Modelling in Life Insurance - A Management Perspective

Focusing on life insurance and pensions, this book addresses variousaspects of modelling in modern insurance: insurance liabilities;asset-liability management; securitization, hedging, and investment strategies. With contributions from internationally renowned academics in actuarialscience, finance, and management science and key people in major life insuranceand reinsurance companies, there is expert coverage of a wide range of topics,for example: models in life insurance and their roles in decision making; anaccount of the contemporary history of insurance and life insurancemathematics; choice, calibration, and evaluation of models; documentation andquality checks of data; new insurance regulations and accounting rules; cashflow projection models; economic scenario generators; model uncertainty andmodel risk; model-based decision-making at line management level; models andbehaviour of stakeholders.With author profiles ranging from highly specialized model builders todecision makers at chief executive level, this book should prove a useful resourceto students and academics of actuarial science as well as practitioners.