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, ...

In this paper, we solve the multi-period portfolio optimization problem under new assumptions. Recently, the authors examined some distributions instead of Gaussian to fit returns to improve the optimization problem and indicated, by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, that the Kernel density estimator is the best one. In the present paper, we consider the most appropriate distribution of each asset in ea...

reinsurance is widely recognized as an important instrument in the capital management of an insurance company as well as its risk management tool. this thesis is intended to determine premium rates for different types of reinsurance policies. also, given the fact that the reinsurance coverage of every company depends upon its reserves, so different types of reserves and the method of their calc...