We analyze the effect of enhanced annuities on an insurer engaging in individual underwriting. We use a frailty model for heterogeneity of the insured population and model individual underwriting by a random variable that positively correlates with the corresponding frailty factor. For a given...

For annuity providers, longevity risk, i.e. the risk that future mortality trends differ from those anticipated, constitutes an important risk factor. In order to manage this risk, new financial products, so-called longevity derivatives, may be needed, even though a first attempt to issue a...