Implicit Embedded Options in Life Insurance Contracts
Rüfenacht, Nils This book presents a market-consistent valuation framework for implicit embedded options in life insurance contracts. This framework is used to perform an empirical analysis based on more than 110, 000 actual and in-force life insurance policies and with a focus on the modeling of interest rates. Its results are the answer to the central question posed in the objectives:
What value do the embedded options and guarantees considered have?
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