In recent years, industry loss warranties (ILWs) have become increasingly popular in the reinsurance market. The defining feature of ILW contracts is their dependence on an industry loss index. The use of an index reduces moral hazard and generally results in lower prices compared to...

Das vorliegende Buch, angefertigt im Auftrag des Eidgenössischen Finanzdepartements EFD orientiert sich am - zur Zeit der Erstellung des Beitrags - aktuellen Stand der Diskussion zur Reform der Altersvorsorge in der Schweiz und nimmt dabei Bezug auf den Entwurf des Bundesgesetzes über die...

Trotz einer grundsätzlich positiven Ausgangslage mehren sich die Stimmen, dass in den kommenden Jahren mit erheblichen Umwälzungen in der Schweizerischen Assekuranz zu rechnen ist. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschreibt die vorliegende Studie den heutigen Stand der Assekuranz und zeigt acht...

An attractive life insurance product design becomes increasingly important due to demographic change and a declining confidence in state-run pension schemes. Most life insurance contracts are often offered with investment guarantees embedded in the savings part of the product. In addition,...

The aim of this article is to identify fair equity-premium combinations for non-life insurers that satisfy solvency capitalrequirements imposed by regulatory authorities. In particular, we compare target capital derived using the value at risk concept as planned for Solvency II in the European...

In this paper, we first discuss the characteristics and major benefits of the Swiss risk-based capital standards for insurance companies (Swiss Solvency Test), introduced in 2006. As the insurance industry is one of the largest institutional investors in Switzerland, changes to its asset and...