Rüfenacht Implicit Embedded Options in Life Insurance Contracts

A Market Consistent Valuation Framework
2012
ISBN: 978-3-7908-2843-6
Verlag: Physica
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 170 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Contributions to Management Science

This book presents a market-consistent valuation framework for implicit embedded options in life insurance contracts. This framework is used to perform an empirical analysis based on more than 110,000 actual and in-force life insurance policies and with a focus on the modeling of interest rates. Its results are the answer to the central question posed in the objectives:

What value do the embedded options and guarantees considered have?

This question is answered both absolutely and relative to the current policy reserves, from the perspective of the insurer, the policyholder and the shareholder respectively

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rüfenacht, Nils

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Theoretical Considerations Regarding Embedded Options.- Asset Modelling Process.- Liability Modelling Process.- An Empirical Analysis Using the Entire Modelling Approach.

Über Autor(innen)

This book presents a market-consistent valuation framework for implicit embedded options in life insurance contracts. This framework is used to perform an empirical analysis based on more than 110,000 actual and in-force life insurance policies and with a focus on the modeling of interest rates. Its results are the answer to the central question posed in the objectives:

What value do the embedded options and guarantees considered have?

This question is answered both absolutely and relative to the current policy reserves, from the perspective of the insurer, the policyholder and the shareholder respectively