Combining investment and tax strategies for optimizing lifetime solvency under uncertain returns and mortality

Artikel

This paper considers investors who are looking to maximize their probability of remaining solvent throughout their lifetime by using an algorithm that aims to optimize their investment allocation strategy and optimize their tax strategy for withdrawal allocations between tax deferred accounts (TDAs), Roth accounts, and taxable stock and bond accounts. This optimization works with stochastic investment returns and stochastic mortality, extending and combining different investment and tax-efficiency paradigms. We find that optimizing the investment strategy has a much larger impact on the investor remaining solvent than optimizing the tax strategy. This result is key to effectively optimizing both strategies simultaneously. This optimized investment strategy soundly beats a standard target date fund strategy, and the novel optimized tax strategy displays optimal desired properties suggested by non-stochastic tax optimization research.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Journal of Risk and Financial Management ; ISSN: 1911-8074 ; Volume: 14 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 7 ; Pages: 1-25 ; Basel: MDPI

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: dynamic programming ; goals-based wealth management ; Monte Carlo methods ; mortality ; optimal strategy ; retirement planning ; Roth accounts ; tax deferred accounts ; taxable accounts ; taxes

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Das, Sanjiv R. ; Ostrov, Daniel ; Casanova, Aviva ; Radhakrishnan, Anand ; Srivastav, Deep
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): MDPI
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2021

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3390/jrfm14070285
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/258389
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET