In a shadow insurance transaction, a life insurer purchases reinsurance from an affiliated company that is licensed as a captive insurer or Special Purpose Vehicle and is not an “authorized” reinsurer. Such transactions have been scrutinized in recent years by the Federal Insurance Office,...

In participating life insurance, management decisions regarding the asset composition can substantially impact the value of a policy from the policyholders' perspective as well as the insurer's risk situation. Due to the long-term guarantees often embedded in these contracts, life insurers...

The topic of insolvency risk in connection with life insurance companies has recently attracted a great deal of attention. In this paper, the question is investigated of how the values of the equity and of the liability of a life insurance company are affected by the default risk and the choice...