How to Build the Optimal Portfolio

Nieuws
30-08-2024
Alla Gil
Complex financial products like registered index-linked annuities (RILAs) feature an array of risks and benefits. Evaluating all possible outcomes is essential to developing an optimal long-term RILA investment strategy that maximizes return and minimizes risks.

Registered index-linked annuities (RILAs) offer a balance of growth potential and downside protection. But while they have gained popularity as retirement and investment products, they also present capital, liquidity and asset-liability management challenges to insurance companies.

These complex products appeal to consumers because they provide exposure to market gains while limiting losses – a benefit that is particularly attractive during periods of extreme market turbulence. However, RILAs are also complex, making it difficult for consumers, their financial planners and the insurance companies issuing these annuities to estimate their overall portfolio impact.

Chief risk officers of insurance companies certainly have their share of concerns about RILAs. These products not only impact insurers’ capital and liquidity ratios but can also potentially cause ALM mismatches. Indeed, sudden changes in the market environment may prove hedges to be either inadequate – because of increased correlations – or excessive – because, say, early withdrawals overwhelm embedded penalties.

[....]

Lees verder op: garp.org

Gerelateerde vacatures

Geïnteresseerd in een carrière bij organisaties in ditzelfde vakgebied? Bekijk hieronder de gerelateerde vacatures en vind de perfecte match voor jou!
Top vacature
Pensioenfonds Rail & OV
Max. 8.058
Medior, Senior
Utrecht
Als je het leuk vindt om diepgaande analyses te maken, beleggingsportefeuilles te optimaliseren en je het een uitdaging vindt om je mening duidelijk te verwoorden en niet terug te deinzen...
Top vacature
Pensioenfonds UWV
110.000 - 130.000
Senior
Amsterdam
Manager Vermogensbeheer bij Pensioenfonds UWV is een strategische rol waarbij je verantwoordelijk bent voor het beleggingsbeleid, monitoring en rapportage, en samenwerking met externe partijen. Vereist ervaring en expertise in vermogensbeheer.
Top vacature
Morningstar
Marktconform
Medior
Amsterdam
Our Equity Research team requires an experienced equity analyst to cover European stocks, primarily focusing on a select group of companies in the industrials sector. Performing fundamental analysis within our...
Top vacature
De Nederlandsche Bank
4.600 - 6.600
Senior
Amsterdam
Als econoom bij DNB analyseer je financiële marktontwikkelingen en draag je bij aan financiële stabiliteit en beleid. Je werkt samen met een team van professionals aan marktupdates, diepgaande analyses en...