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The concept of best-estimate, prescribed by regulators to value insurance liabilities for accounting and solvency purposes, has recently been discussed extensively in the industry and related academic literature. To differentiate hedgeable and non-hedgeable risks in a general case, recent...
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In this paper, we evaluate the forecast performance of a range of atheoretic and theory informed models of bond and stock returns. The decision making environment is fully described for an investor who would like to optimally allocate his portfolio between bonds and stocks, over an investment...
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comprising indexed and nominal bonds are tested. The hedging ratios used in these strategies are based on an arbitrage-free model … of the term structure and on a traditional duration measure. Hedging methods are compared according to three perspectives …: impact of the extraction method, hedging methodology, and holding period. It seems that the extraction procedure and hedging …
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