This paper assesses the impact of longevity risk management on insurer shareholder value and solvency for an annual portfolio. The analysis uses a multi-period stochastic mortality model with both systematic and idiosyncratic longevity risk. We consider both survivor, or longevity, swaps that...

There is a significant potential demand in many countries around the world for a flexible product to manage individual longevity risk arising from the prevalence of defined contribution pensions, uncertainty in improvements in life expectancy, potential reductions in public pensions and a lack...

This paper assesses and compares multi-factor continuous time affine mortality models applied to age-cohort mortality curves that are well suited for theoretical and practical application in finance and insurance. Models based on Gaussian distributed mortality rates, as well as the...