Economic capital, variable annuity (VA), market risk, Value-at-Risk (VaR), Monte Carlo, Solvency II, path-dependent scenarios, “bump & revalue” approach, multidimensional varying Greeks, matrix of Greeks, Taylor series expansion, nested simulation, Least-Square Monte Carlo (LSMC)
bond pricing, stochastic credit spreads, enhanced Jarrow, Lando and Turnbull model, risk-neutral valuation, Markov chain, arbitrage-free condition, European embedded value, time value of options and guarantees
replicating portfolio, European embedded value, time value of options and guarantees, market-consistent valuation, participating life insurance portfolio, market risk capital requirements, financial vanilla instrument, European-style instrument, curve fitting techniq, ordinary least square technique
Hedge Funds, random walk model, Blundell-Ward model, Getmansky, Lo and Markarov model, serial correlation, smoothing, illiquidity, volatility forecasting, EWMA, ”square root of time” relationship, Markov-switching model, conditional serial correlation