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Affordable and adequate annuities with stable payouts: Fantasy or reality?

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  • van Bilsen, Servaas
  • Linders, Daniël

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This paper introduces a class of unit-linked annuities that extends existing annuities by allowing portfolio shocks to be gradually absorbed into the annuity payouts. Consequently, our new class enables insurers to offer an affordable and adequate annuity with a stable payout stream. We show how to price and adequately hedge the annuity payouts in a general financial environment. In particular, our model accounts for various stylized facts of stock returns such as asymmetry and heavy-tailedness. Furthermore, the generality of our framework makes it possible to explore the impact of a parameter misspecification on the annuity price and the hedging performance.

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  • van Bilsen, Servaas & Linders, Daniël, 2019. "Affordable and adequate annuities with stable payouts: Fantasy or reality?," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 19-42.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:insuma:v:86:y:2019:i:c:p:19-42
    DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2019.01.010
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    Unit-linked annuities; Buffering of portfolio shocks; General financial market; Risk management framework; Model risk;
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    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing
    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies

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