The computation of various risk metrics is essential to the quantitative risk management of variable annuity guaranteed benefits. The current market practice of Monte Carlo simulation often requires intensive computations, which can be very costly for insurance companies to implement and take so...

In this paper life insurance contracts based on an urn-of-urns model, with age-at-death asobservable variable, are analyzed. Premium payment functions based on the principles of "equivalence on an individual level" and "equivalence on a group level" are compared. Boththe aggregate loss and its...

Premiums and benefits associated with traditional life insurance contracts are usually specified as fixed amounts in policy conditions. However, reserve-dependent surrender values and reserve-dependent expenses are common in insurance practice. The famous Cantelli theorem in life insurance...