[BOOK][B] Counterparty credit risk, collateral and funding: with pricing cases for all asset classes

D Brigo, M Morini, A Pallavicini - 2013 - books.google.com
The book's content is focused on rigorous and advanced quantitative methods for the pricing
and hedging of counterparty credit and funding risk. The new general theory that is required …

Variable annuities: A unifying valuation approach

AR Bacinello, P Millossovich, A Olivieri… - Insurance: Mathematics …, 2011 - Elsevier
Life annuities and pension products usually involve a number of guarantees, such as
minimum accumulation rates, minimum annual payments or a minimum total payout …

[BOOK][B] The calculus of retirement income: financial models for pension annuities and life insurance

MA Milevsky - 2006 - books.google.com
This 2006 book introduces and develops the basic actuarial models and underlying pricing
of life-contingent pension annuities and life insurance from a unique financial perspective …

The difference between LSMC and replicating portfolio in insurance liability modeling

A Pelsser, J Schweizer - European actuarial journal, 2016 - Springer
Solvency II requires insurers to calculate the 1-year value at risk of their balance sheet. This
involves the valuation of the balance sheet in 1 year's time. As for insurance liabilities …

Regression-based Monte Carlo methods for stochastic control models: Variable annuities with lifelong guarantees

YT Huang, YK Kwok - Quantitative Finance, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We present regression-based Monte Carlo simulation algorithm for solving the stochastic
control models associated with pricing and hedging of the guaranteed lifelong withdrawal …

Optimal surrender policy for variable annuity guarantees

C Bernard, A MacKay, M Muehlbeyer - Insurance: Mathematics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a technique to derive the optimal surrender strategy for a variable
annuity (VA) as a function of the underlying fund value. This approach is based on splitting …

Inside the Solvency 2 black box: net asset values and solvency capital requirements with a least-squares Monte-Carlo approach

A Floryszczak, O Le Courtois, M Majri - Insurance: Mathematics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The calculation of Net Asset Values and Solvency Capital Requirements in a
Solvency 2 context–and the derivation of sensitivity analyses with respect to the main …

[HTML][HTML] Pricing life insurance contracts with early exercise features

AR Bacinello, E Biffis, P Millossovich - Journal of computational and …, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper we describe an algorithm based on the Least Squares Monte Carlo method to
price life insurance contracts embedding American options. We focus on equity-linked …

The cost of counterparty risk and collateralization in longevity swaps

E Biffis, D Blake, L Pitotti, A Sun - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Derivative longevity risk solutions, such as bespoke and indexed longevity swaps, allow
pension schemes, and annuity providers to swap out longevity risk, but introduce …

The impact of policyholder behavior on pricing, hedging, and hedge efficiency of withdrawal benefit guarantees in variable annuities

A Kling, F Ruez, J Ruß - European Actuarial Journal, 2014 - Springer
We analyze the impact of policyholder behavior on pricing, hedging and hedge efficiency of
variable annuities with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits. We consider different …