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Valuation and Hedging of Participating Life-Insurance Policies under Management Discretion
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When
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17.00
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Where
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Leverhulme Library, room B617, Columbia House, LSE
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Presentations
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Speaker
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Torsten Kleinow
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From
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Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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Abstract
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The valuation and hedging of participating life insurance policies, also known as with-profits policies, is considered. Such policies can be seen as European path-dependent contingent claims whose underlying security is the investment portfolio of the insurance company that sold the policy. The fair valuation of these policies is studied under the assumption that the insurance company has the right to modify the investment strategy of the underlying portfolio at any time. Furthermore, it is assumed that the issuer of the policy does not want to or cannot invest into a separate portfolio to hedge the risk associated with the policy. Instead, the issuer will use its discretion about the investment strategy of the underlying portfolio to hedge shortfall risks. In that sense, the insurer's investment portfolio serves simultaneously as the underlying security and as the hedge portfolio. This means that the hedging problem can not be separated from the valuation problem. We investigate the relationship between risk-neutral valuation and hedging of these policies in complete and incomplete financial markets.
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For further information
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Tom Hewlett (Postgraduate Administrator) Ext. 6879
Department of Statistics, Columbia House
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