Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Aspekten der Identifikation und Bewertung der Rendite-/Risikoprofile von Teileinheiten des Versicherungskonzerns. Neben typisch versicherungstechnischen Einflüssen, wie beispielsweise die Gestaltung von Underwriting und Reservebildung, wird hier auch der...

1. Einleitung 2. Vorbemerkungen 2.1 Notation und Skalierungseigenschaft im Versicherungsfall 2.2 Spieltheoretische Modellierung 2.3 Axiomatische Lösungskonzepte 3. Allokationsansätze 3.1 Die Imputation 3.2 Ein Mengenansatz: Der Kern 3.3 Wertansätze 4. Schlußbetrachtungen Literaturverzeichnis

We aim to compare financial technical analysis techniques to strategies which depend on a mathematical model. In this paper, we consider the moving average indicator and an investor using a risky asset whose instantaneous rate of return changes at an unknown random time. We construct...

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The empirical literature on the asset allocation and medical expenditures ofU.S. households consistently shows that risky portfolio shares are increasing inboth wealth and health whereas health investment shares are decreasing in thesesame variables. Despite this evidence, most of the existing...

Bank supervisors have long recognized two types of shortcomingsin the Basle Accord’s risk-based capital (RBC)framework. First, the regulatory measures of “capital” maynot represent a bank’s true capacity to absorb unexpectedlosses. Deficiencies in reported loan loss reserves, forexample,...