Financial Innovation for an Aging World
52 Pages Posted: 3 Aug 2006
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Financial Innovation for an Aging World
Financial Innovation for an Aging World
Date Written: 2006
Abstract
Over the last half-century, around the world, many nations have seen plummeting fertility rates and mounting life expectancies. These two factors are the engine behind unprecedented global aging. In this paper, we explore how the demographic transition may influence financial markets and, in turn, how financial market innovation might help resolve concerns flowing from global aging trends. We first provide context by reviewing the economics, finance, and insurance-related literature on how global aging patterns may influence capital markets. We then turn to insurance markets, and discuss a range of products and policies, including both retail and wholesale financial offerings for various forms of life annuities, long-term care benefits, reverse mortgages, securitization of longevity risk, inflation-protected assets, reinsurance, guarantees, derivative contracts on residential property price indices, mortality swaps and longevity derivative contracts. We also indicate how new public-private partnerships might be beneficial in enhancing the future environment for old-age risk management.
Keywords: Aging, insurance, old-age risk, annuities, pensions, long-term care, reverse mortgage, securitization, longevity risk, guarantee, mortality swaps
JEL Classification: G22, G23, J11, J14, J18, J21, J26, N2
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