基于教育基金保险的期权定价

本文基于文献[1]引入一种基于教育年金保险的欧式看涨期权,它赋予合约持有人在约定时间以约定价格购买一份连续支付一定年限的教育年金的权利,本文运用保险精算和期权定价的二叉树方法对其进行的定价,并说明这种合约方便于一些低收入家庭进行教育投资.     

美国灾害保险期货期权的保险精算定价

考虑连续情形、几何平均保险期货价格的基础上研究欧式看涨保险期货期权的定价,运用保险精算定价的方法,最终给出了连续情形、几何平均欧式看涨保险期货期权的定价.     

基于退休金保险的期权定价

本文引入一种基于退休年金的欧式看涨期权 ,它赋予合约持有者在退休年龄或其它年龄以某一约定的价格 (执行价格 )购买一份退休年金受益的机会 .通过建立相关的精算模型对一些特定情形的定价进行了阐述 ,并与传统的退休金合约进行了比较     

混合分数布朗运动环境下欧式期权定价

假设股票价格变化过程服从混合分数布朗运动,建立了混合分数布朗环境下支付连续红利的欧式股票期权的定价模型.利用混合分数布朗运动的It-公式,将支付连续红利的欧式股票期权的定价问题转化为一个偏微分方程,通过偏微分方程求解获得了混合分数布朗运动环境下支付连续红利的欧式股票看涨期权的定价公式.     

汇率连动期权的保险精算定价

利用保险精算方法给出了汇率连动期权的定价公式,获得了欧式看涨期权和看跌期权价格的表达式及平价关系。     

支付连续红利的欧式和美式期权定价问题的研究

本文从投资策略的角度出发,针对支付连续红利欧式和美式期权,通过构造等价鞅测度,进而构造出最小保值策略即复制策略,由此得到相应的期权的一般定价公式,并在此基础上运用概率求期望和方程代换这两种方法推导出带红利标准欧式看涨期权的定价B-S公式.     

美国巨灾灾害保险期货期权的鞅方法定价

基于对数正态带跳扩散模型,利用鞅方法和修正后的期权执行条件下的保险精算方法,研究了美国巨灾灾害保险期货期权的定价问题,得到了欧式看涨保险期货期权任意时刻的定价公式.最后通过R软件进行实证分析,给出了两种方法定价的区别和联系,结果说明保险精算方法定价较为准确.     

随机支付红利的跳-扩散模型的期权定价

假设股票随机支付红利,且红利的大小与支付红利时刻及股票价格有关,并假设股票价格过程服从跳—扩散模型(其中跳跃过程为Poisson过程)的条件下,建立了股票价格行为模型,应用保险精算法给出了欧式看涨和看跌期权的定价公式,推广了Merton关于期权定价的结果。     

支付交易费的回望期权定价

以Black-Scholes模型为基础,通过对回望期权的研究,结合有交易费的欧式期权的定价公式,运用证券组合技术与无套利原理,建立了支付交易费的回望期权定价模型.通过对方程化简和分析,运到PDE相关方法化为Cauchy问题,得出定价公式.     

随机利率Vasicek模型下的欧式缺口期权的定价研究

研究随机利率Vasicek模型下欧式缺口期权的定价问题,利用偏微分方程方法给出了欧式缺口看涨期权和看跌期权的定价公式,并且是Vasicek利率模型下标准欧式期权定价公式的一种推广.     

Valuation of guaranteed minimum maturity benefits in variable annuities with surrender options

We present a numerical approach to the pricing of guaranteed minimum maturity benefits embedded in variable annuity contracts in the case where the guarantees can be surrendered at any time prior to maturity that improves on current approaches. Surrender charges are important in practice and are imposed as a way of discouraging early termination of variable annuity contracts. We formulate the valuation framework and focus on the surrender option as an American put option pricing problem and derive the corresponding pricing partial differential equation by using hedging arguments and Itô’s Lemma. Given the underlying stochastic evolution of the fund, we also present the associated transition density partial differential equation allowing us to develop solutions. An explicit integral expression for the pricing partial differential equation is then presented with the aid of Duhamel’s principle. Our analysis is relevant to risk management applications since we derive an expression of the delta for the sensitivity analysis of the guarantee fees with respect to changes in the underlying fund value. We provide algorithms for implementing the integral expressions for the price, the corresponding early exercise boundary and the delta of the surrender option. We quantify and assess the sensitivity of the prices, early exercise boundaries and deltas to changes in the underlying variables including an analysis of the fair insurance fees.     

Government-provided annuities under insolvency risk

This paper seeks to determine whether governments should intervene in the private annuity market by directly providing public insurance in the form of annuities when both the government and the insurance companies could default. It is found that, although the government could default, intervening by means of an annuity can improve social welfare if the insurance companies could default and the expected return on the public annuity is greater than the rate of return on a risk-free bond. We also find that, under actuarially fair pricing, the government should provide more in terms of a public annuity than the optimal amount of the annuity that the individual purchases in the private market if the government is less likely to default on the public annuity than an insurance company would in the case of a private annuity.     

Valuation of variable annuities with guaranteed minimum withdrawal and death benefits via stochastic control optimization

In this paper we present a numerical valuation of variable annuities with combined Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Benefit (GMWB) and Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit (GMDB) under optimal policyholder behavior solved as an optimal stochastic control problem. This product simultaneously deals with financial risk, mortality risk and human behavior. We assume that market is complete in financial risk and mortality risk is completely diversified by selling enough policies and thus the annuity price can be expressed as appropriate expectation. The computing engine employed to solve the optimal stochastic control problem is based on a robust and efficient Gauss–Hermite quadrature method with cubic spline. We present results for three different types of death benefit and show that, under the optimal policyholder behavior, adding the premium for the death benefit on top of the GMWB can be problematic for contracts with long maturities if the continuous fee structure is kept, which is ordinarily assumed for a GMWB contract. In fact for some long maturities it can be shown that the fee cannot be charged as any proportion of the account value — there is no solution to match the initial premium with the fair annuity price. On the other hand, the extra fee due to adding the death benefit can be charged upfront or in periodic installment of fixed amount, and it is cheaper than buying a separate life insurance.     

Regret aversion and annuity risk in defined contribution pension plans

The high value of the implicit option to choose a retirement date at which interest rates are particularly high and life annuities relatively cheap, leads to the possibility to introduce regret aversion in the retirement investment decision of defined contribution plan participants. As a remedy for regret aversion in retirement investment decisions, this paper develops and prices a lookback option on a life annuity contract. We determine a closed-form option value under the restriction that the option holder invests risklessly during the time to maturity of the option and without the guarantee that the exact amount of retirement wealth is converted into a life annuity at retirement. Thereafter the investment restriction is relaxed and the guarantee of exact conversion is imposed and the option is priced via Monte Carlo simulations in an economic environment with a stochastic discount factor. Option price sensitivities are determined via the pricing of alternative options. We find that the price of a lookback option, with a maturity of three years, amounts to 8%–9% of the wealth at the option issuance date. The option price is highly sensitive to the exercise price of the option, i.e. pricing alternative options (e.g. Asian) substantially lowers the price. Time to maturity and interest rate volatility are other important option price drivers. Asset allocation decisions and initial interest rates hardly affect the option price.     

Comonotonic approximations to quantiles of life annuity conditional expected present value

In large portfolios, the risk borne by annuity providers (insurance companies or pension funds) is basically driven by the randomness in the future mortality rates. To fix the ideas, we adopt here the standard Lee-Carter framework, where the future forces of mortality are decomposed in a log-bilinear way. This paper aims to provide accurate approximations for the quantiles of the conditional expected present value of the payments to the annuity provider, given the future path of the Lee-Carter time index. Mortality is stochastic while the discount factors are derived from a zero-coupon yield curve and are assumed to be deterministic. Numerical illustrations based on Belgian mortality (general population and insurance market statistics) show that the accuracy of the approximations proposed in this paper is remarkable, with relative difference less than 1% for most probability levels.     

求解美式回望期权的有限元方法

期权作为一种金融衍生产品,在欧美国家一直很受欢迎.由于其规避风险的特性,期权也吸引了中国投资者的兴趣.基于市场的需求,2015年初,上海证券交易所推出了中国首批期权产品,期权定价问题的研究热潮正席卷全球.本文研究的美式回望期权,是一种路径相关的期权,其支付函数不仅依赖于标的资产的现值,也依赖其历史最值.分析回望期权的特点,不难发现:1)这类期权空间变量的变化范围为二维无界不规则区域,难以应用数值方法直接求解;2)最佳实施边界未知,使得该问题变得高度非线性.本文的主要工作就是解决这两个困难,得到回望期权和最佳实施边界的数值逼近结果.现有的处理问题1)的有效方法是采用标准变量替换、计价单位变换以及Landau变换将定价模型化为一个[0,1]区间上的非线性抛物问题,本文也将沿用这些技巧处理问题1).进一步,采用有限元方法离散简化后的定价模型,并论证了数值解的非负性,提出了利用Newton法求解离散化的非线性系统.最后,通过数值模拟,验证了本文所提算法的高效性和准确性.     

Valuation of guaranteed annuity options using a stochastic volatility model for equity prices

Guaranteed annuity options are options providing the right to convert a policyholder’s accumulated funds to a life annuity at a fixed rate when the policy matures. These options were a common feature in UK retirement savings contracts issued in the 1970’s and 1980’s when interest rates were high, but caused problems for insurers as the interest rates began to fall in the 1990’s. Currently, these options are frequently sold in the US and Japan as part of variable annuity products. The last decade the literature on pricing and risk management of these options evolved. Until now, for pricing these options generally a geometric Brownian motion for equity prices is assumed. However, given the long maturities of the insurance contracts a stochastic volatility model for equity prices would be more suitable. In this paper explicit expressions are derived for prices of guaranteed annuity options assuming stochastic volatility for equity prices and either a 1-factor or 2-factor Gaussian interest rate model. The results indicate that the impact of ignoring stochastic volatility can be significant.     

随机利率条件下的寿险模型

本文视利息力函数为一个标准维纳过程,对寿险理论中的年金、保费进行研究,并推出了相应模型.