Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25522 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2007/21
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Retirees confront the difficult problem of how to manage their money in retirement so as to not outlive their funds while continuing to invest in capital markets. We posit a dynamic utility maximizer who makes both asset location and allocation decisions when managing her retirement financial wealth and annuities, and we prove that she can benefit from both the equity premium and longevity insurance in her retirement portfolio. Even without bequests, she will not fully annuitize; rather, her optimal stock allocation amounts initially to more than half of her financial wealth and declines with age. Welfare gains from this strategy can amount to 40 percent of financial wealth (depending on risk parameters and other resources). In practice, it turns out that many retirees will do almost as well by purchasing a variable annuity invested 60/40 in stocks/bonds.
Subjects: 
Portfolio Choice
Private Financial Services
Insurance
Personal Finance
Retirement Policies
Social Security
JEL: 
G11
G23
G22
D14
J26
H55
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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