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Retirement Planning with Minimum Guarantees for Both Beneficiaries and Fund Managers

This article studies a retirement planning problem from a new perspective in which a retiree delegates an initial lump sum to a professional fund manager. The fund is managed dynamically to deliver lifelong benefits while satisfying a guarantee that, at all times, wealth remains above a prescribed s

Lab Rats Math 9 Rigor 4 ·  October 5, 2026

Mean Field Analysis of Mutual Insurance Market

A mutual insurance company (MIC) is a type of consumer cooperative owned by its policyholders. By purchasing insurance from an MIC, policyholders effectively become member-owners of the company and are entitled to a share of the surplus, which is determined by their own collective claims and premium

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 3 ·  November 15, 2025

Optimal design of reinsurance contracts with a continuum of risk assessments

In this article, we employ a principal-agent model to analyze optimal contract design in a monopolistic reinsurance market under adverse selection with a continuum of insurer types. Instead of using the classical expected utility framework, we model each insurer’s risk preference through their VaR a

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 2 ·  April 24, 2025

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