The purpose of this article is to design and price a new type of participating life insurance contract. Participating contracts are popular in the US and in European countries; they satisfy various covenants and obey various regulations depending on the country where they are issued. The...

This paper develops a general valuation approach to price barrier options when the term structure of interest rates is stochastic. These products' barriers may be constant or stochastic, in particular we examine the case of discounted barriers (at the instantaneous interest rate). So, in...

It is now known that the very impressive investment returns generated by Bernie Madoff were based on a sophisticated Ponzi scheme. Madoff claimed to use a split-strike conversion strategy. This strategy consists of a long equity position plus a long put and a short call. In this paper we examine...

In this article, we propose a new method to price numerically Parisian options by inversion of Laplace transform. We compare this method to other more traditional approaches (Monte-Carlo simulations and partial differential equation solving). We show that this method converges more rapidly and...

This article displays a study on the mutual insurance of bank deposits. A system where deposits are first insured by a consortium then by the Government is envisaged. We wish to compute the fair premia due to both the consortium and the Government. Various types of covenants aiming at making...

Regulatory authorities demand insurance companies control their risk exposure by imposing stringent risk management policies. This article investigates the optimal risk management strategy of an insurance company subject to regulatory constraints. We provide optimal reinsurance contracts under...

This article displays a study on the mutual insurance of bank deposits. A system where deposits are first insured by a consortium then by the Government is envisaged. We wish to compute the fair premia due to both the consortium and the Government. Various types of covenants aiming at making...

The paper develops an efficient Monte Carlo method to price discretely monitored Parisian options based on a control variate approach. The paper also modifies the Parisian option design by assuming the option is exercised when the barrier condition is met rather than at maturity. We obtain...