This paper provides a detailed quantitative assessment of the impact of solvency capital requirements on product pricing and shareholder value for a life insurer. A multi-period firm value maximization model for a life annuity provider, allowing for stochastic mortality and asset returns,...

The recent international credit crisis has highlighted the significant exposure that banks and insurers, especially mono-line credit insurers, have to residential house price risk. This paper provides an assessment of risk models for residential property for applications in banking and insurance...

Gesellschaftliche Veränderungen und der demografische Wandel rücken die Organisation der finanziellen Absicherung des Lebensstandards im Alter in den Blickpunkt des öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Interesses. Bedingt durch die massiven Probleme der staatlichen Altersvorsorgesysteme in...