Pension Fund Asset Allocation in Low Interest Rate Environment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Bams ◽  
Peter C. Schotman ◽  
Mukul Tyagi
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Pension Fund ◽  
Rate Environment

scholarly journals Retirement Saving and Decumulation in a Persistent Low-Return Environment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason J. Fichtner ◽  
Jason S. Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Wealth Management ◽  
Retirement Saving ◽  
Rate Environment ◽  
Alternative Responses ◽  
Retirement Study

The current retirement environment presents challenges, not only over the period for which interest rates remain low, but also once interest rates appreciably increase. This chapter addresses two related questions: first, how have households responded to the current low interest rate environment, and second, are there alternative responses or investments which households might do well to consider? We employ the Health and Retirement Study to first investigate impacts of the low interest rate on savings, wealth, and asset allocation. We also report on a subset of households who were relatively successful at building and preserving wealth over this period. Following this, we consider alternative portfolio and wealth management strategies targeting increases in equities and delayed claiming of Social Security in terms of their potential to add value in persistent low return environments.

A Global Perspective on Pension Fund Asset Allocation

CFA Digest ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-46
Author(s):  
Charles F. Peake
Keyword(s):  
Asset Allocation ◽  
Pension Fund ◽  
Global Perspective

How Do Homeowners Choose Between Fixed and Adjustable Rate Mortgages?

2016 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevgeny Mugerman ◽  
Moran Ofir ◽  
Zvi Wiener
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Optimal Choice ◽  
Housing Finance ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Fixed Rate ◽  
High Interest Rate ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
Rate Environment ◽  
Adjustable Rate

Housing is the most important asset in the portfolio of most households. Understanding the households’ decision on housing finance has important implications from a policy perspective, due to the effects it may have on the housing prices, on the housing market stability and on household welfare. The theoretical literature on housing finance focused on figuring out the optimal choice between fixed rate mortgages (FRMs) and adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs). We argue that the standard economic criteria are sometimes inadequate to explain household’s choices, which may be motivated by psychological factors. In other words, we claim that household’s choice depends only partially on the findings of the theoretical literature. We examine the effect of changes in the short-term market interest rate on the households’ choice between FRMs and ARMs. We test this effect using a unique data provided to us by the Bank of Israel, which contains detailed information on the household’s decision between FRM and ARM contracts in Israel in the past decade. The results of our analysis demonstrate a significant association between FRM preference and short-term interest rate reduction. Moreover, we find that the change in the short-term interest rate is more salient to the borrowers in periods of a high interest rate environment. We attribute these findings to Tversky and Kahneman (1974) availability and representativeness heuristics.

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