1. Introductory concepts of financial risk management and related mathematical tools -- 2. Financial risk management in the binomial model -- 3. Advanced analysis of financial risks : discrete time models -- 4. Analysis of risks : continuous time models -- 5. Fixed income securities : modeling...

The paper uses the efficient hedging methodology in order to optimally price and hedge equity-linked life insurance contracts whose payoff depends on the performance of several risky assets. In particular, we consider a policy which pays the maximum of the values of n risky assets at some...

This paper is devoted to the problem of hedging contingent claims in the framework of a complete two-factor jump-diffusion model. In this context, it is well understood that every contingent claim can be hedged perfectly if one invests the unique arbitrage-free price. Based on the results of H....