In this paper, we construct new valuation schemes for the liabilities and economic capital of insurance companies. Specifically, we first build a valuation framework based on SAHARA utility functions, and second we construct a framework based on the cumulative prospect theory that incorporates...

While a lot of research concentrates on the respective merits of VaR and TCE, which are the two most classic risk indicators used by financial institutions, little has been written on the equivalence between such indicators. Further, TCE, despite its merits, may not be the most accurate...

The purpose of this article is to value some life insurance contracts in a stochastic interest rate environment taking into account the default risk of the underlying insurance company. The participating life insurance contracts considered here can be expressed as portfolios of barrier options...