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Hedging Variable Annuity Guarantees With Long-Dated Equity Derivatives
Hedging Variable Annuity Guarantees With Long-Dated Equity Derivatives Competition for space in distribution ... proliferation of exotic options embedded in variable annuity products. This article discusses how this has ...- Authors: Michelle Smith, Roma Jakiwczyk, Edward Wilson, Mark Evans
- Date: Nov 2005
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Risk Management
- Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Finance & Investments>Derivatives
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A Cautionary Note on Pricing Longevity Index Swaps
participants to hedge or gain exposure to longevity and mortality risks. This presentation offers a quantitative ... of death rates under a two-factor stochastic mortality model in a risk-adjusted probability measure, ...- Authors: Siu-Hang Li, Rui Zhou
- Date: Jul 2009
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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So, The Equity Markets Don't Always Go Up? Capital Markets Hedging of Variable Annuities and Equity-Indexed Annuities
So, The Equity Markets Don't Always Go Up? Capital Markets Hedging of Variable Annuities ... market risk embedded in variable annuity and equity-indexed annuity products.. Asset modeling;Capital ...- Authors: Daniel Patterson, Marshall C Greenbaum, Jun Zhuo, D Kent Freeman
- Date: May 2003
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
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Weird Science: Dissection of Derivatives
shows off-balance sheet applications. Note that annuity hedging accounts for 53% of the applications ... covered in swaps, guaranteed minimum death benefit, the S&P 500 exposure and equity indexed annuities, and ...- Authors: Larry M Gorski, Stephen Reddy, Charlene Marie Barnes, Christopher T Anderson
- Date: Jun 1998
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
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Use of Derivatives by the Insurance Industry
types of derivative contracts are being used? Table 1 displays the total notional amount of option contracts ... and life/health insurers purchased during 1994. TABLE 1 1994 USERS OF DERIVATIVES, BY SIZE Life/Health ...- Authors: Larry M Gorski, Warren Luckner, David J Cummins, Lucien Burnett, Richard D Phillips, Thomas A McAvity
- Date: Oct 1996
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
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A Primer on Credit Derivatives
the detailed breakdown of market participants in Table 1, banks and corporations were usually net buyers ... credit risk through 2006 (and projected to 2008). Table 1 illustrates the relative role of the different ...- Authors: Stephen P D'Arcy, James P McNichols, Xinyan Zhao
- Date: Apr 2009
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
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Rainfall Insurance
100 most expensive natural disasters during 1901-2000, Mexico accounts for seven. The losses were mostly ... 1. The actual country experience is listed in Table 1. The striking feature of the crop insurance ...- Authors: Tapen Sinha, Edgard Baqueiro
- Date: Jan 2006
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
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Derivatives in an Insurance Context
liability risks. This will concentrate not so much on mortality and morbidity risk, but rather on fixed-income ... trans- actions. For example, suppose you sell an annuity based on current rates, but the premium is not ...- Authors: John Mulholland, Bryan Boudreau, Joseph Koltisko
- Date: Apr 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives
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Valuing American Options in a Path Simulation Model
prices is a sequence S(0), S(1), S(2) . . . . , S (N) , in which the arguments of S refer to the epoch ... stock prices emanate from the initial stock price S(0). The simulation procedure involves the random ...- Authors: James A Tilley
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models
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Suboptimality of Asian Executive Indexed Options
Suboptimality ... H4 = 110 K = 90 Sample Price Paths Stock, S Benchmark, H Strike, K • Sˆ4 = 4 √ S1S2S3S4 = ... 8 0.9 1 Payoffs P ro b a b il it y d is tr ib u ti o n Empirial CDFs of AT , A ⋆ T and AˆT ...- Authors: Phelim Boyle, Jit Seng Chen, Carole L Bernard
- Date: Aug 2011
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives