Wade Pfau @WadePfau 39m
Evan Inglis of Vanguard: Is the future just going to happen and is it misleading to attach parameters and expected returns to it?
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Evan Inglis of Vanguard: Is the future just going to happen and is it misleading to attach parameters and expected returns to it?
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 45m
Anna Rappaport: for middle-market, asset management is not so important. Housing is a key component of wealth and need to incorporate that
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 49m
Me: Retirees may still have a long-term investment horizon, but it is key to realize sequence of returns risk effectively shortens that
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Anna Rappaport: for middle-market, asset management is not so important. Housing is a key component of wealth and need to incorporate that
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 49m
Me: Retirees may still have a long-term investment horizon, but it is key to realize sequence of returns risk effectively shortens that
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 51m
Marlena Lee of DFA: in low yield environment, it is important to stay focused on total returns portfolio, not income portfolio
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 1h
Guyle Wilson of Mercer: normal distribution assumptions works fairly well for longer return periods such as a year
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Marlena Lee of DFA: in low yield environment, it is important to stay focused on total returns portfolio, not income portfolio
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 1h
Guyle Wilson of Mercer: normal distribution assumptions works fairly well for longer return periods such as a year
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 1h
Marlena Lee of DFA: Key assumption for Monte Carlo which affects results: the expected returns assumption
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Marlena Lee of DFA: Key assumption for Monte Carlo which affects results: the expected returns assumption
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 1h
Marlena Lee of DFA: including mean reversion (bootstrapping 10 year sequences) reduces range of wealth accumulations slightly
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Marlena Lee of DFA: including mean reversion (bootstrapping 10 year sequences) reduces range of wealth accumulations slightly
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 1h
Marlena Lee of DFA confirms what I thought as well: normal distributions (no fat tails) give similar results as bootstrapping (fat tails)
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Marlena Lee of DFA confirms what I thought as well: normal distributions (no fat tails) give similar results as bootstrapping (fat tails)
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 19h
Hodgson: "Retirement as currently configured was never affordable, but this fact was hidden by demographic and debt trends ...
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Hodgson: "Retirement as currently configured was never affordable, but this fact was hidden by demographic and debt trends ...
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 20h
Stefan Lundbergh of Cardano: For inspiration on pension reform, study: (1) Sweden (2) The Netherlands (3) UK
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Stefan Lundbergh of Cardano: For inspiration on pension reform, study: (1) Sweden (2) The Netherlands (3) UK
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 20h
Hodgson's retirement anomaly: Global pension assets add to 78% of GDP, but they need to be 235% of GDP... can amt grow w/o decreased return?
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Hodgson's retirement anomaly: Global pension assets add to 78% of GDP, but they need to be 235% of GDP... can amt grow w/o decreased return?
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 20h
Tim Hodgson of Towers Watson: For risk, can we say it won't happen in the future vs. it just hasn't happened in the past
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Tim Hodgson of Towers Watson: For risk, can we say it won't happen in the future vs. it just hasn't happened in the past
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 23h
Kessler of SOA: mortality data is bad and out of date, worst for extreme ages, complexity may not help, but some known factors such as educ.
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Kessler of SOA: mortality data is bad and out of date, worst for extreme ages, complexity may not help, but some known factors such as educ.
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 23h
Kessler of SOA: mortality varies by period, age, cohort and country, and so not easy to model
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Kessler of SOA: mortality varies by period, age, cohort and country, and so not easy to model
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 23h
mortality cohort effects: follows the same individuals over time and see how individual cohorts enjoy improved mortality over time
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mortality cohort effects: follows the same individuals over time and see how individual cohorts enjoy improved mortality over time
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 23h
Kessler of SOA: Mortality improvements combine into period effects (mortality rates decline across ages at same time - such as less smoking)
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Kessler of SOA: Mortality improvements combine into period effects (mortality rates decline across ages at same time - such as less smoking)
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 23h
Developing mortality improvement rates combines science, art, and educated guesses
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Developing mortality improvement rates combines science, art, and educated guesses
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 23h
Kessler of SOA: now research is focusing on developing specific mortality improvement rates for age and calendar year
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Kessler of SOA: now research is focusing on developing specific mortality improvement rates for age and calendar year
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 23h
Kessler of SOA: History shows steady longevity improvements, which must be built into future mortality assumptions
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Kessler of SOA: History shows steady longevity improvements, which must be built into future mortality assumptions
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 23h
Emily Kessler of Society of Actuaries: Longevity risk is systematic, not idiosyncratic, and so it can't be hedged
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Emily Kessler of Society of Actuaries: Longevity risk is systematic, not idiosyncratic, and so it can't be hedged
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 25 Apr
Jim Moore of PIMCO: missing fat tails in multivariate normal can give misleading answers in other parts of the model
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Jim Moore of PIMCO: missing fat tails in multivariate normal can give misleading answers in other parts of the model
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 25 Apr
Long-term returns modeling: assuming multivariate normal may miss fat tails, but nonetheless provides more variation in outcomes
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Long-term returns modeling: assuming multivariate normal may miss fat tails, but nonetheless provides more variation in outcomes
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 25 Apr
Jim Moore of PIMCO: since 1871, geometric real equity returns over 30 year periods ranged from 3.5 to 10%... what to assume for modeling?
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Jim Moore of PIMCO: since 1871, geometric real equity returns over 30 year periods ranged from 3.5 to 10%... what to assume for modeling?
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 25 Apr
Jim Moore of PIMCO: modeling long-term returns, long-term convergence (less to more): bootstrapping, multivariate normal, regime switching
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Jim Moore of PIMCO: modeling long-term returns, long-term convergence (less to more): bootstrapping, multivariate normal, regime switching
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Wade Pfau @WadePfau 25 Apr
Live Tweets from the Pension Research Council Conference at the Wharton School
Live Tweets from the Pension Research Council Conference at the Wharton School
Wade, thank you for these useful excerpts. They could almost make me take Twitter seriously.
ReplyDeleteWould you care to expand at all on the Hodgson remark? (Hodgson: "Retirement as currently configured was never affordable, but this fact was hidden by demographic and debt trends from the last several decades.") I looked online for something of his that might address this, bugt couldn't find anything. Did he go into any specifics, or was it just a hook?
Hi, I've heard this sort of idea expressed before. Essentially, it's the idea that people can't really expect to support 20-30 years of non-work with only 30-40 years of work. But this was masked by the pay-as-you-go nature of pensions as well as excellent market returns.
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