It is shown that for elliptically distributed bivariate random vectors, the riskiness and dependence strength of random portfolios, in the sense of the univariate convex and bivariate concordance stochastic orders respectively, can be simply characterised in terms of the vector's...

Modeling mortality and longevity risk presents challenges because of the impact of improvements at different ages and the existence of common trends. Modeling cause of death mortality rates is even more challenging since trends and age effects are more diverse. Despite this, successfully...

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of age-cohort survival curves under the assumption that the instantaneous mortality intensity is driven by an affine jump-diffusion (AJD) process. Advantages of an AJD specification of mortality dynamics include the availability of closed-form...