The replicating portfolio approach is a well-established approach carried out by many life insurance companies within their Solvency II framework for the computation of risk capital. In this note we elaborate on one specific formulation of a replicating portfolio problem. In contrast to the two...

The replicating portfolio approach is a well-established approach carried out by many life insurance companies within their Solvency II framework for the computation of risk capital. In this note, we elaborate on one specific formulation of a replicating portfolio problem. In contrast to the two...

In the last few years, the first theoretical foundations for replicating portfolios (probably the most prevailing technique for risk capital calculation in life insurance) have been given in a series of papers by Beutner et al. (2015), Pelsser and Schweizer (2015) and Beutner et al. (2013). We...

Participating life insurance contracts allow the policyholder to participate in the annual return of a reference portfolio. Additionally, they are often equipped with an annual (cliquet-style) return guarantee. The current low interest rate environment has again refreshed the discussion on risk...

Jan Natolski behandelt die Problematik der Quantifizierung des Risikokapitals aus einer theoretischen Perspektive, die in wertvolle Impulse für die praktische Handhabung mündet. Dies ist ein wichtiger Schritt, da Versicherungsunternehmen durch die Richtlinie Solvency II verpflichtet sind,...