First-Order Mortality Basis for Life Annuities

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Securitization of Mortality Risks in Life Annuities

The purpose of this paper is to study mortality-based securities, such as mortality bonds and swaps, and to price the proposed mortality securities. We focus on individual annuity data, although some of the modeling techniques could be applied to other lines of annuity or life insurance. Date: March 30, 2004. A very early version was presented at a seminar at the University of Waterloo, Departm...

Optimum taxation of life annuities

The market for private life annuities is characterised by adverse selection, that is, contracts offer lower than fair payoffs to individuals with low life expectancy. Moreover, life expectancy and income have been found to be positively correlated. The paper shows that a linear tax on annuity payoffs, which raises more revenues from long-living individuals than from short-living, represents an ...

Adjusted Money’s Worth Ratios In Life Annuities

The Money’s Worth Ratio (MWR) measures an annuity’s actuarial fairness. It is calculated as the discounted present value of the annuity’s expected future payments divided by its cost. We argue that, this measure may overestimate the value‐for‐money obtained by annuitants, since it does not adjust for liquidity or risk factors. Measuring these factors is challenging, requi...

A Basis for Mining of First-Order Knowledgebases