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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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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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The aim of this paper is to investigate long-term portfolio management in a fully structural macro- financial framework. First, we estimate a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model that describes the dynamic of the US economy and financial markets. In addition to the typical...
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We build a macroeconomic model for Switzerland, the Euro Area, and the USA that drives the dynamics of several asset classes and the liabilities of a representative Swiss (defined-contribution) pension fund. This encompassing approach allows us to generate correlations between returns on assets...
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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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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 introduce an ensemble learning method for dynamic portfolio valuation and risk management building on regression trees. We learn the dynamic value process of a derivative portfolio from a finite sample of its cumulative cash flow. The estimator is given in closed form. The method is fast and...
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This paper analyzes optimal prevention in a situation of multiple, possibly correlated risks. We focus on probability reduction (self-protection) so that correlation becomes endogenous. If prevention concerns only one risk, introducing a second exogenous risk increases the level of prevention...
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