This paper considers optimal reinsurance based on an assessment of the reinsurance arrangements for a large life insurer. The objective is to determine the reinsurance structure, based on actual insurer data, using a modified mean-variance criteria that maximises the retained premiums and...

Nash (1951) claimed that every game must have a solution, even if it means a mixed strategy. His method is to find a probability that equalizes the two expected payoffs. Though simple, the calculation can be tedious. To avoid unnecessary mistake, this paper works out an algorithm to do the...

Capital efficiency and asset/liability management are part of the Enterprise Risk Management Process of any insurance/reinsurance conglomerate and serve as quantitative methods to fulfill the strategic planning within an insurance organisation. There has been a considerable amount of work in...

An optimal Bonus-Malus System (BMS) based on both the number of accidents and the severity of each accident was developed by Frangos and Vrontos (2001). In this paper we extend the work of Frangos and Vrontos (2001), Lemaire (1995) and Dionne and Vannasse (1989, 1992) using finite mixture...

The objective of this paper is to discuss the use of modern frontier efficiency analysis to analyze firm performance in the insurance industry. The objective is to provide the foundations for insurance economists to use in adapting their research to incorporate the frontier efficiency approach....

Using a multi-stage stochastic programming method, we suggest an optimal liability-driven investment(LDI) strategy for a closed defined-benefit pension fund including real assets. The objective is to jointly optimize contribution, funding ratio, and buyout cost, subject to a constraint on...

Decision-makers who usually face model/parameter risk may prefer to act prudently by identifying optimal contracts that are robust to such sources of uncertainty. In this paper, we tackle this issue under a finite uncertainty set that contains a number of probability models that are candidates...

Pareto optimal allocations and optimal risk sharing for coherent or convex risk measures as well as for insurance prices have been studied widely in the literature. In particular, Pareto optimal allocations have been characterized by applying inf-convolution of risk measures and convex...