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Self-selection and risk sharing in a modern world of life-long annuities [PDF]
, 2018 Communicating a pension product well is as important as optimising the financial value. In a recent study, we showed that up to 80% of the value of a pension lump sum could be lost if customer communication failed.
Gerrard, R. J. G. +3 more
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Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.Mechanical vapor recompression integration in distillation is analyzed, focusing on feed preheating and column pressure drop. Binary methanol–water and benzene–toluene separations are studied to identify optimal designs, which are further assessed in a bioethanol vacuum distillation sequence regarding energetic, ecological, and economic performance ...
Thorben Hochhaus +3 more
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Defossilisation of the Energy Supply of a Chemical Site by Integration of a Carnot Battery
Chemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.This study presents the results of a techno‐economic analysis of CO2‐free energy supply concepts for electricity and heat for the defossilisation of a chemical park in Germany for the model years 2030 and 2045. The focus is on the integration of a Carnot battery with thermal energy storage, which enables the flexible use of green fuels and renewable ...
Martin Bolten +6 more
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Revue de la Régulation, 2018 Assets financialisation isn’t new. But the advent of financial holdings has recomposed wealthy people morphology. These transformations blur common divisions - labor and capital, private and professional wealth, inheritance and recent fortunes - which ...
Camille Herlin-Giret
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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Ratio Mathematica, 2015 This paper proposes an expression of the value of an annuity with payments of 1 unit each when the interest rate is random. In order to attain this objective, we proceed on the assumption that the non-central moments of the capitalization factor are ...
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +2 more
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A unified pricing of variable annuity guarantees under the optimal stochastic control framework [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, we review pricing of variable annuity living and death guarantees offered to retail investors in many countries. Investors purchase these products to take advantage of market growth and protect savings. We present pricing of these products
Luo, Xiaolin, Shevchenko, Pavel V.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Asset managers, private equity firms and other institutional investors have assumed an increasingly important role in the ownership and management of housing and infrastructure since the Global Financial Crisis. This article analyses how social housing in London is being transformed into a financial asset through an analysis of ‘income strip ...
Aretousa Bloom, Joe Penny
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Evolution of Contributions Paid by Pension Participants [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2020 The current value of the pension is a measure of the value of future pension benefit flows, being defined as the amount needed at the time of retirement to purchase an annuity that generates the same payment flows as those promised by pension schemes ...
Tudor Colomeischi
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Coresidence: How parental characteristics matter
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Coresidence in the parental home is known to depend on young adult characteristics and market conditions, but there is more limited knowledge on whether or how parental characteristics matter. We model the coresidence outcome as a multigenerational joint optimization decision and use Panel Study of Income Dynamics data to examine the ...
Arthur Acolin +2 more
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