PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Cees Dert AU - Michiel Lodewijk AU - Bart Oldenkamp AU - Michiel de Pooter TI - The Design and Production of New Retirement Savings Products AID - 10.3905/jpm.2003.319890 DP - 2003 Apr 30 TA - The Journal of Portfolio Management PG - 123--126 VI - 29 IP - 3 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/29/3/123.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/29/3/123.full AB - An earlier contribution to this journal implied that protective floor investment strategies in defined-contribution pension investments beat investments in traditional asset mixes, with respect to both the probability of achieving a minimum target level of future pension income and the expected level of future pension income. These commentators show that protective floor strategies may be attractive to loss-averse investors, but they do not beat traditional investments simultaneously on expected pension income and on the probability of achieving the target pension income.