Pension funds have adopted different management approaches to overcome the arising difficulties to maintain a solid financial status. Among these, there is the adoption of an indexation policy which is conditional on the solvability of the fund. Pension funds recognizing conditional inflation...

The chapter investigates the potential application of value-at-risk metrics to risk-adjusted performance measures in the case of structured portfolios. The main issue is the appraisal of a decision criterion for portfolio choices with reference to either the asset portfolio given a structured...