The valuation of insurance contracts using a market value approach, also known as the fair value approach has recently attracted a lot of interest. Seconding this trend...

Traditional ALM first sets the policy parameters and then assesses the impact on some sub-set of risk and return measures. We propose a method to ‘invert' the traditional ALM approach: first formulate the desired level of risk and return measures and then systematically search through the...

This paper defines an approximation to the value of funding ratio put options for pension funds. This option is, by construction, the ideal option to hedge the risk of a funding ratio falling below some required minimum level. It's value can be used for several applications, for example as a...

Recent theoretical results establish that time-consistent valuations (i.e. pricing operators) can be created by backward iteration of one-period valuations. In this paper we investigate the continuous-time limits of well-known actuarial premium principles when such backward iteration procedures...

We develop a new class of utility functions, SAHARA utility, with the distinguishing feature that it allows absolute risk aversion to be non-monotone and implements the assumption that agents may become less risk-averse for very low values of wealth. The class contains the well-known exponential...