Polynomial diffusion models for life insurance liabilities

F Biagini, Y Zhang - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we study the pricing and hedging problem of a portfolio of life insurance
products under the benchmark approach, where the reference market is modelled as driven …

Benchmarked risk minimization

K Du, E Platen - Mathematical Finance, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper discusses the problem of hedging not perfectly replicable contingent claims
using the numéraire portfolio. The proposed concept of benchmarked risk minimization …

Less-expensive long-term annuities linked to mortality, cash and equity

K Fergusson, E Platen - Annals of Actuarial Science, 2023 - cambridge.org
This paper proposes a shift in the valuation and production of long-term annuities, away
from the classical risk-neutral methodology towards a methodology using the real-world …

Hedging of unit-linked life insurance contracts with unobservable mortality hazard rate via local risk-minimization

C Ceci, K Colaneri, A Cretarola - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate the local risk-minimization approach for a combined financial-
insurance model where there are restrictions on the information available to the insurance …

A benchmark approach to risk-minimization under partial information

C Ceci, K Colaneri, A Cretarola - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
The goal of this paper is to investigate (locally) risk-minimizing hedging strategies under the
benchmark approach in a financial semimartingale market model where there are …

A penny saved is a penny earned: Less expensive zero coupon bonds

A Gnoatto, M Grasselli, E Platen - arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04683, 2016 - arxiv.org
In this paper we show how to hedge a zero coupon bond with a smaller amount of initial
capital than required by the classical risk neutral paradigm, whose (trivial) hedging strategy …

Evaluating hybrid products: the interplay between financial and insurance markets

F Biagini - Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and …, 2013 - Springer
A current issue in the theory and practice of insurance and reinsurance markets is to find
alternative ways of securitizing risks. Insurance companies have the possibility of investing …

Insurance modeling in continuous time

Y Zhang - 2018 - edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de
In this dissertation we consider the problem of pricing and hedging insurance liabilities, by
extending concepts and methodologies recently introduced in the mathematical literature for …

Less-Expensive Valuation of Long Term Annuities Linked to Mortality, Cash and Equity

K Fergusson, E Platen - arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02808, 2017 - arxiv.org
This paper proposes a paradigm shift in the valuation of long term annuities, away from
classical no-arbitrage valuation towards valuation under the real world probability measure …

Pricing of unemployment insurance products with doubly stochastic Markov chains

F Biagini, J Widenmann - International Journal of Theoretical and …, 2012 - World Scientific
This paper provides a new approach for modeling and calculating premiums for
unemployment insurance products. The innovative modeling concept consists of combining …