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Prospective Lifetables: Life Insurance Pricing and Hedging in a Stochastic Mortality Environment

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  • Jorge Bravo

    (University of Évora, Department of Economics and CEFAGEUE)

  • Carlos Pereira da Silva

    (Department of Management, ISEG - Technical University of Lisbon/Portugal and CIEF)

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In life insurance, actuaries have traditionally calculated premiums and reserves using a deterministic mortality intensity, which is a function of the age of the insured only. Over the course of the 20th century, the population of the industrialized world underwent a major mortality transition, with a dramatic decline in mortality rates. The mortality decline has been dominated by two major trends: a reduction in mortality due to infectious diseases affecting mainly young ages, and a decrease in mortality at old ages. These mortality improvements have to be taken into account to price long-term life insurance products and to analyse the sustainability of social security systems. In this paper, we argue that pricing and reserving for pension and life insurance products requires dynamic (or prospective) lifetables. We briefly review classic and recent projection methods and adopt a Poisson log-bilinear approach to estimate Portuguese Prospective Lifetables. The advantages of using dynamic lifetables are twofold. Firstly, it provides more realistic premiums and reserves, and secondly, it quantifies the risk of the insurance companies associated with the underlying longevity risks. Finally, we discuss possible ways of transferring the systematic mortality risk to other parties.

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  • Jorge Bravo & Carlos Pereira da Silva, 2012. "Prospective Lifetables: Life Insurance Pricing and Hedging in a Stochastic Mortality Environment," CEFAGE-UE Working Papers 2012_01, University of Evora, CEFAGE-UE (Portugal).
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