Description: Articles address why longevity risk is of interest to US life insurers but not necessarily a priority and what might happen that could change that perspective. It also presents attractive options for managing longevity risk. Provides real life scenarious of how a longevity swap works.

Description: This paper first derives the fair participation rate based on a fair value of the equity-indexed annuity EIA. Then using risk measures, a new participation rate is obtained, based on the tail loading of the hedging error distribution. Risk management strategies reducing risk related to the hedging error are also presented. A detailed numerical analysis is performed for a point-to-point EIA.

Description: Chairperson's Corner is the introduction to the JRMS newletter.

Description: We analyze how volatility management techniques in VAs affected policyholders and insurance companies

Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the December 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Hear from the editor’s on the March 2017 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Hear from the editor’s on the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: Hear from the editor’s on the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the JRMS.

Description: In an effort to build a bridge between epidemiological and actuarial modeling, this paper analyzes possible financial arrangements made against expenses resulted from medical treatments given to insured patients. Based on classical compartment models, the first part of this paper designs insurance policies for susceptible participants facing the risk of infection and formulates the financial obligations of both parties using actuarial methodology. For practical purposes, the second part employs a variety of numerical methods for calculating premiums and reserves. The last part illustrates the methods by designing insurance products for the Great Plague in Eyam and the SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong.