Household portfolio allocation over the life cycle

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Household Portfolio Allocation Over the Life Cycle James M. Poterba, Andrew A. Samwick. NBER Working Paper No. Issued in September NBER Program(s):Economics of Aging In this paper, we analyze the relationship between age and portfolio. Household Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle James M.

Poterba, Andrew Samwick. Chapter in NBER book Aging Issues in the United States and Japan (), Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Cited by: Downloadable.

This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the periodand portfolio.

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Get this from a library. Household portfolio allocation over the life cycle. [James M Poterba; Andrew Samwick; National Bureau of Economic Research.] -- Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the relationship between age and portfolio.

Abstract. This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households.

Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the periodand portfolio. Numerical solution of a life-cycle model with borrowing constraints and income risk shows that an ARM is generally attractive, but less so for a risk-averse household with a large mortgage, risky.

household asset allocation and in the countries that do the quality varies. The purpose of this paper is to study the life-cycle patterns in households’ portfolio choice using a Swedish data-base suitable for this task – the HINK (Household. The issue of portfolio choice over the life cycle is encountered by every investor.

Popular finance books [e.g., Malkiel ()] and financial counselors generally give the advice to shift the portfolio Cited by: display increasing or hump-shaped proflles over the life-cycle (e.g.

Poterba and Samwick () and Ameriks and Zeldes ()). Again, this is in stark contrast with the standard life-cycle portfolio advice that young households should allocate most of their portfolio to equities, and reduce this allocation as.

A Life Cycle Model with Housing, Portfolio Allocation, and Mortgage Financing 2 1. Introduction This paper develops a model to explain the life-cycle patterns in both homeownership and portfolio allocation File Size: 1MB. The portfolio derived with this simple approach matches the optimal portfolio from the much more complicated dynamic life-cycle models.

An application illustrates that young households Author: Claus Munk. We then consider the implications of the model for the composition of the portfolio over the lifecycle. The model implies that, in the presence of the collateral and nonnegativity constraints, the optimal portfolio will depend on not only the household.

Portfolio Allocation over Life-Cycle with Multiple Late-in-Life Saving Motives Minjoon Lee Novem Job Market Paper Link to the latest version Abstract Older households face health-related risks, including risk of being in need of long-term care and mortality risk.

Portfolio. Consumption and Portfolio Choice over the Life-Cycle Abstract: This paper solves a realistically calibrated life-cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice with non-tradable labor income and borrowing constraints.

Since la-bor income substitutes for riskless asset holdings, the optimal share invested in equities is roughly decreasing over. Life-Cycle Implications for the Household Portfolio Marjorie Flavin UCSD and NBER The paper constructs a model of optimal portfolio allocation that focuses on the role of housing as collateral, allows for house price risk, a $, increase in the value of a residence does not increase the household’s command over.

Optimal Portfolio Choice over the Life-Cycle with Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Lifetime Payouts Jingjing Chai, Wolfram Horneff, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell We derive optimal life-cycle. changes over the life-cycle remains very much a challenge for modern finance.

This challenge has a bearing on more than just household portfolios: it is crucial in the study of asset pricing, and for understanding the risk-return trade-off in the economy. In what follows, we first offer a brief survey of empirical evidence on household.

The empirical study of household portfolio allocations over the life-cycle entails formidable data requirements. Ideally, one would employ data on households’ complete portfolio holdings that cov er. (the ownership rate) than on the intensive margin (portfolio shares).

In this paper, I study household portfolio allocation over the life-cycle in Canada, with two spe-ciflc purposes. First, I document the life-cycle patterns in household wealth allocation.

This paper examines how households should optimally allocate their portfolio choices between risky stocks and risk-free bonds over their lifetime. Traditional lifecycle models in previous work suggest that the allocation toward stocks should start high (near %) early in life and decline over Cited by: 3.model with disasters and contrast them with the traditional life-cycle model without disasters.

Section 6 concludes. 2. Asset allocation over the lifecycle – theory and evidence Sophisticated theoretical treatments of dynamic portfolio Cited by: 1.