"The substantially updated third edition of the popular Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of actuarial science, for trainee actuaries preparing for professional actuarial examinations, and for life insurance practitioners...

Risk measures play a vital role in many subfields of economics and finance. It has been proposed that risk measures could be analysed in relation to the performance of variables extracted from empirical real-world data. For example, risk measures may help inform effective monetary and fiscal...

Die Erfahrungen mit der gesetzlichen Pflegeversicherung in den Niederlanden haben in der deutschen Pflegedebatte nur wenig Beachtung gefunden. In dieser Arbeit werden sie erstmals umfassend beschrieben und analysiert. Zur Bewertung des Systems wird ein spezifischer Katalog sozialpolitischer und...

Jan Natolski behandelt die Problematik der Quantifizierung des Risikokapitals aus einer theoretischen Perspektive, die in wertvolle Impulse für die praktische Handhabung mündet. Dies ist ein wichtiger Schritt, da Versicherungsunternehmen durch die Richtlinie Solvency II verpflichtet sind,...

Overview and mathematical prerequisites -- Measuring interest -- Solving problems in interest -- Annuities -- Amortization schedules and sinking funds -- Yield rates -- Bonds -- Exact asset matching and swaps -- Interest rate sensitivity -- Determinants of interest rates.

In a bonus-malus system in car insurance, the bonus class of a customer is updated from one year to the next as a function of the current class and the number of claims in the year (assumed Poisson). Thus the sequence of classes of a customer in consecutive years forms a Markov chain, and most...

In the first book of its kind, Turnbull traces the development and implementation of actuarial ideas, from the conception of Equitable Life in the mid-18th century to the start of the 21stcentury. This book analyses the historical development of British actuarial thought in each of its three...

The actuary and its environment -- Financial markets and their securities -- Forwards and futures -- Swaps -- Options -- Engineering basic options -- Engineering advanced derivatives -- Equity-linked insurance and annuities -- One-period binomial tree model -- Two-period binomial tree model --...

In a bonus-malus system in car insurance, the bonus class of a customer is updated from one year to the next as a function of the current class and the number of claims in the year (assumed Poisson). Thus the sequence of classes of a customer in consecutive years forms a Markov chain, and most...

Die Dissertation besteht aus drei thematisch zusammenhängenden Forschungspapieren, in denen zeitstetige Konsum-, Investment- und Versicherungsprobleme über den Lebenszyklus betrachtet werden. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf realistischen Features wie stochastischem Sterberisiko und...

In a bonus-malus system in car insurance, the bonus class of a customer is updated from one year to the next as a function of the current class and the number of claims in the year (assumed Poisson). Thus the sequence of classes of a customer in consecutive years forms a Markov chain, and most...

A basic principle of statutory retirement insurance in Germany is the proportionality between earnings and retirement benefits called “Teilhabeäquivalenz”. Advocates of the system defend this principle, arguing that it ensures distributive neutrality. However, this assertion is wrong...