We consider the problem of optimally designing longevity risk transfers under asymmetric information. We focus on holders of longevity exposures that have superior knowledge of the underlying demographic risks, but are willing to take them off their balance sheets because of capital...

We examine discounted penalties at ruin for surplus dynamics driven by a general spectrally negative Lévy process; the natural class of stochastic processes which contains many examples of risk processes which have already been considered in the existing literature. Following from the important...

The Expected Discounted Penalty Function (EDPF) was introduced in a series of now classical papers ([9], [11] and [12]). Motivated by applications in option pricing and risk management, and inspired by recent developments in fluctuation theory for Lévy processes, we study an extended definition...

We present a general framework for pricing life insurance contracts embedding a surrender option. The model allows for several sources of risk, such as uncertainty in mortality, interest rates and other financial factors. We describe and compare two numerical schemes based on the Least Squares...

1. UK pension schemes -- 2. UK pension funds and their investments -- 3. The regulatory environment -- 4. Public policy issues -- 5. Issues in pension fund management -- 6. The consequences of pension funds for capital markets -- 7. Future developments -- 8. A new approach to pension funding:...