Automatic balancing mechanisms for notional defined contribution accounts in the presence of uncertainty |
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| Authors: | Jennifer Alonso-García María del Carmen Boado-Penas Pierre Devolder |
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| Institution: | 1. ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, UNSW Business School, Kensington, Australia.;2. Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, University of Liverpool, UK.;3. Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. |
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| Abstract: | The notional defined contribution model combines pay-as-you-go financing and a defined contribution pension formula. This paper aims to demonstrate the extent to which liquidity and solvency indicators are affected by fluctuations in economic and demographic conditions and to explore the introduction of an automatic balancing mechanism (ABM) into the pension scheme. We demonstrate that the introduction of an ABM reduces the volatility of the buffer fund and that, in most cases, the automatic mechanism that re-establishes solvency produces the highest value of the risk-adjusted notional factor. |
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| Keywords: | Actuarial analysis public pensions retirement solvency stochastic processes risk |
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