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Optimal life insurance with no-borrowing constraints: duality approach and example

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  • Xudong Zeng
  • James M. Carson
  • Qihong Chen
  • Yuling Wang

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We solve an optimal portfolio choice problem under a no-borrowing assumption. A duality approach is applied to study a family’s optimal consumption, optimal portfolio choice, and optimal life insurance purchase when the family receives labor income that may be terminated due to the wage earner’s premature death or retirement. We establish the existence of an optimal solution to the optimization problem theoretically by the duality approach and we provide an explicitly solved example with numerical illustration. Our results illustrate that the no-borrowing constraints do not always impact the family’s optimal decisions on consumption, portfolio choice, and life insurance. When the constraints are binding, there must exist a wealth depletion time (WDT) prior to the retirement date, and the constraints indeed reduce the optimal consumption and the life insurance purchase at the beginning of time. However, the optimal consumption under the constraints will become larger than that without the constraints at some time later than the WDT.

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  • Xudong Zeng & James M. Carson & Qihong Chen & Yuling Wang, 2016. "Optimal life insurance with no-borrowing constraints: duality approach and example," Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2016(9), pages 793-816, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:sactxx:v:2016:y:2016:i:9:p:793-816
    DOI: 10.1080/03461238.2015.1025822
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