The increasing risk of poverty in retirement has been well-documented; it is projected that current and future retirees’ living expenses will significantly exceed their savings and income. In this paper, we consider a retiree who does not have sufficient wealth and income to fund her future expenses and we seek the asset allocation that minimizes the probability of financial ruin during her lif...

We modify the compound Poisson surplus model for an insurer by including liquid reserves and interest on the surplus. When the surplus of an insurer is below a fixed level, the surplus is kept as liquid reserves, which do not earn interest. When the surplus attains the level, the excess of the surplus over the level will receive interest at a constant rate. If the level goes to infinity, the mo...

Abstract: We consider three closely related problems in optimal control: (1) minimizing the probability of lifetime ruin when the rate of consumption is stochastic and when the individual can invest in a Black-Scholes financial market; (2) minimizing the probability of lifetime ruin when the rate of consumption is constant but the individual can invest in two risky correlated assets; and (3) a ...

A numerical method to approximate ruin probabilities is proposed within the frame of a compound Poisson ruin model. The defective density function associated to the ruin probability is projected in an orthogonal polynomial system. These polynomials are orthogonal with respect to a probability measure that belongs to Natural Exponential Family with Quadratic Variance Function (NEF-QVF). The meth...

We study a family of diffusion models for compounded risk reserves, which account for the investment income earned and for the inflation experienced on claim amounts. We are interested in the models which the dividend payments are paid from the risk reserves. After defining the process of conditional probability over finite time, the classical diffusion processes results turn the nonlinear stoc...

In this note we apply the recently established Wiener-Hopf Monte Carlo (WHMC) simulation technique for Lévy processes from Kuznetsov et al. [22] to path functionals, in particular first passage times, overshoots, undershoots and the last maximum before the passage time. Such functionals have many applications, for instance in finance (the pricing of exotic options in a Lévy model) and insurance...

In this note we apply the recently established Wiener-Hopf Monte Carlo (WHMC) simulation technique for Lévy processes from Kuznetsov et al. [17] to path functionals, in particular first passage times, overshoots, undershoots and the last maximum before the passage time. Such functionals have many applications, for instance in finance (the pricing of exotic options in a Lévy model) and insurance...