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Arbitrage-Free Pricing of Interest-Rate Contingent Claims
Arbitrage-Free Pricing of Interest-Rate Contingent Claims This paper discusses the pricing of ... certain cash flows is the market price. Asset valuation;Corporate bonds;Government bonds;Interest rate ...- Authors: Elias Shiu, Application Administrator, Hal Warren Pedersen
- Date: Oct 1989
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Economic value
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Integer Functions and Life Contingencies
(p. 154, Table 1). In Section VI, we shall point out that the six expressions in his Table I are exact ... discussed earlier (Sec. IV, 4). Lauer ([19], p. 154, Table I) has given an expression for each definition ...- Authors: Cecil J Nesbitt, Elias Shiu, A D Wilkie
- Date: Oct 1982
- Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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Option Pricing by Esscher Transforms
his paper [35] Esscher did not assume that the individual claim amount distribution function is differentiable ... results are rooted in the idea of risk-neutral valuation of Cox and Ross [24]. For an in- sightful introduction ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
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Book Reviews and Notices
minimizes the danger of attributing too much to an individual author. Furthermore, the importance of the results ... life table, the one constructed by John Graunt in 1662. His contribution was more than the table itself--this ...- Authors: William H Aitken, John A Beekman, Samuel Cox, William B Frye, Stuart Klugman, Robert J Myers, Murray Projector, Elias Shiu, Harry A Woodman, William A Drew
- Date: Oct 1990
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development
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Information Theoretic Approach to Actuarial Science: A Unification and Extension of Relevant Theory and Applications
known or assumed individual characteristics, while si- multaneously developing a table that is as close ... close as possible to a given standard mortality table. • How to graduate or smooth observed insurance ...- Authors: Bradley P Carlin, Beda Chan, Thomas Herzog, William L Roach, Elias Shiu, Patrick L Brockett, Josh Babier, Wojciech Szatzschneider, E S Rosenbloom
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Actuarial Profession; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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AIDS: Survival Analysis of Persons Testing HIV+
death. 517 518 AIDS: SURVIVAL ANALYSIS Table 1A classifies the number of persons observed during ... time the subject was first observed in the study. Table 1B gives the corresponding number of persons whose ...- Authors: Beda Chan, Mark Evans, Harry H Panjer, Elias Shiu, J. C. Smith
- Date: Oct 1988
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity
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Cash Flow Analysis by the Prudent Banker's Method, or Discounting Turned on its Head
effect of deaths and lapses, was as follows: TABLE 1 PROJECTED CASH FLOW ON BLOCK OF BUSINESS Year ... the computed rate of return on the cash flow in Table 1, by a "normal" or conventional discounting process ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Mark Evans, Roger E Johnson, Thomas Marra, Claude Y Paquin, S. Promislow, William L Roach, Eric Seah, Elias Shiu, Courtland C Smith, Donald R Sondergeld
- Date: Oct 1987
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
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Multivariate Immunization Theory
representing the yield curve drivers in a given valuation model, which can be taken as the yields at the ... that it reflects the relative magnitude of the individual shift amounts. A typical shift can then be modeled ...- Authors: Robert Reitano, Elias Shiu
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset liability management; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Asset modeling
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Risk Theory with the Gamma Process
Poisson process with Poisson parameter Q(x) and individual claim amount distribution t 0 y~x P(y; x) ... Poisson process with Poisson parameter Q(0) and individual claim amount distribution O(y) P{y) --- ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Elias Shiu, Francois Dufresne
- Date: Jan 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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A Retrospective on 50 Years of Advances in Theory and Practice of Finance
beginning, that is, a coordinated view of A/L valuation. I must confess to you that we weren't. These ... includes an "Options Balance Sheet" table. On the left side of the table, you have the assets and on the ...- Authors: James C Hickman, Elias Shiu
- Date: Oct 1999
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Economics>Financial economics