LIFE
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Grouping of Contracts in Life Insurance using Neural Network...
Added 1 31 ViewsThe presented work covers two tasks, the prediction of policy values up to the maturity of an individual contract and the grouping of contracts, which are combined within our approach. Despite the high importance of grouping in practice, little research o
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Becoming Human-Centric – Using Design Thinking to Innovate...
Added 0 35 ViewsHow can actuaries leverage human-centric design to create new products and services that are relevant to the customer? Learn the design-thinking framework and see how it can be applied to insurance.
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Lessons Learnt from the Royal Commission
Added 0 28 ViewsAustralian financial institutions have been criticised for failing to meet public expectations. However, this is not just a domestic issue. Many modern Institutions do not seem to be effectively managing the risks that come from swiftly changing social at
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VHIS – A product from over 3 decades of public consultatio...
Added 0 10 ViewsCovering background & history of VHIS driven by HK Government, launched 1 Apr 19, details of the scheme, risk management and issues surrounding the scheme, early learning, and a comparison between government driven schemes from HK, China & Singapo
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Leading Through Change
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Disability Income – Crazy Rich Products
Added 0 24 ViewsDisability Income (DI) is a growing area of need in addressing the gap in protection all across Asia. One third of people will have experienced some illness or accident that prevents them from working before their retirement age. We will take you through
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Crazy Responsive Experience Studies
Added 0 20 ViewsDeveloping mortality, morbidity and lapse rate tables can be fun! In his presentation, Kai Kaufhold, a recently joined member of the SAS, will demonstrate how statistical analysis at the level of the individual can make the crazy responsive actuary even m
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Understanding the challenges of ageing: Meeting the needs of...
Added 0 19 ViewsWith the ageing population growing faster than ever, especially in Japan (36 million in 2025), many are seeking new and innovative ways to address these unmet elderly needs. Currently, the Japanese government estimates that by 2025, 7 million people in Ja
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Market Responsive Reinsurance
Added 0 14 ViewsHow can the Life & Health reinsurance market respond to the primary industry challenges? Low interest rates: can reinsurance meet historically unmet needs? How to use reinsurance capital and shift to capital-lighter business?
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Rejuvenation Biotechnology: the End of Extrapolation
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Chess and Underwriting
Added 1 217 ViewsSpeaker: Jeff Heaton, Ph.D., FLMI, Vice President, Data Science, RGA In this video, RGA’s Jeff Heaton discusses advances in AI that have been applied by Google to master the game of chess using simulated data, and how this technology can support lif
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Liquid Biopsies: Fact, Fiction, or Both?
Added 2 107 ViewsIn this short video, RGA’s Dr. Daniel Zimmerman discusses the rapidly developing technology of liquid biopsies. He defines what they are, what impact they will likely have on clinical medicine, and how they might impact insurers.
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Lifestyle-Related Mortality
Added 4 179 ViewsPremature deaths and chronic conditions continue to grow worldwide. In order to reduce these early deaths, it is important to understand how lifestyle behaviors influence health outcomes. In this webcast, Julianne Callaway explains the impact of physical
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Measuring Profitability from a Shareholder Perspective
Added 0 177 ViewsThis paper deals with the measurement of profitability of a life insurance company from the shareholders' perspective under a Solvency II framework. Profitability and solvency capital requirement of life insurance business are exposed to many levels of un
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Options on tontines: an innovative way of combining tontines...
Added 0 136 ViewsIncreases in the life expectancy, the low interest rate environment and the tightening solvency regulation have caused insurers and policyholders to search for new, attractive retirement products. In this context, tontines and pooled annuities have gained
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Valuation of variable annuities in a hybrid model driven by ...
Added 0 103 ViewsVariable 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
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Fee structure and optimal investment mix in variable annuiti...
Added 0 100 ViewsWe 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
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Sensitivity Analysis of Annuity Models: What's inside the bl...
Added 0 112 ViewsAnnuities 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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Fair valuation of insurance liability cash-flow streams in c...
Added 2 104 ViewsWe 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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An Integrated Approach to Measuring Asset and Liability Risk...
Added 0 90 ViewsRisk 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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500 Years of Annuity Mispricing
Added 1 437 ViewsPrima 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
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Optimal Allocation to Deferred Income Annuities
Added 0 47 ViewsIn 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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Monte Carlo valuation of the initiation option in a GLWB var...
Added 0 54 ViewsWe 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
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Tontines, and the law of large numbers
Added 0 76 ViewsCombining 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.
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Robustification of Monte-Carlo Simulations
Added 0 67 ViewsOne 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
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Almost Sure Convergence for Nested Simulations
Added 0 57 ViewsThe 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
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Testing the least squares Monte Carlo method for the evaluat...
Added 0 55 ViewsIn 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
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The stochastic programming approach to asset-liability model...
Added 0 164 ViewsThe 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
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Vine copulas in finance and insurance
Added 0 192 ViewsVine 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
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Behavioural Economics
Added 3 291 ViewsBehavioral 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
