During the past few decades, there has been a steady shift from traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plans to defined contribution (DC) pension plans. In a DC pension plan, retirees have to make decisions on how to spend their accumulated retirement funds. Although it has been proved...

Intra-group transfers are risk management tools that are usually widely used to optimise the risk position of an insurance group. In this paper, it is shown that premium and liability transfers could be optimally made in such a way as to reduce the amount of Technical Provisions and Minimum...

Although researchers have shown that purchasing longevity insurance at retirement guarantees pensioners of a high annual income for the rest of their lives, most retirees (who have a choice) choose to take the lump sum and self-manage the portfolio. This is a long-standing puzzle called the...

The improvements in mortality rates have been under investigation in many studies across the 20th century, especially in developed countries. Current literature assumes that mortality indice can be forecasted independently through the model ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average)....

In this note we introduce a theoretical model for the pricing and valuation of guaranteed annuity conversion options associated with certain deferred annuity pension-type contracts in the UK.The valuation approach is based on the similarity between the payoff structure of the contract and a call...

In this communication, we review the fair value - based accounting framework promoted by the IASB Insurance Project for the case of a life insurance company. In particular, by means of a simple participating contract with minimum guarantee, we compare the fair value approach with the...

This paper proposes an asset allocation strategy for the risk management of the broad category of participating life insurance policies. The nature of the liability implied by these contracts allows us to treat them as options written on the reference portfolio backing the policy; consequently,...

Cause-of-death mortality modeling and forecasting is an important topic in demography and actuarial science, as it can provide valuable insights into the risks and factors determining future mortality rates. In this paper, we propose a novel predictive approach for cause-of-death mortality...