Under a guaranteed annuity option, an insurer guarantees to convert a policyholder`s accumulated funds to a life annuity at a fixed rate when the policy matures. If the annuity rates provided under the guarantee are more beneficial to the policyholder than the prevailing rates in the market the...

How does a change in the risk-free interest-rate affect the value of a non-life insurance company or portfolio? Risk managers typically argue that there should be little impact as long as assets and liabilities are properly matched.

In this paper, based on the additive measure integral representation of a non-additive measure integral, it is shown that any comonotonically additive premium principle can be represented as an integral of the distorted decumulative distribution function of the insurance risk.

The probability density function of the time of ruin in the classical model with exponential claim sizes is obtained directly by inversion of the associated Laplace transform.

Based on a recent contribution by Baione and others in this Journal, some consequences of the decrease of the mean merit coefficient for portfolios of Bonus-Malus policies...

In the present paper, we study error bounds for approximations to multivariate distributions. In particular, we discuss some general versions of compound multivariate distributions and look at distributions of dependent random variables constructed by linear transforms of independent random...

In the recent actuarial literature, several proofs have been given for the fact that if a random vector (XI, X2, ..., X~) with given marginals has a comonotonic joint distribution, the sum XI + X2 + ...+ Xn is the largest possible in convex order...

Should the pricing of reinsurance catastrophes be related to the price of the default risk embedded in corporate bonds?...

In an editorial in ASTIN Bulletin, Hans Bühlmann (2002) suggests it is time to change the teaching of life insurance theory towards the real life challenges of that industry. The following note is a response to this editorial

The model used in the technique of the Life Actuary is built oni) probabilities of insured events, e.g. death, survival, disablement...