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Demographic risk sharing in overlapping generations: the case of DC pension funds Daniel Gabay, CNRS, EHESS-CAMS and ESILV Martino Grasselli, Univ. Padova and ESILV on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Wolfgang Runggaldier Brixen July


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Demographic risk sharing in

  • verlapping generations:

the case of DC pension funds

Daniel Gabay, CNRS, EHESS-CAMS and ESILV Martino Grasselli, Univ. Padova and ESILV

  • n the occasion of the 65th birthday of

Wolfgang Runggaldier Brixen July 2007

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With Wolfgang:

  • Professor and much more
  • Pa-Pa no-crossing principle
  • Pension funds: back to the future
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Outline

1) Defined Benefit, Defined Contribution pen- sion funds 2) The classic actuarial approach: no market interaction and stationarity 3) The modern approaches for DB and DC 4) Demographic risk and generational overlap- ping: a delayed optimization problem 5) Optimal design of a DC pension scheme without market interaction 6) Adding the market: how can pension funds beat the market?

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MOTIVATIONS

1) reduction of the birth rate + 2) longer average life + 3) expanded school period and consequent 4) delay in beginning the working-life ⇓

Crisis of the pay-as-you-go system

3 PILLARS system:

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  • 1st PILLAR: pay-as-you-go pension

(France: ∼ 88% of total pension, about 68% in 2020)

  • 2nd PILLAR: collective pension by capi-

talization (France: ∼ 7,8% of total pension, should be 25% in 2020)

  • 3rd PILLAR: individual insurance contracts

(France: ∼ 0,9% of total pension, should be 3,3% in 2020)

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2nd PILLAR: PENSION FUNDS

  • Organisms established in order to assure

benefits to workers, when they mature the rights provided for by the regulation.

  • How much money do they manage?

10,000 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!!! (WITH 10% INCREASE/YEAR, see Boulier and Dupr´ e1999)

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DB and DC pension funds

  • Defined benefit plans:

solution preferred by workers, while the spon- soring employers will face the “contribution rate risk”

  • Defined contribution plans:

solution preferred by the corporate, because the investment’s risk is totally charged to the beneficiary (“solvency risk”) NOWADAYS:

  • Defined Contribution with minimum guar-

antee

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Actuarial approach: no mar- ket interaction

  • It is not possible for the trustee to directly

allocate the fund wealth into the financial market.

  • Asset Liability Management: equilibrium

between present value of contributions and present value of liabilities

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Standard stationarity assumptions

  • n:
  • exogenous fund returns (i.i.d.
  • r Wilkie

1987),

  • mortality rate
  • demographic variables (growth of popula-

tion, salary..) ↓ stability of the pension fund wealth. Haberman (1993a) and (1993b), Haberman (1994) and Haberman and Zimbidis (1993), Dufresne (1989), Cairns (1995), Cairns (1996) and Cairns and Parker (1996)

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Modern approach: interplay between Finance and Insur- ance

  • If the trustees of the fund have the possi-

bility to invest in a portfolio, fund returns depend on the funding method adopted (Boulier, Florens, Trussant 1995).

  • When market fall, also interest rates de-

crease, then fund wealth decreases and li- ability increase, so that ALM has strong interdependence with the allocation strat- egy (Martellini 2003)

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The DC scheme with minimum guarantee

What is the role of the guarantee? 0 ≤ EQ(GT) ≤ interest rate

  • It is a way to shift the risk from the con-

tributor to the manager of the fund

  • It is a way to transform a DC in a DB
  • It is a way to introduce attractive payoffs
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Literature:

  • Boulier, Huang and Taillard (2001): opti-

mal dynamic allocation with deterministic guarantee and Vasicek interest rates (finite horizon and CRRA utility)

  • Deelstra, Grasselli and Koehl (2003): op-

timal dynamic allocation with determinis- tic guarantee and CIR interest rates (finite horizon and CRRA utility)

  • Di Giacinto, Gozzi (2006):
  • ptimal dy-

namic allocation with deterministic guar- antee (infinite time span and general util- ity)

  • CPPI-OBPI based strategies: Pringent (2003),

El Karoui, Jeanblanc, Lacoste (2003) (also in the American guarantee)

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Guarantee on the entire wealth path:

Boyle and Imai (2000), Gerber and Pafumi (2000), El Karoui, Jeanblanc and Lacoste (2001)

Separation result:

Optimal strategy = strategy without guarantee +continuum of American put options

  • Superreplication constraint is too strong

(the Lagrange multiplier is a process: contin- uous time almost sure constraint) Quantile approach is perhaps better: Pr(Ft ≥ target) ≥ 1 − α

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Is there an optimal guarantee?

Optimal for whom? ACTORS:

  • 1 manager

Jensen and Sørensen (2000): the presence of the guarantee is an obstacle = ⇒ no guarantee!!

  • 1 manager + 1 client

Deelstra, Grasselli and Koehl (2003): necessity to specify how the fund surplus will be shared!! (F π

T − GT)

= Fund wealth - Guarantee = (1 − β) (F π

T − GT) + β(F π T − GT)

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Mortality risk

Insurance companies face this risk due to huge changes in mortality tables together with low interest rates (then increase in the liabilities)

  • Haberman et al. (2005-2007): convert an-

nuity into lumpsum and vice versa (pension funds typically hedge mortality risk by del- egating insurance companies)

  • Battocchio, Menoncin, Scaillet (2004), Menoncin

(2005), Menoncin, Scaillet (2005)

  • 1 ”representative” client, who works and

contributes during [0,a] (Accumulation Phase) and keeps pension till his death [a,τ] (De- cumulation Phase)

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  • Mortality risk modelled through a deter-

ministic distribution function for τ (Gom- pertz) ⇒ classic Merton trading strategy (see also PhD dissertation of Nicolas Rousseau, 1999)

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IN FACT:

El Karoui, Martellini (2001), Bouchard and Pham (2004), Zitkovic (2005),Blanchet-Scalliet, El Karoui, Jeanblanc and Martellini (2003) Utility maximization strategies with random hori- zon can be different from Merton’s strategies

  • nly if the random time distribution is corre-

lated with the market!!

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Demographic risk in a DC scheme

  • Colombo, Haberman (2005): Demographic

risk due to stochastic entry process (opti- mal contribution rate in a DB scheme with-

  • ut market!!)
  • Menoncin (2005) ”Cyclical risk exposure of

pension funds: a theoretical framework”: Demographic risk for a PAYG pension fund (no generational overlapping!!)

  • Gollier (2002), Demange and Rochet (2001)

repartition vs. capitalization!! ⇓

Almost no literature!

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Why?

  • DC schemes have been introduced to re-

move demographic risk typical of PAYG systems!!

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OPEN QUESTIONS AND MOTIVATIONS

  • 1) Is there a ”representative” client in a

pension fund? (overlapping generations..)

  • 2) What are the Accumulation and Decu-

mulation Phases for a pension fund?

  • 3) How to distinguish the ”mortality” (longevity)

and ”demographic” (fluctuations of global contribution) risk?

  • 5) Which is the advantage to enter a pen-

sion fund w.r.t. invest directly into the market? (apart from taxes, legal and ad- ministrative incentives..)

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A SIMPLE DEMOGRAPHIC RISK FRAMEWORK:

t = −a t = 0 t = T

  • At time t = −a the first clients (paying

contributions) enter the fund

  • The number of clients entering the fund is

described by a stochastic process ct includ- ing inflation and demographic fluctuations

  • At time 0 the first clients receive the pen-

sion (lumpsum!! annuity⇔ longevity risk!!) ⇒ [−a, 0] = FUND ”APh”

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  • At (a random) time T there are no more

clients paying contributions (T could be correlated with the market and fund per- formance!!)

  • At time T + a the last clients (entered at

time T) receive the (last lumpsum) pension ⇒ [T, T + a] = FUND ”DPh”

  • We focus on the FUND TRANSITORY

PHASE [0, T]: at each time there are new entries and pensions to be paid out!!

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THE FUND MANAGER PROBLEM:

  • Optimize fund performance
  • Design a suitable (socially fair) contract for

the fund clients allowing for demographic fluctuations ⇓ STOCHASTIC CONTROL PROBLEM WITH DELAY (pensions depends on past contributions!!)

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Delayed stochastic control

  • Typically difficult problem..
  • Make it Markovian by adding suitable state

variables by keeping finite the dimension

  • f the problem (Oksendal-Sulem 2002): it

works in very special cases

  • Embed the problem into an infinite dimen-

sional Markovian setting where state vari- ables belong to a Hilbert space (Gozzi-Marinelli 2004, Federico 2007): difficult to obtain explicit solutions even in simple cases

  • OTHER APPROACHES?..
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WARM UP: the delayed model without market

  • Participants entry at time t, pay a lumpsum

contribution ct and will receive a lumpsum pension at time t + a (No mortality risk for the participants!! and r = 0)

  • Ft fund wealth

dFt = (ct − ct−aft) dt F0 = x0, so that FT = x0 +

T

0 csds −

T

0 cs−afsds.

  • No possibility to invest fund wealth at a

rate greater than zero (not restrictive as- sumption)

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Aims of the manager

  • 1. grant (almost surely) a minimal benefit:

ft ≥ g a.s.

  • 2. maximize the expected utility function of

the clients receiving ct−aft at (current) time t;

  • 3. find the solvency admissibility conditions

for the fund (i.e. manage the ruin prob- ability)

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CRITERION:

J0 = sup

fs≥g

E

T+a

cs−aU (fs − g) ds

  • s.to : E
  • FT+a
  • ≥ K,
  • FT+a = fund wealth at the end of the De-

cumulation Phase: then ct = 0 for t > T

  • K is constant (typically K = x0−

−a csds =

initial fund reserve);

  • No Market ⇒ expectations are taken un-

der the historical (actuarial) measure (cer- taintly equivalent valuation)

  • cs−aU (fs − g) takes into account the ratio

benefit/number of clients (easy to extend to cγ

s−aU (fs − g) in order to allow for unions

power)

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Constraints

  • Terminal constraint in average leads to a

constant Lagrange multiplier!! (Ruin prob- ability could be > 0!!)

  • Under feasibility, Inada condition on U grants

ft ≥ g a.s. at optimality

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Solution by duality

Jt = inf

λ≥0 sup fs≥g

Et

T+a

t

cs−aU (fs − g) ds +λ

  • xt +

T

t

csds −

T+a

t

cs−afsds − K

  • = inf

λ≥0 sup fs≥g

Et

  • λ
  • xt +

T

t

csds − K

  • +

T

t

cs−aU (fs − g) ds − λ

T

t

cs−afsds

  • = inf

λ≥0 Et

  • λ
  • xt +

T

t

csds − g

T+a

cs−ads − K

  • +

sup

fs−g≥0

Et

T

t

cs−aU (fs − g) ds − λ

T

t

cs−a (fs − g) ds f∗

s = g + I (λ) , s ≥ t

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  • U (λ) = sup

x≥0

(U (x) − λx) , d dλ

  • U (λ) = −I (λ) ,

Jt = inf

λ≥0 Et

  λ

  • xt +

T

t csds − g

T+a

cs−ads − K

  • +

U (λ)

T−a

t−a Etcsds

  .

First order conditions on λ give = Et

  • xt +

T

t

csds − g

T+a

cs−ads − K

  • −I (λ)

T−a

t−a

Etcsds,

⇓ I

λ∗ =

E

  • x0 +

T

0 csds − g

T

−a csds − K

  • −a csds +

T

0 Ecsds

.

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The optimal solution and the admissibility condition

λ∗ ≥ 0 ⇓ 0 ≤ g ≤ x0 + E

T

0 csds − K −a csds +

T

0 Ecsds

= gmax. f∗

s = cs−a

g + I λ∗

= cs−a x0 +

T

0 Ecsds − K −a csds +

T

0 Ecsds

= cs−agmax

  • Pensioners receive a total benefit depend-

ing on the same rule!! (FAIR CONTRACT)

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Some remarks

  • gmax ≷ 1 depending on the possibility to

distribute the fund reserve, that is K ≶ x0−

−a csds

  • If K = 0 and x0 =

−a csds,then

f∗

s = g + I (λ)

= 1, (the fund simply gives back the contribu- tion)

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  • The following (perhaps more natural) fund

dynamics: dFt = (ct − ft) dt, (1) F0 = x0, (2) and the following criterion: J0 = sup

fs≥gcs−a

E

T

0 U (fs − gcs−a) ds

  • s.to : E
  • FT+a
  • ≥ K,

leads to the same admissibility conditions, but f∗

s

= gcs−a + I (λ) , UNFAIR!!!

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  • The case in which

dFt = (µFt + ct − ct−aft) dt F0 = x0, is handled similarly

  • F ∗

T+a may become negative!! (no trading

strategy to hedge the ruin probability)

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SECOND STEP: adding the market

  • With a market the optimal trading strat-

egy can (partially) replicate the contribu- tion process!! dFt = (σθπtFt + ct − ct−aft) dt + FtσπtdWt (3) F0 = x0, (4) where σ = volatility of the risky asset θ = risk premium of the risky asset πt = dynamic trading strategy Wt = B.m. under the historical (actuarial) measure P

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The problem in a complete market

J0 = sup

π

sup

fs≥g

E

T

0 cs−aU (fs − g) ds

  • (5)

s.to : E

  • HT+aF π

T+a

  • ≥ K,
  • Risk neutral valuation in the budget con-

straint!! dHt Ht = −θdWt H0 = 1,

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The solution by duality

f∗

s = g + I (λHs) , MOVING!!

  • The case

I(xy) = I(x)I(y) (ex. power or log utility) ⇓ I

λ∗ =

x0 +

T

0 E [Hscs] ds − g

T

−a E

  • Hs+acs
  • ds − K

T+a

E [HsI (Hs) cs−a] ds

,

  • ADMISSIBILITY:

0 ≤ g < x0 +

T

0 E [Hscs] ds − K

T

−a E

  • Hs+acs
  • ds

.

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Optimal strategy (martingale representation)

HtF ∗

t −

t

0 Hs

cs − cs−af∗

s

ds = martingale

⇓ HtF π

t

= Et

HTF π

T

− Et T

t

Hs (cs − cs−afs) ds = Et

  • g

T

T−a Hs+acsds + S∗

  • − Et

T

t

Hs (cs − cs− ⇓ ITO + identify the Brownian terms to find π

  • With the market the fund manager can

hedge the terminal fund wealth

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Can pension funds beat individual plans?

EXAMPLE:

  • Logarithmic utility
  • g = 0 (pure DC plan)
  • individual initial wealth: y0 = 1
  • individual time horizon: a
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Individual benefit:

sup

π E [ln (Xa)]

s.to : E [HaXa] = 1, ⇓ X∗

a = 1

Ha

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Pension fund benefit:

f∗

a

= 1 λHa = 1 Hs x0 +

T

0 E [Hscs] ds − K −a csds +

T

0 E [cs] ds

X∗

a

< f∗

a

  • 1

< x0 +

T

0 E [Hscs] ds − K −a csds +

T

0 E [cs] ds

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Suppose x0 =

−a cs Hsds, K = 0

f∗

a > X∗ a

  • −a

cs Hs ds+

T

0 E [Hscs] ds > −a csds+

T

0 E [cs] ds

  • −a cs

1

Hs − 1

  • ds +

T

  • EQ [cs] − EP [cs]
  • > 0
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SOME REMARKS:

  • If in the past Hs > 1 (i.e. market returns

were good) then individual will choose to enter the fund only if EQ [cs] >> EP [cs]

  • If in the past Hs < 1 (i.e. market returns

were not good) then individual will choose to enter the fund even if EQ [cs] < EP [cs], but there will exist a maximal T ∗ for which this choice is possible.

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When EQ [cs] > EP [cs] ? Intuition: when market returns are negatively correlated with the contribution process: EQ [cs] =

EP [Hscs] > EP [cs]

IDEA the investment problem for the fund is special because its initial wealth is RANDOM, then it can use the correlation between ct and Ht in order to make EQ [cs] > EP [cs]

  • Explicit examples with special ct (log-normal,

Vasicek, ..)

  • Contribution correlated by not generated

by the (incomplete) market

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Work in progress

  • Asymptotic behavior of the optimal solu-

tion when T → +∞

  • Ruin probability of the fund: mean-variance

analysis

  • American guarantee on the fund wealth