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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

Optimal Mix Among PAYGO, EET and Individual Savings

In order to deal with the aging problem, pension system is actively transformed into the funded scheme. However, the funded scheme does not completely replace PAYGO (Pay as You Go) scheme and there exist heterogeneous mixes among PAYGO, EET (Exempt, Exempt, Taxed) and individual savings in different

Lab Rats Math 7.5 Rigor 3 ·  February 18, 2023

Optimal Reinsurance under Endogenous Default and Background Risk

This paper studies an optimal reinsurance problem for a utility-maximizing insurer, subject to the reinsurer’s endogenous default and background risk. An endogenous default occurs when the insurer’s contractual indemnity exceeds the reinsurer’s available reserve, which is random due to the backgroun

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 1.5 ·  January 10, 2025

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