Reflecting the author's wealth of experience in this field, Handbook of Solvency for Actuaries and Risk Managers: Theory and Practice focuses on the valuation of assets and liabilities, the calculation of capital requirement, and the calculation of the standard formula for the European Solvency...

Extreme value theory (EVT) deals with extreme (rare) events, which are sometimes reported as outliers. Certain textbooks encourage readers to remove outliers-in other words, to correct reality if it does not fit the model. Recognizing that any model is only an approximation of reality,...

The actuary and its environment -- Financial markets and their securities -- Forwards and futures -- Swaps -- Options -- Engineering basic options -- Engineering advanced derivatives -- Equity-linked insurance and annuities -- One-period binomial tree model -- Two-period binomial tree model --...

"It is astonishing that the methods used for claims reserving in non life-insurance are, even still today, driven by a deterministic understanding of one or several computational algorithms. Stochastic Claims Reserving Methods in Insurance is tremendously widening this traditional understanding....

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What is Reinsurance? -- 1.2 Why Reinsurance? -- 1.3 Reinsurance Data -- 1.3.1 Case Study I: Motor Liability Data -- 1.3.2 Case Study II: Dutch Fire Insurance Data -- 1.3.3 Case Study III: Austrian Storm...

Until now, solved examples of the application of stochastic control to actuarial problems could only be found in journals. Not any more: this is the first book to systematically present these methods in one volume.