Tag: longevity
As U.S. financial firms push toward embedding life annuities in 401(k) plans, it is useful to assess the risks, as well as the gains, associated with making annuitization the default distribution option. While default strategies have proven highly effective during the accumulation phase, approaches that work well for retirement saving may have unintended adverse consequences…
The unpredictability of one’s lifespan is a major difficulty in retirement planning and provides the impetus for insurance products guaranteeing lifetime income. It is well known that this variance of longevity differs across demographic and socioeconomic groups, but the patterns of this variance over time have not been studied…
