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PRICING LONGEVITY-LINKED SECURITIES IN THE PRESENCE OF MORTALITY TREND CHANGES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

Arne Freimann
Arne Freimann*
Affiliation:
Institute for Finance and Actuarial Sciences (ifa) Lise-Meitner-Str. 14, 89081 Ulm, Germany Institute of Insurance Science, University of Ulm Helmholtzstr. 20, 89069 Ulm, Germany E-Mail: a.freimann@ifa-ulm.de
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E-Mail: a.freimann@ifa-ulm.de
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Abstract

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Even though the trend in mortality improvements has experienced several permanent changes in the past, the uncertainty regarding future mortality trends is often left unmodeled when pricing longevity-linked securities. In this paper, we present a stochastic modeling framework for the valuation of longevity-linked securities which explicitly considers the risk of random future changes in the long-term mortality trend. We construct a set of meaningful probability distortions which imply equivalent risk-adjusted pricing measures under which the basic model structure is preserved. Inspired by risk-based capital requirements for (re)insurers, we also establish a cost-of-capital pricing approach which then serves as the appropriate reference framework for finding a reasonable range for the market price of longevity risk. In a numerical application, we demonstrate that our model produces plausible risk loadings and show that a greater proportion of the risk loading is allocated to longer maturities when the risk of random future mortality trend changes is adequately modeled.

Keywords

Longevity risklongevity derivativesstochastic mortalitymortality trend processesG13G22

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ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , May 2021 , pp. 411 - 447
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