Replicating portfolios have recently emerged as an important tool in the life insurance industry, used for the … valuation of companies' liabilities. This paper presents a replicating portfolio (RP) model for approximating life insurance … liabilities as closely as possible. We minimize the L1 error between the discounted life insurance liability cash flows and the …

Guaranteed renewability is a prominent feature in many health and life insurance markets. It is well established in the … fair price for low risk types provides full insurance against reclassification risk. We develop a model that includes … unpredictable (and unobservable) fluctuations in demand for life insurance as well as changes in risk type (observable) over …