This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all the steps of asset allocation: detecting the market invariants; estimating the invariants' distribution; modeling the market at any horizon; defining optimality; accounting for estimation- and model-risk; including the practitioner's experience...

Introduction and motivation -- The basic deterministic model -- The life table -- Life annuities -- Life insurance -- Insurance and annuity reserves -- Fractional durations -- Continuous payments -- Select mortality -- Multiple-life contracts -- Multiple-decrement theory -- Expenses -- Survival...