoALM as a Multistage Stochastic Linear Programming Model.

14.3 Some Typical Applications.

14.4 Some Test Results.

14.5 Model Tests.

References.

CHAPTER 15 An Individual ALM Model for Lifetime Asset-Liability Management.

References.

CHAPTER 16 Implementation and Numerical Results of Individual ALM Model for Lifetime Asset-Liability Management.

References.

CHAPTER 17 Conclusions.

Index.