Modelling in Life Insurance – A Management Perspective
Modelling in Life Insurance – A Management Perspective

Author: Jean-Paul Laurent

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-05-02

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 3319297767

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

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management

Author: Jiuping Xu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 869

ISBN-13: 303079203X

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This book gathers the proceedings of the fifteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2021) held on August 1-4, 2021, at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Toledo, Spain. The proceedings contains theoretical and practical research of decision support systems, complex systems, empirical studies, sustainable development, project management, and operation optimization, showing advanced management concepts and demonstrates substantial interdisciplinary developments in MSEM methods and practical applications. It allows researchers and practitioners in management science and engineering management (MSEM) to share their latest insights and contribution. Meanwhile, it appeals to readers interested in these areas, especially those looking for new ideas and research directions.

High-Performance Computing in Finance
High-Performance Computing in Finance

Author: M. A. H. Dempster

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 1482299674

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High-Performance Computing (HPC) delivers higher computational performance to solve problems in science, engineering and finance. There are various HPC resources available for different needs, ranging from cloud computing– that can be used without much expertise and expense – to more tailored hardware, such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or D-Wave’s quantum computer systems. High-Performance Computing in Finance is the first book that provides a state-of-the-art introduction to HPC for finance, capturing both academically and practically relevant problems.

Risk And Stochastics: Ragnar Norberg
Risk And Stochastics: Ragnar Norberg

Author: Pauline Barrieu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1786341964

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with an autobiography from Ragnar NorbergThe Risk and Stochastics Conference, held at the Royal Statistical Society in April 2015, brought together academics from the worlds of actuarial science, stochastic calculus, finance and statistics to celebrate the achievements of Professor Ragnar Norberg as he turned 70. After the conference, Ragnar Norberg suddenly fell very ill and passed away; this book honours his life and work.This collection of articles is written by speakers of the conference, themselves respected academics who have influenced and been influenced by the life and work of Professor Norberg. His professional and academic achievements are celebrated here, most significantly the instrumental work he put into setting up the world-renowned Risk and Stochastics Enterprise at the London School of Economics (LSE). Subjects covered include discussion of risk measurements, ruin constraint, supporting stable pensions, filtration in discrete time, Riesz means and Beurling moving averages and orthonormal polynomial expansions. Also featured are notes from contributors giving account of their personal relations with Professor Norberg, as well as an autobiographical chapter from the man himself.Aimed at graduate level students and researchers interested in the life and work of Ragnar Norberg, this book provides a unique opportunity to reflect on and understand key findings and ground-breaking research in modern actuarial and financial mathematics and their interface, while giving intimate insights into the life of a leading academic mind.

Modelling Mortality with Actuarial Applications
Modelling Mortality with Actuarial Applications

Author: Angus S. Macdonald

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-05-03

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 110704541X

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Modern mortality modelling for actuaries and actuarial students, with example R code, to unlock the potential of individual data.

ERM and QRM in Life Insurance
ERM and QRM in Life Insurance

Author: Ermanno Pitacco

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 3030498522

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This book deals with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and, in particular, Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) in life insurance business. Constituting a “bridge” between traditional actuarial mathematics and insurance risk management processes, its purpose is to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the Actuarial Sciences, Finance and Economics with the basics of ERM (in general) and QRM applied to life insurance business. The main topics dealt with are: general issues on ERM, risk management tools for life insurance and life annuities, deterministic and stochastic analysis of the behaviour of a portfolio fund, application of sensitivity testing to assess ranges of results of interest, stress testing to assess the impact of extreme scenarios, and the product development process for life annuity products.

Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary India
Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary India

Author: Bruno S. Sergi

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2024-07-22

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1803827513

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This volume focuses on core topics of economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic: changes in socio-cultural relationships, behavioural patterns and psychological attitudes governing human interaction, and government policies to stabilize the Indian economy and contribute to sustainable growth.

Vinzenz Bronzin's Option Pricing Models
Vinzenz Bronzin's Option Pricing Models

Author: Wolfgang Hafner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-11-18

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 3540857117

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In 1908, Vinzenz Bronzin, a professor of mathematics at the Accademia di Commercio e Nautica in Trieste, published a booklet in German entitled Theorie der Prämiengeschäfte (Theory of Premium Contracts) which is an old type of option contract. Almost like Bachelier’s now famous dissertation (1900), the work seems to have been forgotten shortly after it was published. However, almost every element of modern option pricing can be found in Bronzin’s book. He derives option prices for an illustrative set of distributions, including the Normal. - This volume includes a reprint of the original German text, a translation, as well as an appreciation of Bronzin's work from various perspectives (economics, history of finance, sociology, economic history) including some details about the professional life and circumstances of the author. The book brings Bronzin's early work to light again and adds an almost forgotten piece of research to the theory of option pricing.

The Business Model Innovation Process
The Business Model Innovation Process

Author: Yariv Taran

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-21

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1000521230

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Business Model Innovation Process: Preparation, Organization and Management examines a range of critical questions that merit thoughtful interdisciplinary consideration, such as: Why do business models, and their innovation in particular, matter today? How can the process of business model innovation be understood, organized and managed adequately under increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous technological, business and geo-political conditions? What should decision-making and risk-management look like under these conditions, with managers whose rationality is bounded? The book offers a detailed account of the relatively unknown process of business model innovation by looking into the intersection of strategic, operations and innovation management, organizational design, decision-making and performance management. In doing so, this book addresses fundamental issues, and introduces new ideas and theoretical perspectives. In envisioning and thinking about various potential scenarios of business model innovation and understanding how to organize for each of these under different conditions, the book provides original arguments and suggestions for practitioners. For that purpose, the book also offers many compelling real-life examples of business models and their innovation. Combining theory and practice, this book is an essential read for researchers and academics of business model innovation, as well as strategic management, digital transformation, innovation management and organizational change. It will also be of direct interest to practitioners and business leaders seeking new perspectives to increase their competitive advantage.