Longevity Risk: To Bear or to Insure?
Boon, Ling-Ni; Brière, Marie; Werker, Bas (2020), Longevity Risk: To Bear or to Insure?, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 19, 3, p. 409-441. 10.1017/S1474747219000192
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Article accepté pour publication ou publiéExternal document link
https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2926902Date
2020Journal name
Journal of Pension Economics and FinanceVolume
19Number
3Pages
409-441
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We compare two contracts for managing systematic longevity risk in retirement: a collective arrangement that distributes the risk among participants, and a market-provided annuity contract. We evaluate the contracts’ appeal with respect to the retiree’s welfare, and the viability of the market solution through the financial reward to the annuity provider’s equityholders. We find that individuals find it more attractive to bear longevity risk under a collective arrangement than to insure it with a life insurers’annuity contract subject to insolvency risk (albeit small). Under realistic capital provision hypotheses, the annuity provider is incapable of adequately compensating its equity holders for bearing systematic longevity risk.Subjects / Keywords
longevity risk; group self-annuitization (GSA); insurance; variable annuity; D14; E21; G22; G23Related items
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