Current Developments in German Pension Schemes: What Are the Benefits of the New Target Pension?
| Autor: | Manuel Rach, An Chen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Statistics and Probability
Economics and Econometrics Pension 050208 finance Actuarial science business.industry Mathematical finance 05 social sciences Financial market Control (management) Beneficiary Discount points 01 natural sciences language.human_language German 010104 statistics & probability Variable (computer science) 0502 economics and business language Economics 0101 mathematics Statistics Probability and Uncertainty business Financial services Comparative advantage |
| Zdroj: | SSRN Electronic Journal. |
| ISSN: | 1556-5068 |
| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.3567733 |
| Popis: | We analyze the newly introduced German occupational pension scheme called target pension (“Zielrente”), which links the beneficiaries’ benefits during the retirement phase to the mortality experienced among the pension beneficiaries and the performance of the financial market, from a pension beneficiary’s perspective. We model the contract payoffs related to the target pension according to the new enhancement law on German occupational law. Specifically, we include two parameters in the plan design, one to control the surplus participation and one to control the loss participation. These parameters are chosen in such a way that the initial wealth of the retiree equals the initial value of the target pension. With the help of expected lifetime utility and wealth equivalent, we find that the target pension provides a meaningful supplement to the first and third pillar. Further, we find some comparative advantages of the target pension over the traditional pure defined benefit and some defined contribution plans from a policyholder’s point of view. Our analysis with reasonable parameter choices shows that target pension plans can be outperformed by defined contribution plans with variable annuities, while the latter are accompanied by a considerably higher ruin probability. |
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