Enhancing Sell-Type Home Reversion Products for Retirement Financing

Koon Shing Kwong (), Jing Rong Goh and Ting Lin Collin Chua
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Koon Shing Kwong: School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Singapore 178903, Singapore
Jing Rong Goh: School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Singapore 178903, Singapore
Ting Lin Collin Chua: School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Singapore 178903, Singapore

Risks, 2024, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: Loan-type reverse mortgage plans and sell-type home reversion plans for retirement financing are two well-known equity release plans that entitle homeowners not only to release cash from their properties but also to allow them to age in place. Recently, a new hybrid equity release plan was proposed to incorporate the home reversion plan’s features with an option of staying in the property for a fixed period without being subject to survival. This additional option provides flexibility to homeowners to better meet their retirement financial and personal needs by reducing the financial uncertainty of home reversion products. In this article, we propose an enhanced home reversion plan with some new features to meet retirees’ other financial needs, such as life annuity incomes and guaranteed return of principal invested. An actuarial framework is provided to analyze the cost components of each benefit offered under the enhanced home reversion product. Numerical illustrations are presented to demonstrate and examine the actuarial values of the benefits and product risks with different parameter configurations under the recent Singapore mortality data set.

Keywords: reverse mortgage; Lease Buyback Scheme; equivalence principle; equity release products (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C G0 G1 G2 G3 K2 M2 M4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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