Finance Books & Articles

Books

How to Build a Modern Tontine: Algorithms, Tips and Tricks

Retirement Income Recipes in R: From Ruin Probabilities to Intelligent Drawdown

Life Annuities: An Optimal Product for Retirement Income

Strategic Financial Planning over the Lifecycle: A Conceptual Approach

Lifetime Financial Advice: Human Capital, Asset Allocation, and Life Insurance

The Calculus of Retirement Income: Financial Models for Pension Annuities and Life Insurance

Pensionize™ Your Nest Egg: How to Use Product Allocation to Create a Guaranteed Income for Life

Are You a Stock or a Bond? Create Your Own Pension for a Secure Financial Future

Your Money Milestones: A Guide to Making the 9 Most Important Financial Decisions of Your Life

Longevity Insurance for a Biological Age: Why Your Retirement Plan Shouldn’t Be Based on the Number of Times You Circled the Sun

Articles

The Riccati Tontine: How to Satisfy Regulators on Average

Egalitarian Pooling and Sharing of Longevity Risk: Many Ways to Skin a Tontine Cat

Refundable Income Annuities: Feasibility of Money-back Guarantees

Calibrating Gompertz in Reverse: What is your longevity-risk-adjusted global age?

Swimming with Wealthy Sharks: Longevity, Volatility and the Value of Risk Pooling

The Utility Value of Longevity Risk Pooling: Analytic Insights

Retirement Spending and Biological Age

Optimal Purchasing of Deferred Income Annuities When Payout Yields are Mean-Reverting

Equitable Retirement Income Tontines: Mixing Cohorts Without Discriminating

Longevity Risk and Retirement Income Tax Efficiency: A Location Spending Rate Puzzle

The Sluggish And Asymmetric Reaction Of Life Annuity Prices To Changes In Interest Rates

Optimal Retirement Income Tontines

A Glide Path for Target Date Fund Annuitization

Rethinking RRIF Withdrawals: New Rates and Methodologies for New Realities

Mortality Plateaus and the Pricing of Longevity Insurance

Optimal Initiation of a GLWB in a Variable Annuity: No Arbitrage Approach

Can Collars Reduce Retirement Sequencing Risk? Analysis of Portfolio Longevity Extension Overlays (LEO)

Valuation and Hedging of the Ruin-Contingent Life Annuity

Optimal Retirement Consumption with a Stochastic Force of Mortality

Lifetime Ruin Minimization: Should Retirees Hedge Inflation or Just Worry About It?

Spending Retirement on Planet Vulcan: The Impact of Longevity Risk Aversion on Optimal Withdrawal Rates

Do Markets Like Frozen DB Pension Plans? An Event Study

Valuation of Mortality Risk via the Instantaneous Sharpe Ratio: Applications to Life Annuities

A Different Perspective on Retirement Income Sustainability

Portfolio Choice and Mortality-contingent Claims: The General HARA Case

Portfolio Choice and Life Insurance: The CRRA Case

Portfolio Choice with Puts: Evidence from Variable Annuities

Annuitization and Asset Allocation

The Timing of Annuitization: Investment Dominance and Mortality Risk

Killing the Law of Large Numbers: Mortality Risk Premiums and the Sharpe Ratio

Asset Allocation and Annuity Purchase Strategies to Minimize the Probability of Financial Ruin

Cleaning a Passive Index: How to Use Portfolio Optimization to Satisfy CSR Constraints

Human Capital, Asset Allocation and Life Insurance

Financial Valuation of Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefits

A Sustainable Spending Rate without Simulation

Waiting for Returns: Using Space–time Duality to Calibrate Financial Diffusions

Advanced Life Delayed Annuities: Introduction to Real Longevity Insurance with Deductibles

Probabilistic Investing: Or How to Win the Globe and Mail’s Stock Picking Contest

The Implied Longevity Yield: A Note on Developing an Index for Life Annuities

The Erosion of GIC Returns by Income Taxes and Inflation

Florida’s Pension Election: From DB to DC and Back

Ruined Moments in Your Life: How Good are the Approximations?

Illiquid Asset Allocation and Policy Weights

Asset Allocation and the Liquidity Premium for Illiquid Annuities

The Impact of Personal Income Taxes on Returns and Rankings of Canadian Equity Mutual Funds

A Continuous-Time Reexamination of Dollar-Cost Averaging

Space-Time Diversification: Which Dimension is Better?

Variable Annuities Versus Mutual Funds: A Monte-Carlo Analysis of the Options

Optimal Asset Allocation in Life Annuities: A Note

Mortality Derivatives and the Option to Annuitize

Mortality Swaps and Tax Arbitrage in the Canadian Insurance and Annuity Markets

The Titanic Option: Valuation of Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefits in Variable Annuities and Mutual Funds

Optimal Annuitization Policies

Self-Annuitization and Ruin in Retirement

International Equity Diversification and Shortfall Risk

Martingales, Scale Functions and Stochastic Life Annuities: A Note

Time Diversification, Safety-First and Risk

Hedging and Pricing with Tax Law Uncertainty: Managing Under an Arkansas Best Doctrine

Asian Options, The Sum of Lognormals and the Reciprocal Gamma Distribution

Optimal Asset Allocation Towards the End of the Life Cycle: To Annuitize or Not to Annuitize?

A Closed-Form Approximation for Valuing Basket Options

Valuing Exotic Options by Approximating the Spd with Higher Moments

A Theoretical Investigation of Randomized Asset Allocation Strategies

The Optimal Choice of Index-linked GICs: Some Canadian Evidence

The Present Value of a Stochastic Perpetuity and the Gamma Distribution

Asset Allocation Via The Conditional First Exit Time or How To Avoid Outliving Your Money

Tax Effects in Canadian Equity Option Markets

Asset Allocation, Life Expectancy and Shortfall