We studied the volatility assumption of non-life premium risk under the Solvency II Standard Formula and developed an empirical model on real data, the Danish fire insurance data. Our empirical model accomplishes two things. Primarily, compared to the present literature, this paper innovates the...

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus vier Teilen, die sich mit den Themen Alternative Investments, Katastrophenrisiko und Asset Pricing im Versicherungskontext auseinandersetzen. Mithilfe verschiedener Finanzinstrumente (Aktien, Fonds und Optionen) wird die Bilanz eines...

We discuss how to build ETF risk models. Our approach anchors on i) first building a multilevel (non-)binary classification/taxonomy for ETFs, which is utilized in order to define the risk factors, and ii) then building the risk models based on these risk factors by utilizing the heterotic risk...