基于Lee-Carter模型的互助养老年金研究

基于经典的双线性随机Lee-Carter模型,采用经济学的协整理论,对中国大陆男性人口死亡率进行预测,克服了ARIMA模型预测的局限性.在随机利率和Lee-Carter模型的基础上度量退休年金和生命年金的长寿风险,并为此提出应对策略,引入由消费者承担系统长寿风险、年金池承担个体长寿风险的群体自助养老年金(GSA),然后对其进行实证分析发现,与普通年金相比,GSA模型分担模式拥有较高的给付额.     

长寿风险对未来年金净保费的影响

本文深入地讨论了长寿风险对未来年金净保费的影响。一方面在随机死亡率预测的基础上,对未来年金净保费的概率分布特征进行研究,另一方面,基于年金定价的角度,在长寿风险存在的条件下比较了即期生存年金与延期生存年金二者的差异。     

基于ARMA(p,q)利息力生存年金精算现值模型

企业年金是养老保险体系的重要组成部分,其定价的合理性正受到越来越多的关注.主要是基于一般的ARM A(p,q)模型得到了随机利率下生存年金的精算现值模型,分别给出了年金给付的一阶矩和二阶矩,这对年金保险的合理收费和避免收不抵支情况的出现具有重要的指导意义.     

基于跳跃扩散死亡率模型的新型年金定价及其风险评估

由于各个年龄段的人口死亡率呈现出的明显下降趋势,依赖静态生命表的传统精算方法已经无法实现年金收支上真正的精算等价,这无疑会严重影响到保险公司的风险管理和稳健运营.因此文章尝试从死亡率的随机建模和死亡率衍生产品创新的角度来准确度量风险并进而厘清风险的权责和分摊.首先,文章将建立带跳跃过程的随机死亡率模型,以中国实际死亡率的历史数据,对模型参数进行最大似然估计,并运用Bootstrap方法对参数估计的精确程度进行检验;其次,文章在产品设计层面探讨动态的支付调整,即在年金产品中嵌入一个欧式死亡率期权,给予保险公司根据真实死亡率调整赔付额度的权利.文章的研究结果表明新型年金能够有效分散长寿风险,提高承保双方的效用,对促进商业年金的发展具有重要的现实意义和参考价值.     

模糊随机环境下的连续型变额生命年金

采用模糊随机理论,构建连续支付型变额生命年金模型.假定利率为三角模糊数,死亡率为随机变量.结合精算理论,给出了连续支付型变额生命年金精算现值的期望、方差以及分布函数和分位数的模糊表达式.最后,通过实证分析计算出一个在养老保险中常见的生命年金的相关值,验证模型的可行性.     

C-ROSS中长寿风险资本要求

为了应对长寿风险,保险公司需要对风险规模有清晰的认识.迄今为止,国内已有文献主要使用内部模型,针对中国保险公司的长寿风险做了度量.即将实施的C-ROSS为我国长寿风险度量提供了第一个标准模型,将是长寿风险度量的重要参考和强制标准.因此将在C-ROSS标准模型技术细节探讨的基础上,计算相应的长寿风险官方要求.根据文献梳理和究显示:长寿风险会给整个年金支付现值带来2~6%支付增加,其中由波动性长寿风险引发的支付增加为1.6~4%,其中(监管要求的)趋势性长寿风险引发的支付增加为1~3%.此外,与欧盟SolvencyⅡ相比,C-ROSS充分考虑了中国人口死亡率改善特点和未来发展趋势,在资本约束较强的背景下,设定了一个审慎、简洁的长寿风险资本要求.     

具有混合指数索赔分布的经典复合泊松风险模型中的分红问题

本文研究了具有某混合指数索赔分布的经典复合泊松风险模型中的分红问题.利用随机控制理论,在无界分红强度的假设下,给出了值函数的显式表达式和相应的最优分红策略.推广了文献[4]的结果.     

变额年金的最优控制

在幂效用函数和指数效用函数的条件下,讨论保险人在年金积累期和年金给付期的投资策略,建立保险人变额年金投资的最优控制模型,得出变额年金的最优控制策略.     

具有混合指数索赔分布的经典复合泊松风险模型中的分红问题（英文）

本文研究了具有某混合指数索赔分布的经典复合泊松风险模型中的分红问题.利用随机控制理论,在无界分红强度的假设下,给出了值函数的显式表达式和相应的最优分红策略.推广了文献[4]的结果.     

中国基本养老保险替代率精算模型及其应用

利用年金理论并结合1997年国务院《关于建立统一的企业职工基本养老保险制度的决定》文件,得到我国职工在不同缴费年限下基本养老保险替代率精算模型,并利用该模型对基本养老保险替代率进行模拟分析.这对于明确我国当前基本养老保险替代率及完善基本养老保险政策具有重要的理论指导意义和实际应用价值.     

On the management of life insurance company risk by strategic choice of product mix,investment strategy and surplus appropriation schemes

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of management’s strategic choice of asset and liability composition in life insurance on shortfall risk and the shareholders’ fair risk charge. In contrast to previous work, we focus on the effectiveness of management decisions regarding the product mix and the riskiness of the asset side under different surplus appropriation schemes. We propose a model setting that comprises temporary life annuities and endowment insurance contracts. Our numerical results show that the effectiveness of management decisions in regard to risk reduction strongly depends on the surplus appropriation scheme offered to the customer and their impact on guaranteed benefit payments, which thus presents an important control variable for the insurer.     

Das Vorhersagerisiko der Sterblichkeitsentwicklung – Kann es durch eine geeignete Portfoliozusammensetzung minimiert werden?

Annuities as well as term insurance create risks for the insurance companies due to changes in mortality/longevity – especially in low-interest phases. For the past decades an increase in life expectancy was observed. In this article, we examine whether an insurance company can minimise the longevity risk by means of an appropriate composition of its portfolio. We use stochastic interest rates and mortality trends. For annuities and term insurance different mortality trends are used. Based on an example we show the impact of the portfolio composition on the longevity risk. The results prove that a deliberate portfolio composition can significantly reduce the longevity risk for the insurance company.     

Optimizing the equity-bond-annuity portfolio in retirement: The impact of uncertain health expenses

This paper derives optimal equity-bond-annuity portfolios for retired households who face stochastic capital market returns, differential exposures to mortality risk and uncertain uninsured health expenses, and differential Social Security and defined benefit pension coverage. The results show that the health spending risk drives household portfolios to shift from risky equities to safer assets and enhances the demand for annuities due to their increasing-with-age superiority over bonds in hedging against life-contingent health spending and longevity risks. Households with higher income have a greater incremental demand for life annuities. The annuities in turn provide greater leverage for equity investment in the remaining asset portfolios.     

Statistical emulators for pricing and hedging longevity risk products

We propose the use of statistical emulators for the purpose of analyzing mortality-linked contracts in stochastic mortality models. Such models typically require (nested) evaluation of expected values of nonlinear functionals of multi-dimensional stochastic processes. Except in the simplest cases, no closed-form expressions are available, necessitating numerical approximation. To complement various analytic approximations, we advocate the use of modern statistical tools from machine learning to generate a flexible, non-parametric surrogate for the true mappings. This method allows performance guarantees regarding approximation accuracy and removes the need for nested simulation. We illustrate our approach with case studies involving (i) a Lee–Carter model with mortality shocks; (ii) index-based static hedging with longevity basis risk; (iii) a Cairns–Blake–Dowd stochastic survival probability model; (iv) variable annuities under stochastic interest rate and mortality.     

Semi-static hedging of variable annuities

This paper focuses on hedging financial risk in variable annuities with guarantees. We show that insurers should incorporate the specificity of the periodic payment of variable annuities fees to best hedge embedded guarantees and should focus on hedging the net liability. We develop a new hedging strategy based on semi-static hedging techniques, which takes into account the periodically collected fees, and confirm that it is more effective than delta-hedging with same rebalancing dates, as well as traditional semi-static hedging strategies that do not consider the specificity of the payments of fees in their optimization. It is also verified that short-selling or using put options as hedging instruments allows more effective hedging.     

Longevity risk management for life and variable annuities: The effectiveness of static hedging using longevity bonds and derivatives

For many years, the longevity risk of individuals has been underestimated, as survival probabilities have improved across the developed world. The uncertainty and volatility of future longevity has posed significant risk issues for both individuals and product providers of annuities and pensions. This paper investigates the effectiveness of static hedging strategies for longevity risk management using longevity bonds and derivatives (q-forwards) for the retail products: life annuity, deferred life annuity, indexed life annuity, and variable annuity with guaranteed lifetime benefits. Improved market and mortality models are developed for the underlying risks in annuities. The market model is a regime-switching vector error correction model for GDP, inflation, interest rates, and share prices. The mortality model is a discrete-time logit model for mortality rates with age dependence. Models were estimated using Australian data. The basis risk between annuitant portfolios and population mortality was based on UK experience. Results show that static hedging using q-forwards or longevity bonds reduces the longevity risk substantially for life annuities, but significantly less for deferred annuities. For inflation-indexed annuities, static hedging of longevity is less effective because of the inflation risk. Variable annuities provide limited longevity protection compared to life annuities and indexed annuities, and as a result longevity risk hedging adds little value for these products.     

Analyzing surplus appropriation schemes in participating life insurance from the insurer’s and the policyholder’s perspective

This paper examines the impact of three surplus appropriation schemes often inherent in participating life insurance contracts on the insurer’s shortfall risk and the net present value from an insured’s viewpoint. (1) In case of the bonus system, surplus is used to increase the guaranteed death and survival benefit, leading to higher reserves; (2) the interest-bearing accumulation increases only the survival benefit by accumulating the surplus on a separate account; and (3) surplus can also be used to shorten the contract term, which results in an earlier payment of the survival benefit and a reduced sum of premium payments. The pool of participating life insurance contracts with death and survival benefit is modeled actuarially with annual premium payments; mortality rates are generated based on an extension of the Lee-Carter (1992) model, and the asset process follows a geometric Brownian motion. In a simulation analysis, we then compare the influence of different asset portfolios and shocks to mortality on the insurer’s risk situation and the policyholder’s net present value for the three surplus schemes. Our findings demonstrate that, even though the surplus distribution and thus the amount of surplus is calculated the same way, the type of surplus appropriation scheme has a substantial impact on the insurer’s risk exposure and the policyholder’s net present value.     

综合人寿保险精算模型

保险是金融的重要组成部分，国际保险业发展迅速，我国保险业务较晚，资料匮乏，迫切需要引进国外先进的保险经验和保险技术，并结合我国的实际情况加以运用。本文建立了一个综合的人寿保险精算模型，其中包括生存年金，终身寿险和还本部分。通过适当的调整参数进行组合，可以获得不同的保险产品。     

Using fuzzy random variables in life annuities pricing

This paper develops life annuity pricing with stochastic representation of mortality and fuzzy quantification of interest rates. We show that modelling the present value of annuities with fuzzy random variables allows quantifying their expected price and risk resulting from the uncertainty sources considered. So, we firstly describe fuzzy random variables and define some associated measures: the mathematical expectation, the variance, distribution function and quantiles. Secondly, we show several ways to estimate the discount rates to price annuities. Subsequently, the present value of life annuities is modelled with fuzzy random variables. We finally show how an actuary can quantify the price and the risk of a portfolio of annuities when their present value is given by means of fuzzy random variables.     

Mean‐variance hedging with basis risk

Basis risk arises in a number of financial and insurance risk management problems when the hedging assets do not perfectly match the underlying asset in a hedging program. Notable examples in insurance include the hedging for longevity risks, weather index–based insurance products, variable annuities, etc. In the presence of basis risk, a perfect hedging is impossible, and in this paper, we adopt a mean‐variance criterion to strike a balance between the expected hedging error and its variability. Under a time‐dependent diffusion model setup, explicit optimal solutions are derived for the hedging target being either a European option or a forward contract. The solutions are obtained by a delicate application of the linear quadratic control theory, the method of backward stochastic differential equation, and Malliavin calculus. A numerical example is presented to illustrate our theoretical results and their interesting implications.