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Document Details : Title: Risk-Minimizing Hedging Strategies for Unit-Linked Life Insurance Contracts Author(s): MOELLER, Thomas Journal: ASTIN Bulletin Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Date: May 1998 Pages: 17-47 DOI: 10.2143/AST.28.1.519077 Abstract : A unit-linked life insurance contract ~s a contract where the insurance benefits depend on the price of some specific traded stocks We consider a model describing the uncertainty of the financial market and a portfolio of insured individuals simultaneously. Due to incompleteness the insurance claims cannot be hedged completely by trading stocks and bonds only, leaving some risk to the insurer. The theory of risk-minimization Is briefly reviewed and applied after a change of measure. Risk-minimizing trading strategies and the associated intrinsic risk processes are determined for different types of unit-linked contracts By extending the model to the situation where certain reinsurance contracts on the insured lives are traded, the direct insurer can eliminate the risk completely The corresponding self-financing strategies are determined. |
