Legislation imposes insurance companies to project their assets and liabilities in various financial scenarios. Within the setup of with-profit life insurance, we consider retrospective reserves and bonus, and we study projection of balances with and without policyholder behavior. The projection...

"What is complicated is not necessarily insightful and what is insightful is not necessarily complicated: Risks welcomes simple manuscripts that contribute with insight, outlook, understanding and overview"-a quote from the first editorial of this journal [1]. Good articles are not characterized...

Research in insurance and finance was always intersecting although they were originally and generally viewed as separate disciplines. Insurance is about transferring risks between parties such that the burdens of risks are borne by those who can. This makes insurance transactions a beneficial...

The empirically observed hump-shaped pattern in individuals' consumption over their life cycle cannot be explained by the classical consumption-savings model. We explicitly solve an extended model with utility depending on both consumption and leisure and with endogenous educational decisions...