We study the demand for retirement products given access to innovative plans which depend on the realized survival probabilities, like tontines, in addition to traditional annuities. Preferences of agents are modeled by a generalized life-cycle utility function allowing for temporal risk...

Many empirical studies confirm that policyholder's subjective mortality beliefs deviate from the information given by publicly available mortality tables. In this study, we look at the effect of subjective mortality beliefs on the perceived attractiveness of retirement products, focusing on two...

We study the demand for retirement products given that individuals have access to innovative plans depending on the realized survival probabilities, like tontines, in addition to traditional annuities. Preferences of agents are modeled by a generalized life-cycle utility function allowing for...

Increases in the life expectancy, the low interest rate environment and the tightening solvency regulation have led to the rebirth of tontines. Compared to annuities, where insurers bear all the longevity risk, policyholders bear most of the longevity risk in a tontine. Following Donnelly and...