Pricing maturity guarantee with dynamic withdrawal benefit
Motivated by the importance of withdrawal benefits for enhancing sales of variable annuities, we propose a new equity-linked product which provides a dynamic withdrawal benefit (DWB) during the contract period and a minimum guarantee at contract maturity. The term DWB is coined to reflect the duality between it and dynamic fund protection. Under the Black-Scholes framework and using results pertaining to reflected Brownian motion, we obtain explicit pricing formulas for the DWB payment stream and the maturity guarantee. These pricing formulas are also derived by means of Esscher transforms, which is another seminal contribution by Gerber to finance. In particular, we show that there are closed-form formulas for pricing European put and call options on a traded asset whose price can be modeled as the exponential of a reflected Brownian motion.
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2010
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Authors: | Ko, Bangwon ; Shiu, Elias S.W. ; Wei, Li |
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Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-6687. - Vol. 47.2010, 2, p. 216-223
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Dynamic fund protection Maturity guarantee Dynamic withdrawal benefit Reflected Brownian motion Esscher transforms |
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