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Immunization Strategies for Funding Multiple Liabilities

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  • Bierwag, G. O.
  • Kaufman, George G.
  • Toevs, Alden

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A number of recent papers have shown that it is possible for an investor to immunize a portfolio of default and option-free coupon bonds so that the return realized over a given planning period will never be less than that promised at the time the bonds were purchased. In this way, a future fixed dollar liability may be discharged with certainty by acquiring an asset portfolio with a market value equal to the present value of the liability and setting its appropriate duration equal to the time remaining to the date of discharge. However, most investors have more than one liability to discharge. In his seminal article in 1952, F. M. Redington showed that a stream of liabilities may be immunized if an asset portfolio having the same present value as the liabilities is selected so that:1. its duration is equal to the duration of the liabilities; and2. “the spread of the value of asset-proceeds about the mean term (duration) should be greater than the spread of the value of the liability†([16], p. 191).

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  • Bierwag, G. O. & Kaufman, George G. & Toevs, Alden, 1983. "Immunization Strategies for Funding Multiple Liabilities," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 18(1), pages 113-123, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:18:y:1983:i:01:p:113-123_01
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    1. Cláudia Simões & Luís Oliveira & Jorge M. Bravo, 2021. "Immunization Strategies for Funding Multiple Inflation-Linked Retirement Income Benefits," Risks, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-28, March.
    2. Patricia Knain Little, 1986. "Financial Futures And Immunization," Journal of Financial Research, Southern Finance Association;Southwestern Finance Association, vol. 9(1), pages 1-12, March.
    3. Victor Lapshin, 2021. "Immunizing a Marked-to-Model Obligation with Marked-to-Market Financial Instruments," HSE Working papers WP BRP 84/FE/2021, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    4. Nawalkha, Sanjay K., 1996. "A contingent claims analysis of the interest rate risk characteristics of corporate liabilities," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 227-245, March.
    5. Duan, J. & Sealey, C. W. & Yan, Y., 1999. "Managing banks' duration gaps when interest rates are stochastic and equity has limited liability," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 253-265, September.

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