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Systematic longevity risk: to bear or to insure?

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  • Boon, Ling-Ni
  • Brière, Marie
  • Werker, Bas J. M.

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We compare two contracts for managing systematic longevity risk in retirement: a collective arrangement that distributes the risk among participants, and a market-provided annuity contract. We evaluate the contracts’ appeal with respect to the retiree's welfare, and the viability of the market solution through the financial reward to the annuity provider's equityholders. We find that individuals prefer to bear the risk under a collective arrangement than to insure it with a life insurers' annuity contract subject to insolvency risk (albeit small). Under realistic capital provision hypotheses, the annuity provider is incapable of adequately compensating its equityholders for bearing systematic longevity risk.

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  • Boon, Ling-Ni & Brière, Marie & Werker, Bas J. M., 2020. "Systematic longevity risk: to bear or to insure?," Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Cambridge University Press, vol. 19(3), pages 409-441, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jpenef:v:19:y:2020:i:3:p:409-441_8
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    1. Drake, Coleman & Ryan, Conor & Dowd, Bryan, 2022. "Sources of inertia in the individual health insurance market," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 208(C).
    2. Moshe A. Milevsky & Thomas S. Salisbury, 2024. "The Riccati Tontine: How to Satisfy Regulators on Average," Papers 2402.14555, arXiv.org.

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