中国城乡居民养老制度可持续性的精算研究

围绕我国城乡居民养老保险体系可持续化问题,从中国实际出发,分层次、多角度的分析了当前我国的养老保险制度.首先,针对中国养老保险基金问题,基于当前养老保险体制,分别从三个层次入手,建立中国城乡居民养老保险基金收支模型;其次,基于养老制度的可持续性,建立了养老金缺口模型,并对养老金缺口的未来趋势进行了合理预测;最后,对所建立的模型进行了评价及推广.     

可持续的中国城乡居民养老保险体系的数学模型研究

考虑了替代率、缴费率、人口结构、分年龄段死亡率、经济增速、财政补贴、工资水平、投资效益,引入收缴率、通货膨胀率等当今影响养老保险的活跃因素,建立了"城乡结合"的中国城乡基本养老保险收支跨期叠代模型,并在此基础上进行优化.通过仿真,探讨了替代率和缴费率的合理区间.     

Actuarial model and its application for implicit pension debt in China

Whether the pension system transition is successful is closely related to the accurately accounted IPD amount and rationally solved scheme. China faces the problem of IPD with no exception. This paper uses individual cost method theory, combining Chinese pension system and its operation, builds up the implicit pension debt calculation model, then it measures the Chinese IPD quantity by statistical data. The paper finds out that the average IPD per-year is 39.404 billion Yuan in 2013–2050, the maximum is 185.053 in 2022, the minimum is 0.150 in 2050, and the accumulative IPD will sustain growth with annual growth rate of 7.06% in 2013–2050, from 119.787 billion Yuan to 1497.337 billion Yuan. Finally, this paper proposes the government to raise the legal retirement age, reduce the pension substitution rate, expand the coverage of endowment insurance, improve the investment yield of the pension fund, and so on, to compensate the IPD in China.     

利用生命表函数对银川市职工养老保险基金进行分析预测

利用生命表函数对银川市职工养老基金进行分析预测.研究近期、中期养老保险基金收支、就业、人口、城市化、老龄化的变化态势.提出保持养老保险制度健康持续发展的建议.     

A risk-based model for the valuation of pension insurance

In the US, defined benefit plans are insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Taking account of the fact that the PBGC covers only the residual deficits of the pension fund the sponsoring company is unable to cover and that the plans can be prematurely terminated, we consider a model that accounts for the joint dynamics of the pension fund’s and sponsoring firm’s assets in order to effectively determine the risk-based pension premium for the insurance provided by the PBGC. We obtain a closed-form pricing formula for this risk-based premium. Its magnitude depends highly on the investment portfolio of the pension fund and of the sponsoring company as well as the correlation between these two portfolios.     

A stochastic programming model for asset liability management of a Finnish pension company

This paper describes a stochastic programming model that was developed for asset liability management of a Finnish pension insurance company. In many respects the model resembles those presented in the literature, but it has some unique features stemming from the statutory restrictions for Finnish pension insurance companies. Particular attention is paid to modeling the stochastic factors, numerical solution of the resulting optimization problem and evaluation of the solution. Out-of-sample tests clearly favor the strategies suggested by our model over static fixed-mix and dynamic portfolio insurance strategies. Financial support from the Foundation for the Helsinki School of Economics under grants number 9981114 and 9981117 for P. Hilli and M. Koivu is gratefully acknowledged. The work of T. Pennanen was supported by Finnish Academy under contract no. 3385     

Solvency of an Insurance Company in a Dual Risk Model with Investment: Analysis and Numerical Study of Singular Boundary Value Problems

Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics - The survival probability of an insurance company in a collective pension insurance model (so-called dual risk model) is investigated in the case...     

Optimal investment for a pension fund under inflation risk

This paper investigates an optimal investment problem faced by a defined contribution (DC) pension fund manager under inflationary risk. It is assumed that a representative member of a DC pension plan contributes a fixed share of his salary to the pension fund during the finite time horizon [0, T]. The pension contributions are invested continuously in a risk-free bond, an index bond and a stock. The objective is to maximize the expected utility of terminal value of the pension fund. By solving this investment problem we present a way to deal with the optimization problem, in case there is a (positive) endowment (or contribution), using the martingale method.     

Purchasing life insurance to reach a bequest goal

We determine how an individual can use life insurance to meet a bequest goal. We assume that the individual’s consumption is met by an income from a job, pension, life annuity, or Social Security. Then, we consider the wealth that the individual wants to devote towards heirs (separate from any wealth related to the afore-mentioned income) and find the optimal strategy for buying life insurance to maximize the probability of reaching a given bequest goal. We consider life insurance purchased by a single premium, with and without cash value available. We also consider irreversible and reversible life insurance purchased by a continuously paid premium; one can view the latter as (instantaneous) term life insurance.     

Stochastic portfolio specific mortality and the quantification of mortality basis risk

In the last decade a vast literature on stochastic mortality models has been developed. However, these models are often not directly applicable to insurance portfolios because:

(a) For insurers and pension funds it is more relevant to model mortality rates measured in insured amounts instead of measured in the number of policies.

(b) Often there is not enough insurance portfolio specific mortality data available to fit such stochastic mortality models reliably.

Therefore, in this paper a stochastic model is proposed for portfolio specific mortality experience. Combining this stochastic process with a stochastic country population mortality process leads to stochastic portfolio specific mortality rates, measured in insured amounts. The proposed stochastic process is applied to two insurance portfolios, and the impact on the Value at Risk for longevity risk is quantified. Furthermore, the model can be used to quantify the basis risk that remains when hedging portfolio specific mortality risk with instruments of which the payoff depends on population mortality rates.     

Return smoothing mechanisms in life and pension insurance: Path-dependent contingent claims

Traditional with-profits pension saving schemes have been criticized for their opacity, plagued by embedded options and guarantees, and have recently created enormous problems for the solvency of the life insurance and pension industry. This has fueled creativity in the industry’s product development departments, and this paper analyzes a representative member of a family of new pension schemes that have been introduced in the new millennium to alleviate these problems. The complete transparency of the new scheme’s smoothing mechanism means that it can be analyzed using contingent claims pricing theory. We explore the properties of this pension scheme in detail and find that in terms of market value, smoothing is an illusion, but also that the return smoothing mechanism implies a dynamic asset allocation strategy which corresponds with traditional pension saving advice and the recommendations of state-of-the-art dynamic portfolio choice models.     

Levelling the playing field: A VIX-linked structure for funded pension schemes

In this article, we study intergenerational risk and cost sharing for a variety of collective funded pension plans. Inspired by the literature on contingent claim analysis in pension insurance, we derive time-varying contribution and benefit levels. The latter specifically include the fund surplus, which accounts for (intergenerational) risk sharing, and the VIX, which is related to cost sharing among generations. We find that pension schemes with a well-structured volatility-risk-adjusted component can be welfare enhancing for the entry and future cohorts. In addition, these schemes are fair from an ex ante perspective, provide adequate consumption profiles and high levels of satisfaction.     

F题“可持续的中国城乡居民养老保险体系的数学模型研究”(综述)

随着经济的结构性放缓以及人口老龄化的迅速到来,中国未来的养老金支付将面临很大的挑战.如何保持社会养老保险体系的可持续健康发展?这是2013年全国研究生数学建模竞赛试题之一(F题).对此作一综述.     

Bayesian modelling of financial guarantee insurance

In this paper we model the claim process of financial guarantee insurance, and predict the pure premium and the required amount of risk capital. The data used are from the financial guarantee system of the Finnish statutory pension scheme. The losses in financial guarantee insurance may be devastating during an economic depression (i.e., deep recession). This indicates that the economic business cycle, and in particular depressions, must be taken into account in modelling the claim amounts in financial guarantee insurance. A Markov regime-switching model is used to predict the frequency and severity of future depression periods. The claim amounts are predicted using a transfer function model where the predicted growth rate of the real GNP is an explanatory variable. The pure premium and initial risk reserve are evaluated on the basis of the predictive distribution of claim amounts. Bayesian methods are applied throughout the modelling process. For example, estimation is based on posterior simulation with the Gibbs sampler, and model adequacy is assessed by posterior predictive checking. Simulation results show that the required amount of risk capital is high, even though depressions are an infrequent phenomenon.     

允许赤字的MAP风险过程首达时

保险公司作为负债经营的特殊企业,其偿付能力受到监管部门的约束,本文以公司负债经营为前提研究其各种首次时.考虑MAP风险过程,即存在一随机背景Markov过程,索赔到达与索赔大小同时受这一背景过程影响,索赔到达为Markov到达点过程(MAP),索赔大小对于不同的背景状态具有不同的分布.本文给出首达时满足的积分-微分方程,通过求解带边界条件的积分-微分方程,给出了盈余过程从初始盈余水平到达某一给定盈余水平的首达时的Laplace变换的矩阵表示式,并由此推得了盈余过程到达指定水平的若干首达事件概率.     

A new defined benefit pension risk measurement methodology

Defined benefit pension plan sponsors have taken on greater risks for sponsoring these plans in the last several years. Due to ever increasing concerns of longevity risk and the weak economic environment, sponsors are eager to understand their pension-related risks to facilitate optimal enterprise decision-making. Borrowing an analytical framework from the life insurance and annuity industry where the amount of risk is framed in terms of the total assets required to remain solvent over a one-year period with a high level of confidence, i.e., the economic capital approach, this paper develops a benchmark risk measure for pension sponsors by obtaining a total asset requirement for sustaining the pension plan. The difference between the total asset requirement and the actual trust assets thus provides a measure of sponsor assets at risk due to plan sponsorship. Two factor-based approaches are proposed for this calculation. The first approach develops a set of pension-specific factors as if the pension plan were a group annuity. The second approach directly simulates the risk drivers of the pension plan and develops a framework for obtaining factors and calculating the pension risk given a desired confidence level. Our approach is very easy to implement and monitor in practice.     

Valuation of risk-based premium of DB pension plan with terminations

This paper concentrates on the premium valuation of pension insurance provided by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). The PBGC provides a defined benefit pension sponsor with coverage in case that the pension fund fails to make pension payments as promised or that the plan sponsor does not stay in business any more. In practice, both the pension fund and the sponsor assets play a critical role in fulfilling the commitment of pension payments, and thereby it is not reasonable to isolate the risk of distress termination of the sponsor assets from that of the premature termination of the pension fund. Different from previous works in which the premature termination of the pension fund and the distress termination of the sponsor assets are analyzed separately, our model examines the situation in which retirees suffer the risk of two types of terminations at the same time. We evaluate the risk-based fair premium under the framework that the pension fund and the sponsor assets are correlated and subject to the risk of the involuntary termination (i.e., premature termination) and the distress termination, respectively. In this framework, we manage to obtain closed-form pricing formulas. Our model is more practical because of the realistic design of termination schemes. Numerical simulations are also carried out to demonstrate our findings. Our numerical experiments validate that a variable rate premium is more appropriate for the PBGC to implement.     

Optimal management and inflation protection for defined contribution pension plans

Due to the increasing risk of inflation and diminishing pension benefits, insurance companies have started selling inflation-linked products. Selling such products the insurance company takes over some or all of the inflation risk from their customers. On the other side financial derivatives which are linked to inflation such as inflation linked bonds are traded on financial markets and appear to be of increasing popularity. The insurance company can use these products to hedge its own inflation risk. In this article we study how to optimally manage a pension fund taking positions in a money market account, a stock and an inflation linked bond, while financing investments through a continuous stochastic income stream such as the plan member’s contributions. We use the martingale method in order to compute an analytic expression for the optimal strategy and express it in terms of observable market variables.     

Optimal pension fund management under multi-period risk minimization

In this paper, a multi-period stochastic optimization model for solving a problem of optimal selection of a pension fund by a pension plan member is presented. In our model, members of the pension plan are given a possibility to switch periodically between J types of funds with different risk profiles and so actively manage their risk exposure and expected return. Minimization of a multi-period average value-at-risk deviation measure under expected return constraint leads to a large-scale linear program. A theoretical framework and a solution for the case of the pension system of Slovak Republic are presented.     

The Policyholder’s static and dynamic decision making of life insurance and pension payments

We deal with the introduction of life insurance and pension decisions in the personal financial problem of optimal lifetime consumption of lifetime income. We introduce in Sect. 2 the classical notion of reserves and present well-known differential equations characterizing these. We start with the survival model and discuss also the case where pension saving takes place in a bank. We then analyze the disability model and the multistate model that are generalizations of the survival model. This structure is repeated in all sections of the paper. In Sect. 3 we introduce the notion of utility reserves that makes it possible to compare the different contracts offered by the insurance company, and present differential equations characterizing these. The utility reserve is the basis for static optimization of payment streams in Sect. 4 and for dynamic optimization of payment streams in Sect. 5. In particular in the case of dynamic optimization, the differential equation characterizing the utility reserve plays a crucial role since the so-called Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation characterizing the optimal solution is based on it. Sections 2–5 are ended by a continued numerical example illustrating our findings for the survival model. We conclude by further remarks on generalizations and applications.