Life-Cycle Asset Accumulation and Allocation in Canada
利用1999年加拿大金融安全调查数据，研究家庭资产在生命周期中的积累与配置模式，发现老年阶段养老金等年金化资产减少，且金融资产占比随年龄上升而风险偏好下降。
Abstract. This paper documents the life‐cycle patterns of household portfolios in Canada, and investigates several hypotheses about asset accumulation and allocation. Inferences are drawn from the 1999 Survey of Financial Security, with some comparisons to earlier wealth surveys from 1977 and 1984. I find cross‐sectional evidence for asset decumulation at older ages when annuitized assets like pension wealth are included in the analysis. I also find that the portfolio share of financial assets increases sharply with age, while indicators of risk tolerance appear to decrease. This is consistent with families’ desiring more liquid and less risky assets as they age.