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Hedging of unit-linked life insurance contracts with unobservable mortality hazard rate via local risk-minimization

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  • Ceci, Claudia
  • Colaneri, Katia
  • Cretarola, Alessandra

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In this paper we investigate the local risk-minimization approach for a combined financial-insurance model where there are restrictions on the information available to the insurance company. In particular we assume that, at any time, the insurance company may observe the number of deaths from a specific portfolio of insured individuals but not the mortality hazard rate. We consider a financial market driven by a general semimartingale and we aim to hedge unit-linked life insurance contracts via the local risk-minimization approach under partial information. The Föllmer–Schweizer decomposition of the insurance claim and explicit formulas for the optimal strategy for pure endowment and term insurance contracts are provided in terms of the projection of the survival process on the information flow. Moreover, in a Markovian framework, this leads to a filtering problem with point process observations.

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  • Ceci, Claudia & Colaneri, Katia & Cretarola, Alessandra, 2015. "Hedging of unit-linked life insurance contracts with unobservable mortality hazard rate via local risk-minimization," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 47-60.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:insuma:v:60:y:2015:i:c:p:47-60
    DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2014.10.013
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    1. Claudia Ceci & Katia Colaneri & Alessandra Cretarola, 2013. "Local risk-minimization under restricted information to asset prices," Papers 1312.4385, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2014.
    2. Ceci, Claudia & Colaneri, Katia & Cretarola, Alessandra, 2014. "A benchmark approach to risk-minimization under partial information," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 129-146.
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    Keywords

    Local risk-minimization; Partial information; Unit-linked life insurance contracts; Minimal martingale measure; Föllmer-Schweizer decomposition; Markovian models; Filtering;
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    JEL classification:

    • C02 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Mathematical Economics
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies

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