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  Valuation of variable annuities in a hybrid model driven by ...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 3 Views

  Variable annuities are life insurance products which are particularly attractive in a low interest rate environment. They allow the policyholder to participate in the growth of the economy through the performance of a reference fund, guaranteeing at the s

• 17:18 New

  Fee structure and optimal investment mix in variable annuiti...

  by MHaas Added 4 days ago 0 7 Views

  We discuss a portfolio management problem of the rational policyholder of a variable annuity (VA) with maturity guarantee who aims to maximize the utility of her terminal wealth. We consider a VA contract which allows the policyholder to modify her invest

• 18:09 New

  Valuation of Power Blackout Insurance for the Australian Ene...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 2 Views

  The eastern states of Australia are supplied with electricity from the National Electricity Market, which is a grid that stores electricity generated by a variety of means. Electrical power blackouts occur when there is a disruption to supply to the grid

• 17:00 New

  Sensitivity Analysis of Annuity Models: What's inside the bl...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 7 Views

  Annuities constitute a fundamental branch in the life insurance business. To obtain the cost of annuities, Financial and demographic factors are the key inputs for the related mathematical quantitative models. In this work [1], we adopt and compare differ

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  Facing our responsibilities toward future generations under ...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 4 Views

  In this talk, I will discuss the economic approaches to evaluate the social cost of carbon, i.e., the present value of the flow of climate damages generated in the next few centuries by one more ton of CO2 emitted today. What discount rates should we use

• 20:11 New

  Fair valuation of insurance liability cash-flow streams in c...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 5 Views

  We investigate fair (market-consistent and actuarial) valuation of insurance liability cash-flow streams in continuous time. We first consider one-period hedge-based valuations, where in the first step, an optimal dynamic hedge for the liability is set up

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  A Stochastic Differential Game for Insurance Market with Com...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 13 Views

  Insurance premium principle includes the expected loss plus a risk loading factor to cover the loss from adverse claim experience and generate a profit. This paper considers a stochastic differential game with multiple insurers who are competing to sell i

• 18:31 New

  An Integrated Approach to Measuring Asset and Liability Risk...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 6 Views

  Risk measurement models for financial institutions typically focus on the net portfolio position and thus ignore distinctions between 1) assets and liabilities and 2) uncollateralized and collateralized liabilities. However, these distinctions are economi

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  Prevention efforts, insurance demand and price incentives un...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 2 Views

  This paper studies an equilibrium model between an insurance buyer and an insurance seller, where both parties' risk preferences are given by convex risk measures. The interaction is modeled through a Stackelberg type game, where the insurance seller play

• 36:09 New Popular

  500 Years of Annuity Mispricing

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 1 12 Views

  Prima facie, valuing a longevity-contingent claim that provides guaranteed income-for-life should be a relatively straight forward operation. One selects a mortality basis with a proper discount curve and the remainder is left to expectations. And yet, hi

• 16:27 New

  Optimal Allocation to Deferred Income Annuities

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 2 Views

  In our recently submitted paper we employ a lifecycle model that uses utility of consumption and bequest to determine an optimal Deferred Income Annuity (DIA) purchase policy. We lay out a mathematical framework to formalize the optimization process. The

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  Robust reinsurance-investment game between two mean-variance...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 2 Views

  In this paper, we investigate a class of robust non-zero-sum reinsurance-investment stochastic differential games between two competing insurers under the time-consistent mean-variance criterion. We allow each insurer to purchase a proportional reinsuranc

• 20:09 New

  Monte Carlo valuation of the initiation option in a GLWB var...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 3 Views

  We focus on the initiation option featured in many Guaranteed Lifelong Withdrawal Benefit variable annuity contracts, granting their owner the right to decide the age at which lifetime withdrawals should begin. Such contracts have been successfully analys

• 18:03 New

  Least squares Monte Carlo methods for numerical evaluation o...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 4 Views

  In a previous article published in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics [2], we explored a multiperiod cost-of-capital valuation of a liability cashflow subject to repeated capital requirements. The resulting liability value is given by a backward recursi

• 14:36 New

  Tontines, and the law of large numbers

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 3 Views

  Combining the best of drawdown and annuity, the investment returns and the longevity credits, tontines offer a great alternative to current pension products. Tontines are well-understood under the assumption of constant market returns and a perfect pool.

• 15:38 New

  Non-exponential Discounting Portfolio Management and insuran...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 5 Views

  This paper studies the portfolio management problem for an individual with a non-exponential discount function and habit formation in finite time. The individual receives a deterministic income, invests in risky assets, and consumes and buys insurance con

• 17:31 New

  Valuation of insurance liability cash flows from an agency p...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 1 Views

  This paper sets out a market-consistent valuation methodology for insurance liabilities with nonreplicable cash flows. An explicit allowance for risks associated with such cash flows is common in modern accounting standards, as well as statutory solvency

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  The Fundamental Theorem of Quantitative Risk Management

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 13 Views

• 14:44 New

  The limitations of law-invariant insurance pricing

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 2 Views

  We show that a law-invariant pricing functional defined on a general Orlicz space is typically incompatible with frictionless risky assets in the sense that one and only one of the following two alternatives hold: either every risky payoff has a strictly-

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  Phase-Type Models in Life Insurance: Fitting and Valuation o...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 11 Views

  Phase-type (PH) distributions are defined as distributions of lifetimes of finite continuous-time Markov processes. Their traditional applications are in queueing, insurance risk, and reliability, but more recently, also in finance and, though to a lesser

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  Yield Curve Shapes of Vasicek Interest Rate Models, Measure ...

  by DAV_DGVFM Added 4 days ago 0 5 Views

  We consider the yield curves that one- and two-factor Vasicek interest rate models can produce. As a result, we show that the two-factor Vasicek model can explain significantly more effects that are observed at the market than its one-factor variant. Amon

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  Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Optimization of Insurance

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 5 Views

  We study the application of dynamic pricing in insurance from the perspective of an insurance company. We consider the problem of online revenue management for an insurance company that wishes to sell a new product. We do not consider effects of competiti

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  Robustification of Monte-Carlo Simulations

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 4 Views

  One important point discussed between practitioners in insurance business is how many Monte-Carlo simulations are necessary to estimate the required Solvency Capital. A widespread opinion is that the larger the size of the Monte-Carlo sample is, the more

• 15:41 New

  Almost Sure Convergence for Nested Simulations

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 2 Views

  The Solvency II framework provides a standard formula for the calculation of the risk capital (SCR = Solvency Capital Requirement) in one year, but also gives life insurance companies the freedom to develop an own internal model. By using such an internal

• 19:42 New

  Testing the least squares Monte Carlo method for the evaluat...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 1 Views

  In Europe, the Solvency 2 directive prescribes that insurers must hold eligible own funds at least equal to their Solvency Capital Requirements (SCR) defined as the value at risk (VaR) of the basic own funds with a confidence level of 99:5% over a time ho

• 36:16 New

  The stochastic programming approach to asset-liability model...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 3 Views

  The stochastic programming scenario optimization using multi-period stochastic linear programming is a very good approach to asset and asset-liability management. This talk discusses the authors experiences in building and implementing large scale ALM mod

• 16:42 New

  Machine Learning Techniques in Nested Stochastic Simulation ...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 1 Views

  Solvency II, the harmonized European Directive for insurance and reinsurance companies [4], introduces new fundamental measures, such as the Probability Distribution Forecast (PDF) and the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR), whose estimation involves a ma

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  Vine copulas in finance and insurance

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 5 Views

  Vine copulas have proven to be flexible dependence models, which are able to model tail dependence pattern as they occur in financial and insurance data. The models power is driven by the ability to construct a d-dimensional dependence model from a collec

• 18:21 New

  Risk management of climate impact for tourism operators: An ...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 3 Views

  The aim of this paper is to analyze the performance of hedging strategies based on snow and temperature options developed by ski operators to protect their profitability under adverse changes in climatic conditions. The setup is based on a joint non-param

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  Two-step financial and actuarial valuations: Axiomatic chara...

  by actuview Added 4 days ago 0 3 Views

  Insurance liabilities are in most cases a combination of financial and actuarial risks. Determining the valuation of such payoffs requires combining standard actuarial valuations based on historical data with the financial information provided by market p

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  Behavioural Economics

  by RGA Added 2 weeks ago 2 130 Views

  Behavioral science helps insurers create products, policies and communications based on how people really do think and behave rather than how we think they should think and behave. In this webcast, Matt Battersby explains the key principles of behavioral

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  Joint Section Colloquium - Paris 2020

  by actuview Added 2 weeks ago 0 83 Views

  May 10-14, 2020PARIS, FRANCEIndividual Choices Facing Societal ChangesCan actuarial science bridge the gap between individual and collective choices? More information will shortly be available here: https://www.actuaries.org/iaa/IAA/Events/Section_Colloqu

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  ECA 2019 presentations now online

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 1,486 Views

  All videos can be found here.

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  Mitigating the global pension crisis: A compilation of actua...

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 110 Views

  Demographic changes and financial burdens have stressed public and private pension systems. Different reforms have been implemented around the world. These reforms may include or combine standard levers such as deferring retirement age, increasing contrib

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  Measuring adequacy and facing longevity risk in social secur...

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 1 72 Views

  Labour markets are undergoing major transformations mostly due to ageing population. Actuaries can play a fundamental role to ensure that social security systems continue to meet their objectives of adequacy of benefits and financing constraints. Adequacy

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  Italian disabled workers' survival: The variables that affec...

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 79 Views

  Over the last years, labour markets are quickly changing due to ageing population, technological innovations and arising of new professions. In this evolving context, how can we manage “longevity risk”? Is survival always i

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  What do the Actuaries of the Future Think Actuaries Could Be...

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 82 Views

  The research used actuarial techniques and historical commodity price data to synthetically create new historical investment return data going back 200-750 years - mostly based on data from the US, England and the EU. The research produced a surprising re

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  What are the knowledge and skill requirements for actuaries?

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 84 Views

  What are the knowledge and skill requirements for actuaries? What are functions and professional roles that are requested due to recent developments like digital transformation? These questions are examined by analyzing job advertisements in Germany, Aust

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  Guarantees in Germany: Where are we and does it make sense?

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 94 Views

  The german life insurance market was for a long time dominated by endowment and annuity products with profit participation. For the classical business interest rates, mortality/morbidity assumptions as well as expence loadings are guaranteed. Guarantees o

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  Predicting disability pensions with machine learning classif...

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 61 Views

  During the spring of 2018, the Finnish Centre for Pensions made a small-scale proof-of-concept (poc) machine learning test to classify imminent disability pensions among the working age population of Finland. We made the classification to predict disabili

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  Insights to IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 258 Views

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  Non life pricing procedure on encrypted and anonymous data

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 53 Views

  The recent increase in the amount of data generated, stored and analyzed by insurers to establish their pricing and underwriting policies has led to the emergence of new needs. Both from a regulatory point of view, with the recent implementation in the Eu

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  Elements of narrow artificial intelligence in reserving

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 84 Views

  Reserving is one of the core businesses of the actuarial profession. For insurance companies, it represents major strategic and economic challenges and its practice is subject to ever more advanced developments. Standard claims reserves valuation techniqu

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  IFRS 17 and actuaries - Does that square?

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 98 Views

  The new standard on IFRS 17 was introduced with a fanfare and with good intentions. A harmonized more transparent reporting for insurance companies which investors can understand. That sounds to good to be true. And it is. Living up to these expectations

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  Strategy and Governance of AAE

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 53 Views

  The aim of the presentation is to update the congres participants with the last elements from the strategy of AAE. Strategic Objective 1: Enhance relations with European institutions : Establish and maintain relationships with key European institutions, s

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  Teaching life insurance mathematics and technique: Does “t...

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 45 Views

  Traditional life insurance mathematics provides a plentiful toolkit for actuarial calculations. Nevertheless, significant weaknesses appear when relating classical approaches to current needs, which emerge from a continuously moving scenario. First, the e

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  Actuarial news (good and bad!): Do’s and don’ts in your ...

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 107 Views

  The basic idea behind this presentation relates to the topic of “actuary 2020” which we believe is someone who is equally strong in calculating and communicating. Communicating your arguments, findings and results to non-ac

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  The AAE’s bright(er) future: A diversity-based approach

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 87 Views

  In an attempt to support a certain diversity, I would like to offer an alternative vision to the technical and formula-based actuarial papers and propose a broader reflection based on the motto “In varietate concordia”. Thi

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  European Supervision in a Changing Environment

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 109 Views

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  Legal and political recognition: Fundamentals for the profes...

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 44 Views

  The legal position of the actuary and of the actuarial profession is different throughout Europe. A clear view on the diverging and converging aspects is not available which is what is experienced as a deficiency during exchanges with European Institution

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  MRM and the Actuarial Function in the Insurance Industry

  by AAE Added 1 month ago 0 46 Views