We provide a new method, the “MV CVaR approach”, for managing unexpected mortality changes underlying annuities and life insurance. The MV CVaR approach optimizes the mean-variance tradeoff of an insurer's mortality portfolio, subject to constraints on downside risk. We apply the method of...

The purpose of this article is to study mortality-based securities, such as mortality bonds and swaps, and to price the proposed mortality securities. We focus on individual annuity data, although some of the modeling techniques could be applied to other lines of annuity or life insurance

This study investigates the asset-liability management (ALM) of life insurers in the markets with negative interest rates. Using a sample of Japanese life insurers between 1999 and 2018, we provide initial evidence that the negative interest rate environment produces a much more serious...