The paper on the pricing of catastrophe options just appeared in the Proceedings of the Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference.
In complete markets, pricing financial products is easy (at least from a theoretical point of view). In incomplete markets (e.g. when the underlying process has jumps with random size, such as an insurance loss process), the price is no longer unique. So on the one hand, it becomes difficult to provide a tractable price of insurance-linked derivatives. On the other hand, when facing catastrophic losses, using the pure premium as a price might not be relevant (e.g. for solvency issues). Both financial market and (re)insurance industry have proposed techniques to price identical hedging products that can be related (e.g. Esscher transform and more generally distorted risk measures in insurance, Gerber-Shiu transform in finance). In this paper, we focus on indifference utility techniques, assuming that stock prices have jumps,related to major catastrophic losses, and thus, partial hedging should then be possible.
La conférence cette année se tiendra les 5 et 6 février (site) a Bruxelles.
Exposé à Lyon dans le cadre du projet ANR AST& Risk.
In this talk, we consider optimal reinsurance from an insurer’s point of view. Given a (low) ruin probability target, the insurers wants to find the optimal risk transfer mechanism, i.e. either a proportional or a nonproportional reinsurance treaty. In the first case, a simple Monte Carlo algorithm can be designed, but in the nonproportional case, so far, no simple (and efficient) algorithm has been proposed
Exposé dans le cadre de la Summer School of the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen: Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Solvency II. Petite réflexion à partir des déclarations du rapport technique QIS3, en particulier la déclaration qui mériterait des heures de commentaires, In view of the insufficiency of currently available data, the setting of these correlation coefficients will necessarily include a certain degree of judgement. This is also true because, when selecting correlation coefficients, allowance should be made for non-linear tail correlation, which is not captured under a “pure” linear correlation approach. To allow for this, the correlations used should be higher than simple analysis of relevant data would indicate.
Exposé sur Pricing catastrophe options in incomplete markets, à la conférence Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference (interplay between Finance and Insurance), à Bruxelles.
Cet exposé présentait la problématique de la valorisation d’options sur indices catastrophes (en marché incomplets). Une version détaillée apparaîtra dans les Proceedings.
Courte interview dans Finance Grandes Écoles, sur les conclusions du dernier rapport du Conseil d’Orientation des Retraites (www.cor-retraites.fr). Il ne s’agit pas d’un papier personnel, mais du résultat d’une interview téléphonique.