Inter-cohort risk sharing with long-term guarantees: evidence from German participating contracts

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Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations:	Hombert, Johan (Author), Möhlmann, Axel (Author), Weiß, Matthias (Author)
Other Authors:	Möhlmann, Axel 1983- [Author] • Weiß, Matthias [Author]
Type of Resource:	E-Book
Language:	English
published:	Frankfurt am Main Deutsche Bundesbank [2021]
Series:	Deutsche Bundesbank: Discussion paper ; no 2021, 10
Subjects:	Life insurers Participating contracts Long-term investment Inter-cohort risk sharing Minimum return guarantees Graue Literatur
Source:	Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen
ISBN:	9783957298188

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Summary:	Long-term minimum return guarantees sold by European life insurers increasingly become binding as interest rates decline. While participating contracts embedding these guarantees are designed to share market risk across investor cohorts when guarantees are not binding, we study how binding guarantees distort inter-cohort risk sharing. Using regulatory data on participating contracts in Germany, we find that binding guarantees reduced inter-cohort transfer by 10 basis points per year in the period 2000{2018. This is modest compared to the average transfer, which is in the range of 40{150 basis points. However, the effect is concentrated in the recent period of ultra-low interest rates and may grow larger if interest rates remain persistently low.
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 52 Seiten); Illustrationen
ISBN:	9783957298188