Tax optimized investment strategies
- Many tax-codes around the world allow for special taxable treatment of savings in retirement accounts. In particular, profits in retirement accounts are usually tax exempt which allow investors to increase an asset's return by holding it in such a retirement account. While the existing literature on asset location shows that risk-free bonds are usually the preferred asset to hold in a retirement account, we explain how the tax exemption of profits in retirement accounts affects private investors' asset allocation. We show that total final wealth can be decomposed into what the investor would have earned in a taxable account and what is due to the tax exemption of profits in the retirement account. The tax exemption of profits can thus be considered a tax-gift which is similar to an implicit bond holding. As this tax-gift's impact on total final wealth decreases over time, so does the investor's equity exposure. JEL Classification Codes: G11, H24
Author: | Marcel Marekwica |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-53418 |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Referee: | Raimond MaurerORCiDGND, Christian SchlagORCiDGND |
Advisor: | Raimond Maurer |
Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2008/03/04 |
Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Granting Institution: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität |
Date of final exam: | 2008/01/16 |
Release Date: | 2008/03/04 |
Tag: | asset allocation; asset location; tax exempt; tax-deferred accounts |
GND Keyword: | Anlagepolitik; Steuer |
Page Number: | 155 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 133 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 195402944 |
Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |