Ruin capital is a function of premium rate set to render the probability of ruin within finite time equal to a given value. The analytical studies of this function in the classical Lundberg model of risk with exponential claim sizes done in Malinovskii (2014) have shown that the ruin capital’s...

Vernic (2006), Bolancé et al. (2008), and Eling (2012) identify the skew-normal and skew-student as promising models for describing actuarial loss data. In this paper, we change the focus from the liability to the asset side and ask whether these distributions are also useful for analyzing the...

In this paper, we study the Sparre-Andersen dual risk model in which the times between positive gains are independently and identically distributed and have a generalized Erlang-n distribution. An important difference between this model and some other models such as the Erlang-n dual risk model...

In this article, we show that some important implications concerning comonotonic couples and corresponding convex order relations for their sums cannot be translated to counter-monotonicity in general. In a financial context, it amounts to saying that merging counter-monotonic positions does not...

This short note revisits the classical Theorem of Borch on the characterization of Pareto optimal risk exchange treaties under the expected utility paradigm. Our objective is to approach the optimal risk exchange problem by a new method, which is based on a Breeden–Litzenberger type integral...

This paper considers a Markov-modulated jump-diffusion risk model with randomized observation periods and threshold dividend. A second order integro-differential system of equations that characterizes the expected discounted dividend payments is obtained. As a closed-form solution does not...

This paper investigates an asset allocation problem for defined contribution pension funds with stochastic income and mortality risk under a multi-period mean–variance framework. Different from most studies in the literature where the expected utility is maximized or the risk measured by the...

Risk aggregation with dependence uncertainty refers to the sum of individual risks with known marginal distributions and unspecified dependence structure. We introduce the admissible risk class to study risk aggregation with dependence uncertainty. The admissible risk class has some nice...

This paper develops a risked-based premium calculation model for the insurance provided by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). It takes account of the pension fund’s and the plan sponsor’s investment policy and extends Chen (2011) by considering distress termination triggered by...

We consider an optimal impulse control problem on reinsurance, dividend and reinvestment of an insurance company. To close reality, we add fixed and proportional transaction costs to this problem. The value of the company is associated with expected present value of net dividends pay out minus...