We discuss business cycle effects on the management of a trust fund set up to provide regular income on a continuing basis. Fund managers must find a balance between short-term and long-term variability of income. In our model the managers know that the expected return is mean-reverting, but...

Although most of the theory development concerning risk measures has concentrated on convex or even coherent risk measures, nonconvex risk measures are used in practice, the prime example of course being Value-at-Risk. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relations between various...

Groups of agents, such as participants in a collective pension fund, can decide to undertake a joint investment and to define, ex ante, a rule for the division of proceeds. The collective investment decision and the allocation rule together form a risk sharing scheme. Such a scheme defines a...

This paper develops a pension product that is explicit about the pre-established goals that are aimed for. The proposed product presents a trade-off that is transparent in terms of required contributions, the income level targeted and guarantees offered. Depending on participants' preferences,...