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...

Financial Risk Measurement is a challenging task, because both the types of risk and the techniques evolve very quickly. This book collects a number of novel contributions to the measurement of financial risk, which address either non-fully explored risks or risk takers, and does so in a wide...