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Less is more: increasing retirement gains by using an upside terminal wealth constraint

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  • Catherine Donnelly

    (Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, and the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University)

  • Russell Gerrard

    (Cass Business School, City University London)

  • Montserrat Guillén

    (Department of Econometrics, Riskcenter-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona)

  • Jens Perch Nielsen

    (Cass Business School, City University London)

Abstract

We solve a portfolio selection problem of an investor with a deterministic savings plan who aims to have a target wealth value at retirement. The investor is an expected power utility-maximizer. The target wealth value is the maximum wealth that the investor can have at retirement. By constraining the investor to have no more than the target wealth at retirement, we find that the lower quantiles of the terminal wealth distribution increase, so the risk of poor financial outcomes is reduced. The drawback of the optimal strategy is that the possibility of gains above the target wealth are eliminated.

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  • Catherine Donnelly & Russell Gerrard & Montserrat Guillén & Jens Perch Nielsen, 2015. "Less is more: increasing retirement gains by using an upside terminal wealth constraint," Working Papers 2015-02, Universitat de Barcelona, UB Riskcenter.
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