The Calculus of Retirement Income : Financial Models for Pension Annuities and Life Insurance (Hardcover)

Preface; Part I. Models of Actuarial Finance: 1. Introduction and motivation; 2. Modeling the human life-cycle; 3. Models of human mortality; 4. Valuation models of deterministic interest; 5. Models of risky financial investments; 6. Models of pension life annuities; 7. Models of life insurance; 8. Models of DB vs. DC pensions; Part II. Wealth Management Applications and Implications: 9. Sustainable spending at retirement; 10. Longevity insurance revisited; Part III. Advanced Topics: 11. Options within variable annuities; 12. The utility of annuitization; 13. Book conclusions; Appendices.