Guaranteed Annuity Options are options providing the right to convert a policyholder's accumulated funds to a life annuity at a fixed rate when the policy matures. These options were a common feature in UK retirement savings contracts issued in the 1970's and 1980's when interest rates were...

To meet future liabilities general insurance companies will set-up reserves. Predicting future cash-flows is essential in this process. Actuarial loss reserving methods will help them to do this in a sound way. The last decennium a vast literature about stochastic loss reserving for the general...

Life insurance products have profit sharing features in combination with guarantees. These so-called embedded options are often dependent on or approximated by forward swap rates. In practice, these kinds of options are mostly valued by Monte Carlo simulations. However, for risk management...

The last decennium a vast literature on stochastic mortality models has been developed. All well known models have nice features but also disadvantages. In this paper a stochastic mortality model is proposed that aims at combining the nice features from existing models, while eliminating the...

The last decennium a vast literature on stochastic mortality models has been developed. However, these models are often not directly applicable to insurance portfolios because: a) For insurers and pension funds it is more relevant to model mortality rates measured in insured amounts instead of...

Life insurance products have profit sharing features in combination with guarantees. These so-called embedded options are often dependent on or approximated by forward swap rates. In practice, these kinds of options are mostly valued by Monte Carlo simulations. However, for risk management...