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Leveraging Up Return on Equity by Issuing Subordinated Indebtedness
Leveraging Up Return on Equity by Issuing Subordinated Indebtedness This paper presents a formula for calculating the expected rate of return on shareholders' equity when an insurance ...- Authors: Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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Total Return, Duration and Convexity
Total Return, Duration and Convexity In writing this note on the relationship between total return, duration and convexity, it was author's intent to produce a better understanding of ...- Authors: Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Securitization of Insurance Risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium, Chapter 6: An Actuarial Bridge to Option Pricing
Securitization of Insurance Risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium, Chapter 6: An Actuarial Bridge to Option Pricing Actuaries measure, model, and manage risks. Risk associated with the investment ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Elias Shiu
- Date: Oct 1997
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments
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Algorithms for Cash-Flow Matching
Algorithms for Cash-Flow Matching This paper presents enhancements to the classical cash-flow matching approach to developing fixed income portfolio investment strategy by allowing cash ...- Authors: Elias Shiu, Rama Kocherlakota, E S Rosenbloom
- Date: Oct 1988
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments
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Option Pricing by Esscher Transforms
Option Pricing by Esscher Transforms This paper shows that the Esscher transform is also an efficient technique for valuing derivative securities if the logarithms of the prices of the primitive ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1999
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Multivariate Duration Analysis
Multivariate Duration Analysis In this paper, a general multivariate duration analysis is introduced that does not depend on a mathematical formulation of the way in which a yield curve moves. A ...- Authors: Robert Reitano, Elias Shiu, Anthony J Zeppetella
- 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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Immunizing Stochastic Cash Flows
Immunizing Stochastic Cash Flows This paper reviews Redington's theory of immunization and sketches how it may be extended to the general case of stochastic flows by means of modern ...- Authors: Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Asset liability management
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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 bond options and interest-sensitive cash flows by discrete state/time models such as binomial ...- 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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Evaluation of the Rollover Option
Evaluation of the Rollover Option The purpose of this paper is to examine a special case of option pricing theory in which the insurance company promises the customer to exercise the option for ...- Authors: Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Investments
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Multivariate Immunization Theory
Multivariate Immunization Theory This paper discusses extending the general nonparallel shift approach to duration analysis developed previously and explores the immunization model within the ...- 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