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Replicating portfolios have recently emerged as an important tool in the life insurance industry, used for the … valuation of companies' liabilities. This paper presents a replicating portfolio (RP) model for approximating life insurance … liabilities as closely as possible. We minimize the L1 error between the discounted life insurance liability cash flows and the …
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Risk transfer is a key risk and capital management tool for insurance companies. Transferring risk between insurers is … environment of insurers and consider capital costs and capital constraints at the level of individual insurance companies. We …
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This is a summary of the main topics and findings from the Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum 2017. That event gathered … experts from academia, insurance industry, regulatory bodies, and consulting companies to discuss past and current … developments as well as future perspectives in dealing with asset-liability management for long-term insurance business. Topics …
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We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using … ratio of pension assets (in funded and private pension and life insurance arrangements) to GDP, suggesting that preferred …
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We compile a rich dataset that links institutional investors' position level holdings with corporate bond characteristics and estimate demand elasticities with respect to critical sources of risk. Persistence in institutions' holdings provide us with an instrument to isolate exogenous movements...
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This article summarizes the main topics and findings from the Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum 2018. That event gathered … experts from academia, insurance industry, regulatory bodies, and consulting companies to discuss the challenges arising from … the impact of data science and, more generally, of digitalization to the insurance sector. …
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We examine the network of trading relations between insurers and dealers in the over-the-counter corporate bond market. Comprehensive regulatory data shows that many insurers use only one dealer while the largest insurers have networks of up to forty dealers. Large insurers receive better prices...
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I introduce dynamic option trading and non-linear views into the classical portfolio selection problem. The optimal dynamic option portfolio is characterized explicitly in terms of its expected sensitivities (Greeks) and the role of the mean-variance effi cient portfolio is played by the "Greek...
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We introduce a model for portfolio selection with an extendable investment universe where the agent faces a trade-off between exploiting existing and exploring for new investment opportunities. An agent with mean-variance preferences starts with an existing investment universe consisting of a...
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