(Re)insurance companies need to model their liabilities' portfolio to compute the risk-adjusted capital (RAC) needed to support their business. The RAC depends on both the distribution and the dependence functions that are applied among the risks in a portfolio. We investigate the impact of...

In this paper we develop an approach to valuation of a multiple names security portfolio. The goal of the paper to present pricing and calculation of the risk characteristics of the corporate debt based on randomization of the historical data of portfolio assets. Our approach close but it does...

This empirical study proposes a dependency analysis of monthly financial time series. We use the overlapping technique and non-parametric correlation in order to increase both accuracy and consistency. Copulas are used to test extreme co-movements between financial securities. Our results...