Optimal Asset Allocation Towards the End of the Life Cycle: To Annuitize or Not to Annuitize?

Journal of Risk and Insurance

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 401-426

  Milevsky, Moshe Arye ^a  

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EID: 0040858809     PISSN: 00224367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/253657     Document Type: Article

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