This article introduces a new approach for dealing with the diversification/concentration risk of fixed income assets. Because Government bonds, corporate bonds, and mortgage securities constitute most of the assets of insurance companies in most countries, it is important to be able to...

We propose a novel model-free approach to obtain the joint risk-neutral distribution among several assets that is consistent with market prices of options on these assets and their weighted index. In an empirical application, we use options on the S&P 500 index and its nine industry sectors. The...

In this paper, we study the fair fee of a flexible premium variable annuity (FPVA), in which the policyholder can choose to pay periodic premiums during the accumulation phase instead of a single initial premium. We are able to express fair fees using a fast and accurate approximation based on...

Several approaches to model stock returns with Lévy Processes have been developed in the past years. Firstly, this article will review existing approaches and compare the latest ones through an analysis of the Lévy density. Secondly, this article will provide a simple but general...