Hedging unit-linked life insurance contracts in a financial market driven by shot-noise processes

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junna Bi ◽  
Junyi Guo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Shot Noise ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Market Driven

scholarly journals Risk-Minimizing Hedging Strategies for Unit-Linked Life Insurance Contracts

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Møller
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Trading Strategies ◽  
Risk Minimization ◽  
Change Of Measure ◽  
Insurance Benefits ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Hedging Strategies ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Risk Processes

AbstractA unit-linked life insurance contract is a contract where the insurance benefits depend on the price of some specific traded stocks. We consider a model describing the uncertainty of the financial market and a portfolio of insured individuals simultaneously. Due to incompleteness the insurance claims cannot be hedged completely by trading stocks and bonds only, leaving some risk to the insurer. The theory of risk-minimization is briefly reviewed and applied after a change of measure. Risk-minimizing trading strategies and the associated intrinsic risk processes are determined for different types of unit-linked contracts. By extending the model to the situation where certain reinsurance contracts on the insured lives are traded, the direct insurer can eliminate the risk completely. The corresponding self-financing strategies are determined.

scholarly journals Locally Risk-minimizing Hedging of Insurance Payment Streams

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Riesner
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Levy Process ◽  
Contingent Claim ◽  
Risk Minimization ◽  
Hedging Strategy ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Insurance Payment ◽  
Local Risk ◽  
Martingale Case

For the martingale case Föllmer and Sondermann (1986) introduced a unique admissible risk-minimizing hedging strategy for any square-integrable contingent claim H. Schweizer (1991) developed their theory further to the semimartingale case introducing the notion of local risk-minimization. Møller (2001) extended the theory of Föllmer and Sondermann (1986) to hedge general payment processes occurring mainly in insurance. We expand local risk-minimization to the theory of hedging general payment processes and derive such a hedging strategy for general unit-linked life insurance contracts in a general Lévy process financial market.

scholarly journals Optimal Hedging and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts in a Discrete-Time Incomplete Market

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Norman Josephy ◽  
Lucia Kimball ◽  
Victoria Steblovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Discrete Time ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Incomplete Market ◽  
Insurance Contract ◽  
Fair Price ◽  
Hedging Strategy ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Risk Return ◽  
Optimal Hedging

We present a method of optimal hedging and pricing of equity-linked life insurance products in an incomplete discrete-time financial market. A pure endowment life insurance contract with guarantee is used as an example. The financial market incompleteness is caused by the assumption that the underlying risky asset price ratios are distributed in a compact interval, generalizing the assumptions of multinomial incomplete market models. For a range of initial hedging capitals for the embedded financial option, we numerically solve an optimal hedging problem and determine a risk-return profile of each optimal non-self-financing hedging strategy. The fair price of the insurance contract is determined according to the insurer's risk-return preferences. Illustrative numerical results of testing our algorithm on hypothetical insurance contracts are documented. A discussion and a test of a hedging strategy recalibration technique for long-term contracts are presented.

STATE REGULATION OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES MARKET IN UKRAINE

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 30-47
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Nikolayevna Akimova ◽  
Alla Vasilievna Lysachok
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Credit Unions ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
State Pension

The essence of such concepts is “financial service”, “financial ser- vices market”, and “participants of the financial services market”; determined the purpose of state regulation of the financial services market; forms of state regu- lation of the financial services market; financial services that are present in the financial services market; the structure of state regulation bodies of the financial services market in Ukraine is given; The role of state bodies in the regulation of the financial services market was studied; to characterize the regulatory le- gal regulation of the financial services market in Ukraine; the main problems of functioning of the domestic market of financial services are revealed; ways to solve existing problems. It is grounded that the state regulation of financial ser- vices markets consists in the state’s implementation of a set of measures aimed at regulating and overseeing financial services markets to protect the interests of financial services consumers and preventing crisis phenomena. It is concluded that the financial services market is an important element of the development of the economy as a whole, in particular, it concerns not only the state but also society. We must understand that when this market is settled, that is, all bodies that carry out state regulation are competent in their powers, only then will we make informed, effective decisions about the normal and effective functioning of the RFP. It is important that the data of the subjects of control do not overlap, their activities should be fixed at the legislative level. It is also worth bearing in mind that appropriate conditions must be created to create compensatory mecha- nisms in the financial services markets by developing a system for guarante- eing deposits and providing for payments under long-term life insurance contracts, non-state pension provisions, deposits with deposit accounts to credit unions, etс.

scholarly journals The IFRS 17 contractual service margin: a life insurance perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Yousuf ◽  
J. Stansfield ◽  
K. Malde ◽  
N. Mirin ◽  
R. Walton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Insurance Contract ◽  
Accounting Standard ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Ifrs 4 ◽  
Insurance Perspective ◽  
To Come

Abstract IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts is a new accounting standard currently expected to come into force on 1 January 2023. It supersedes IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts. IFRS 17 establishes key principles that entities must apply in all aspects of the accounting of insurance contracts. In doing so, the Standard aims to increase the usefulness, comparability, transparency and quality of financial statements. A fundamental concept introduced by IFRS 17 is the contractual service margin (CSM). This represents the unearned profit that an entity expects to earn as it provides services. However, as a principles-based standard, IFRS 17 results in entities having to apply significant judgement when determining the inputs, assumptions and techniques it uses to determine the CSM at each reporting period. In general, the Standard resolves broad categories of mismatches which arise under IFRS 4. Notable examples include mismatches between assets recorded at current market value and liabilities calculated using fixed discount rates as well as inconsistencies in the timing of profit recognition over the duration of an insurance contract. However, there are requirements of IFRS 17 that may create economic or accounting mismatches of its own. For example, new mismatches could arise between the measurement of underlying contracts and the corresponding reinsurance held. Additionally, mismatches can still arise between the measurement of liabilities and the assets that support the liabilities. This paper explores the technical, operational and commercial issues that arise across these and other areas focusing on the CSM. As a standard that is still very much in its infancy, and for which wider consensus on topics is yet to be achieved, this paper aims to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the issues and opportunities that accompany it.

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