Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement

32 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2007 Last revised: 13 Nov 2022

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Wolfram J. Horneff

Deka Investment

Raimond Maurer

Goethe University Frankfurt - Finance Department

Olivia S. Mitchell

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School; University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Pension Research Council; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Michael Z. Stamos

Allianz Global Investors

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Date Written: February 2007

Abstract

Retirees confront the difficult problem of how to manage their money in retirement so as to not outlive their funds while continuing to invest in capital markets. We posit a dynamic utility maximizer who makes both asset location and allocation decisions when managing her retirement financial wealth and annuities, and we prove that she can benefit from both the equity premium and longevity insurance in her retirement portfolio. Even without bequests, she will not fully annuitize; rather, her optimal stock allocation amounts initially to more than half of her financial wealth and declines with age. Welfare gains from this strategy can amount to 40 percent of financial wealth (depending on risk parameters and other resources). In practice, it turns out that many retirees will do almost as well by purchasing a variable annuity invested 60/40 in stocks/bonds.

Suggested Citation

Horneff, Wolfram J. and Maurer, Raimond and Mitchell, Olivia S. and Stamos, Michael Z., Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement (February 2007). NBER Working Paper No. w12942, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=965134

Wolfram J. Horneff

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Raimond Maurer

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