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讲座题目：PENSION RISK MANAGEMENT WITH FUNDING AND BUYOUT OPTIONS

摘要：There has been a surge of interest in recent years from defined benefit pension plan sponsors in de-risking their plans with strategies such as “longevity hedges” and “pension buyouts” (Lin et al., 2015). While buyouts are attractive in terms of value creation, they are capital intensive and expensive, particularly for firms with underfunded plans. The existing literature mainly focuses on the costs and benefits of pension buyouts. Little attention has been paid to how to capture the benefits of de-risking within a plan’s financial means, especially when buyout deficits are significant. To fill this gap, we propose two options, namely a pension funding option and pension buyout option, that provide financing for both underfunded and well-funded plans to cover the buyout risk premium and the pension funding deficit, if a certain threshold is reached. To increase market liquidity, we create a transparent pension funding index, calculated from observed capital market indices and publicly available mortality tables as well as pension mandatory contributions, to determine option payoffs. A simulation based pricing framework is then introduced to determine the prices of the proposed pension options. Our numerical examples show that these options are effective and economically affordable. Moreover, our sensitivity analyses demonstrate the reliability of our pricing models.

主讲人：林一佳，内布拉斯加-林肯（UNL）金融学系终身教授，美国注册金融分析师（CFA），英国特许保险学会会员（Dip CII）。主要致力于长寿风险证券化研究、企业风险管理以及养老金定价管理等。近些年来，在Journal of Risk and Insurance（JIR），Insurance：Mathematics and Economics（IME）等期刊发表了关于长寿风险和养老金管理等一系列成果。

时间：2017年5月19日上午10:30-12:00

地点：学术会堂南楼506 (精算研究院会议室)

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