From the Equivalence Principle to Market Consistent Valuation

Autor: Thomas Knispel, Gerhard Stahl, Stefan Weber
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. 113:139-172
ISSN: 1869-7135
0012-0456
DOI: 10.1365/s13291-011-0022-y
Popis: Insurance companies are exposed to many different types of risk, in particular actuarial as well as financial risks. As a consequence, the classical actuarial principle of pooling does not provide a sufficient basis for the valuation and risk management of the total portfolio of an insurance company. Instead, the methodology needs to be complemented by modern financial mathematics that enables a market consistent valuation. The current article provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of financial mathematics that were originally developed by Fischer Black, Robert Merton and Myron Scholes in the beginning of the 1970s. We will discuss the relevance of these concepts for insurance firms in the context of internal models and the computation of the market consistent embedded value (MCEV).
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