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Non-traditional Life Insurance Products with Guarantees
£145.00
This new book by the best-selling editors of Variable Annuities analyses all investment products with guarantees - such as VAs, index linked products, CPPI-based products - from the perspective of product design, pricing, reserving value management and risk management. It examines issues that are faced by both insurance and mutual fund companies.
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9781782722038
Non-traditional Life Insurance Products with Guarantees provides an overview of all of the relevant aspects of these investment and retirement products from an insurer’s and pension plan’s perspective and offers practical and theoretical advice. The editors have brought together a team of authors from the industry, resulting in a practical and essential text for any insurer.
Chapters feature:
- Low Interest Rate Environments and the Consequences
- Capital-light Products
- The Need for Modern Forms of Annuities
- How did VAs Fare in the Crisis?
- Valuation as Basis for any Risk Management
- Life Insurance Products are Exotic Derivatives
- Models Used to Value Equity and Interest Rate Derivatives
- Stochastic Cash-flow Modelling
- Policyholder Behavioral models
- Mortality/Longevity Modelling
- Capital Markets Risks
- Managing the Risks Underlying a VA Liability
- Measuring and Monitoring Hedge Efficiency
| ISBN | 9781782722038 |
|---|---|
| Navision code | MNTL |
| Publication date | 14 Oct 2016 |
| Size | 155mmx235mm |
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Tigran Kalberer and Kannoo Ravindran
Tigran Kalberer has pioneered the application of market-consistent valuation techniques in life insurance during the last 20 years. He has applied risk management and notably ALM techniques for life insurance companies in a wide variety of situations. Having previously been at KPMG, Tigran is currently Principal and Consulting Actuary at Milliman.
Kannoo Ravindran (Ravi). Since pioneering the use of derivatives to manage market risks embedded in variable annuities at a time when writers of such risks used only traditional reinsurance/retrocession or took on the risks naked, Ravi has been working on all aspects of variable annuity risk-management (including managing such risks on a total account value exceeding USD 100 billion) and product development. Ravi is currently President and CEO of Annuity Systems.
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Environment
Low Interest Rate Environments and consequences
Risks faced by writers of investment guarantees
Variable Annuity in Asia post 2008
How did Variable Annuities Fare in the Crisis?
Capital light products - the holy grail (title tbc)
An overview of regulatory requirements
Part 2 - Modelling
Simulations
Economic Scenario Generators and Variable Annuities
Modelling and Managing policyholder behavioral risks
Modelling and Managing mortality and longevity risks
Valuation of Variable-Annuity Guarantees
Part 3 - Risk Management
Understanding and using reinsurance treaties for guaranteed products
Hedging of Long Term Fund Linked Exotic Options
Overview of commonly used risk-management strategies
Taxinomy of equity, interest rate, hybrid and customised derivatives used for risk management
Managing risks underlying a VA liability
Basis Risk
Measuring hedge Effectiveness
Measuring and reporting hedge efficiency
8 Important Questions Practitioners Should Ask When Managing Equity Linked Insurance Guarantee Risks