Abstract

Journal of Actuarial Practice

Volume 13, 2006


Solvency of Life Insurance Companies: Methodological Issues

Rosa Cocozza and Emilia Di Lorenzo

Abstract

The paper deals with solvency assessment for life insurance business; some methodological issues concerning the solvency of life insurance companies, particularly connected to the investment risk, are suggested. Considerations about the technical equilibrium of an insurance portfolio and the financial regulation lead to a dynamic system involving risk measure and solvency assessment. The formal model is applied to a life annuity cohort in a stochastic context in order to exemplify the potential of the model, especially referred to the need to frame solvency assessment in a dynamic perspective.  

Key words and phrases: life insurance, financial risk, insolvency risk, capital adequacy, financial regulation

Corresponding Author:

Prof. Emilia Di Lorenzo

Dipartimento di Matematica e Statistica,

Facolta' di Economia

Universita' degli Studi di Napoli

``Federico II'', via Cintia,

Complesso Monte S.Angelo 80126 Napoli

ITALY

E-mail: diloremi@unina.it


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