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...

Consider a discrete-time insurance risk model in which the insurer makes both risk-free and risky investments. Assume that the one-period insurance and financial risks form a sequence of independent and identically distributed copies of a random pair (X,Y) with dependent components. When the...

In this paper we investigate the ruin probability in a general risk model driven by a compound Poisson process. We derive a formula for the ruin probability from which the Albrecher-Hipp tax identity follows as a corollary. Then we study, as an important special case, the classical risk model...

We study the asymptotic behavior of the Gerber-Shiu expected discounted penalty function in the renewal risk model. Under the assumption that the claim-size distribution has a convolution-equivalent density function, which allows both heavy-tailed and light-tailed cases, we establish some...