12-B
Pricing of Guaranteed Minimum Benefits in Variable Annuities

Monday, March 31, 2014: 11:00 a.m.
Virginia Suite ABC (Washington Marriott Wardman Park)
The worldwide market of variable annuities (VAs) has been rapidly growing since their introduction in the mid-1980s in the United States. These fund-linked annuity products, which have become an essential part of the retirement plans in many countries, are often combined with additional living and death benefits. Since they are usually of a complex nature, consistent pricing of variable annuities becomes a difficult task. As there is often a trade-off between a realistic model and analytical tractability, several studies in the literature either focus on closed-form solutions, by simplifying the contract setups and the modeling assumptions, or propose numerical methods for the multi-factor models. This work aims to fill this gap by showing how the explicit representations for prices of some of the VA products can be derived in a hybrid model for insurance and market risks.
Presentation 1
Mikhail Krayzler, PhD Student, Technische Universität München
Handouts
  • Pricing of Guaranteed Minimum Benefits in Variable Annuities ICA2014 Short.pdf (715.3 kB)