The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning

This paper aims to assess the return and downside risk of a decumulation portfolio established at the retirement age of a senior, with a determined lifetime horizon differentiated by the sex of the citizen. To measure the portfolio’s return and downside risk, two ratios conditioned by seniors’ risk...

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Autores: Betzuen Álvarez, Amaia Jone, Betzuen Zalbidegoitia, Amancio
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Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universidad del País Vasco
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decumulation portfolio
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spelling The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial PlanningBetzuen Álvarez, Amaia JoneBetzuen Zalbidegoitia, Amanciodownside riskseniorfinancial planningdecumulation portfolioretirementsexThis paper aims to assess the return and downside risk of a decumulation portfolio established at the retirement age of a senior, with a determined lifetime horizon differentiated by the sex of the citizen. To measure the portfolio’s return and downside risk, two ratios conditioned by seniors’ risk attitude towards portfolio failure are employed: the downside Sortino ratio and the downside risk–return ratio. Unlike other research in the field, this manuscript provides three portfolio compositions catering to different senior investment profiles: aggressive, moderate, and conservative. Additionally, it offers a decumulation horizon conditioned by the sex-specific life expectancy of the individual, instead of offering different scenarios for conducting a sensitivity analysis. Lastly, this study was conducted across three socioeconomically distinct countries: the US, Spain, and Japan. The results clearly demonstrate that both sex and nationality significantly influence the selection of the optimal decumulation portfolio composition aimed at exhausting funds by the senior’s demise.MDPI2024202420242024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/69613reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://www.mdpi.com/2227-9091/12/9/142info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/696132026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning
title The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning
spellingShingle The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning
Betzuen Álvarez, Amaia Jone
downside risk
senior
financial planning
decumulation portfolio
retirement
sex
title_short The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning
title_full The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning
title_fullStr The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning
title_sort The Role of Sex in the Assessment of Return and Downside Risk in Decumulation Financial Planning
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Betzuen Álvarez, Amaia Jone
Betzuen Zalbidegoitia, Amancio
author Betzuen Álvarez, Amaia Jone
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Betzuen Zalbidegoitia, Amancio
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv downside risk
senior
financial planning
decumulation portfolio
retirement
sex
topic downside risk
senior
financial planning
decumulation portfolio
retirement
sex
description This paper aims to assess the return and downside risk of a decumulation portfolio established at the retirement age of a senior, with a determined lifetime horizon differentiated by the sex of the citizen. To measure the portfolio’s return and downside risk, two ratios conditioned by seniors’ risk attitude towards portfolio failure are employed: the downside Sortino ratio and the downside risk–return ratio. Unlike other research in the field, this manuscript provides three portfolio compositions catering to different senior investment profiles: aggressive, moderate, and conservative. Additionally, it offers a decumulation horizon conditioned by the sex-specific life expectancy of the individual, instead of offering different scenarios for conducting a sensitivity analysis. Lastly, this study was conducted across three socioeconomically distinct countries: the US, Spain, and Japan. The results clearly demonstrate that both sex and nationality significantly influence the selection of the optimal decumulation portfolio composition aimed at exhausting funds by the senior’s demise.
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