Document Type
Working Paper
Date of this Version
2-1-2001
Abstract
This paper proposes a new approach to investing for retirement that takes advantage of recent market innovations and advances in finance theory to improve the risk/reward opportunities available to individual investors before and after retirement. The approach introduces three new elements: 1. It uses inflation-protected bonds to hedge a minimum standard of living after retirement; 2. It takes account of a person’s willingness to postpone retirement, and 3. It uses option “ladders” to lever growth in retirement income.
Working Paper Number
WP2001-08
Copyright/Permission Statement
©2001 Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. All Rights Reserved.
Date Posted: 13 September 2019