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Insurers issuing segregated fund policies apply dynamic hedging to mitigate risks related to guarantees embedded in … the imperfect correlation between the underlying fund and its corresponding hedging instruments. The current work … discusses the implications of using fund mapping regressions when the joint dynamics of the underlying and hedging assets is a …
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We propose a way to compute the hedging Delta using the Malliavin weight method. Our approach, which we name the l …
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Hedging downside risk before substantial price corrections is vital for risk management and long-only active equity …
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hedging and diversification performance against each economy. Many research lines can benefit investors, policymakers, fund …
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Index-based hedging solutions are used to transfer the longevity risk to the capital markets. However, mismatches … between the liability of the hedger and the hedging instrument cause longevity basis risk. Therefore, an appropriate two …
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This paper extends the extreme downside correlation (EDC) and extreme downside hedge (EDH) methodology to model the interdependence in the sensitivity of assets to the downside risk of other financial assets under severe firm-level and market conditions. The model is applied to analyze both...
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We investigate the impact of model uncertainty on hedging longevity risk with index-based derivatives and assessing … longevity basis risk, which arises from the mismatch between the hedging instruments and the portfolio being hedged. We apply … uncertainty of model selection into the modeling of longevity basis risk. The hedging results under this approach may …
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portfolio. Although longevity swaps are a natural instrument for hedging longevity risk, derivatives with non-linear pay … is calibrated using Australian mortality data. The hedging of the life annuity portfolio is comprehensively assessed for … a range of assumptions for the longevity risk premium, the term to maturity of the hedging instruments, as well as the …
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basis for hedging these risks. Most indices for longevity risk are age-period based. We develop and assess a cohort …
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This paper focuses on weather derivatives as efficient risk management instruments and proposes a more advanced approach for their pricing. An "hybrid" contract is introduced, combining insurance properties, specifically tailored for the region under study and introducing Value-at-Risk (VaR) and...
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