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Two Fong-Vasicek immunization results are discussed and applied in relation to asset portfolios of a sample of Italian insurance companies managing life insurance with-profit savings. Firstly, we analyzed the contribution of Fong and Vasicek (1984) providing a lower bound on the “shortfall”...
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Since duration works best for only small changes of the interest rate, convexity helps to improve the estimation accuracy. Traditionally, convexity is displayed with a formula, which depends on the number of outstanding payments. Closed-form solutions do exist, typically building on the work of...
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We estimate corporate bond portfolios using numerous asset-specific characteristics. Our portfolio weights accommodate …
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The sovereign's intention to issue inflation-linked bonds (ILB) is to save money. More than 15 years' experience with this financial instrument in the United States and in several other countries has led to the conclusion that these bonds are costly and basically characterized by low liquidity...
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, which naturally widens as risk aversion or trading volume increases. In addition, we analyze the defaultable bond buyer …
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diversified strategy in the market, then there is no sudden bankruptcy. After that a deterministic evolutionary bond market is … studied in detail. It is certified that a bond market is evolutionary stable, which is equal to arbitrage-free if and only if … the total returns defined in this paper across all the assets are the same, or each bond is evaluated by an improper …
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escalation and inflation linked options), bond ladders, and investment portfolio. Assuming an annual decline in expenditure of 1 …, while a bond ladder provides the best solution when the baseline income is greater than about 20% of the initial portfolio …
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We empirically investigate the importance of parameter uncertainty to bond investors. Using a Bayesian approach, we …
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there is no clear common sense for that. Our main purpose in this paper is to present how the classical Fisher-Weil bond … change approximation and the associated bond hedging technique can be enhanced, such that we are able to solve simultaneously … these two issues. The good approximation of the bond or portfolio change we derive, allows to get an interesting consequence …
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A system is implemented that simulates a bond portfolio over the long-term of liabilities. It pays all liabilities and … of return potential and risk drivers on the bond allocation, on assumptions and on market conditions in order to improve … €10billion insurer portfolio. Current market conditions favor short bond duration, reducing government bonds and mixing in …
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