This article provides natural hedging strategies for life insurance and annuity businesses written on a single generation or on different generations in the presence of both longevity and interest-rate risks. We obtain closed-form solutions for delta and gamma hedges against cohort-based...

This paper provides a method to assess the risk relief deriving from a foreign expansion by a life-insurance company. We build a parsimonious continuous-time model for longevity risk, that captures the dependence across different ages in domestic versus foreign populations. We provide three...

On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities - financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth...