Incorporation of stochastic policyholder behavior in analytical pricing of GMABs and GMDBs

Marcos Escobar, Mikhail Krayzler, Franz Ramsauer, David Saunders, Rudi Zagst

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Abstract

Variable annuities represent certain unit-linked life insurance products offering different types of protection commonly referred to as guaranteed minimum benefits (GMXBs). They are designed for the increasing demand of the customers for private pension provision. In this paper we analytically price variable annuities with guaranteed minimum repayments at maturity and in case of the insured’s death. If the contract is prematurely surrendered, the policyholder is entitled to the current value of the fund account reduced by the prevailing surrender fee. The financial market and the mortality model are affine linear. For the surrender model, a Cox process is deployed whose intensity is given by a deterministic function (s-curve) with stochastic inputs from the financial market. So, the policyholders’ surrender behavior depends on the performance of the financial market and is stochastic. The presented pricing scheme incorporates the stochastic surrender behavior of the policyholders and is only based on suitable closed-form approximations.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer41
FachzeitschriftRisks
Jahrgang4
Ausgabenummer4
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Dez. 2016

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