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Retirement Annuity Design in an Inflationary Climate / Zvi Bodie, James E. Pesando.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodie, Zvi.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w0896.
- NBER working paper series no. w0896
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1982.
- Summary:
- This paper examines the tilt and risk-return characteristics of real retirement incomes provided by variable annuities tied to bills, long-term bonds, stocks and a mixed portfolio which combines all three. The analysis emphasizes the riskiness of the real value of benefits provided by conventional nominal annuities. The Rockefeller Foundation Plan, together with the "ad hoc" cost-of-living adjustments made by many large firms, are interpreted as representative market responses to increased inflation uncertainty. The paper examines the annuity designs implicit in these innovations, and shows them to be variants of the standard variable annuity.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 1982.
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