Introduction to Mathematical Portfolio Theory

This concise yet comprehensive guide focuses on the mathematics of portfolio theory without losing sight of the finance.

Author: Mark S. Joshi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107042315

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 314

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This concise yet comprehensive guide focuses on the mathematics of portfolio theory without losing sight of the finance.

Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance

Roy Cerqueti and Claudio Lupi Abstract In the context of portfolio theory, the evaluation of risk is of paramount ... Introduction. Since its inception in [7], portfolio theory has attracted the academic debate not only for its ...

Author: Marco Corazza

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319502342

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 169

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This volume gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the international conference "MAF 2016 – Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance", held in Paris (France) at the Université Paris-Dauphine from March 30 to April 1, 2016. The contributions highlight new ideas on mathematical and statistical methods in actuarial sciences and finance. The cooperation between mathematicians and statisticians working in insurance and finance is a very fruitful field, one that yields unique theoretical models and practical applications, as well as new insights in the discussion of problems of national and international interest. This volume is addressed to academicians, researchers, Ph.D. students and professionals.

Financial Models of Insurance Solvency

"Risk based premiums for guarantee funds", International Conference on Insurance Solvency, Wharton School, June. Daykin, C.D. and G.D. Bernstein ... An Introduction to Mathematical Risk Theory. Huebner Foundation Monograph Series, 8.

Author: J. David Cummins

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789400925069

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 364

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The First International Conference on Insurance Solvency was held at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania from June 18th through June 20th, 1986. The conference was the inaugural event for Wharton's Center for Research on Risk and Insurance. In atten dance were thirty-nine representatives from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The papers presented at the Conference are published in two volumes, this book and a companion volume, Classical Insurance Solvency Theory, J. D. Cummins and R. A. Derrig, eds. (Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988). The first volume presented two papers reflecting important advances in actuarial solvency theory. The current volume goes beyond the actuarial approach to encom pass papers applying the insights and techniques of financial economics. The papers fall into two groups. The first group con sists of papers that adopt an essentially actuarial or statistical ap proach to solvency modelling. These papers represent methodology advances over prior efforts at operational modelling of insurance companies. The emphasis is on cash flow analysis and many of the models incorporate investment income, inflation, taxation, and other economic variables. The papers in second group bring financial economics to bear on various aspects of solvency analysis. These papers discuss insurance applications of asset pricing models, capital structure theory, and the economic theory of agency.

Mathematical Finance  Theory Review and Exercises

Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance, pp. ... An Introduction in Discrete Time. ... A., Pflug, G. Ch.: Value-at-risk in portfolio optimization: properties and computational approach. Journal of Risk 7, ...

Author: Emanuela Rosazza Gianin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9783319013572

Category: Mathematics

Page: 277

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The book collects over 120 exercises on different subjects of Mathematical Finance, including Option Pricing, Risk Theory, and Interest Rate Models. Many of the exercises are solved, while others are only proposed. Every chapter contains an introductory section illustrating the main theoretical results necessary to solve the exercises. The book is intended as an exercise textbook to accompany graduate courses in mathematical finance offered at many universities as part of degree programs in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Mathematical Engineering, and Quantitative Finance.

University of Michigan Official Publication

Principles of portfolio management for individual investors are introduced . ... Insurance and Actuarial Science 410. ... Mathematical theory and practical problems in simple and compound interest , an . nuities , amortization , sinking ...

Author: University of Michigan

Publisher: UM Libraries

ISBN: UOM:39015078740076

Category: Education, Higher

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Each number is the catalogue of a specific school or college of the University.

Stochastic Modeling in Economics and Finance

Hunt, P. J. and Kennedy, J. E., Financial Derivatives in Theory and Practice, Wiley, Chichester, 2000. Hurt, J. and Koch, R., Mathematical methods of risk control, Proceedings of the Seminar on Actuarial Sciences, Czech Society of ...

Author: Jitka Dupacova

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9780306481673

Category: Mathematics

Page: 386

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In Part I, the fundamentals of financial thinking and elementary mathematical methods of finance are presented. The method of presentation is simple enough to bridge the elements of financial arithmetic and complex models of financial math developed in the later parts. It covers characteristics of cash flows, yield curves, and valuation of securities. Part II is devoted to the allocation of funds and risk management: classics (Markowitz theory of portfolio), capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory, asset & liability management, value at risk. The method explanation takes into account the computational aspects. Part III explains modeling aspects of multistage stochastic programming on a relatively accessible level. It includes a survey of existing software, links to parametric, multiobjective and dynamic programming, and to probability and statistics. It focuses on scenario-based problems with the problems of scenario generation and output analysis discussed in detail and illustrated within a case study.

Accounting Journals  Scopus  Web of Science  SCImago

IJFE is aimed at practitioners, researchers and graduate students in: • International economics and finance; ... and might draw on theory and methods developed in any branch of the mathematical sciences, including actuarial mathematics, ...

Author: Liudmyla Shkulipa

Publisher: Sciendo

ISBN: 9788395669675

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 287

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This book is a full guidebook among more than 218 accounting international journals with an evaluation of 3,000 publications for over the last two years. It aims to help readers for selecting an appropriate journal for publishing own research in the international arena or to find the required topic for conducting further investigating or to be informed about so large-scale science as accounting. Here a reader will find detailed information about accounting journals in terms of Scopus, Web of Science and SCImago databases. In addition, there are highlighted accounting journals in terms of IFRS and blockchain concentration in accounting researches nowadays. The relevant aims and scope of each journal are also presented. Anyway, this book is an indispensable assistant for students while getting the "Accounting" specialization, as well as teachers and scientists while conducting empirical researches in the practice and theory of the accounting filed.

Transactions

OSTASZEWSKI , K. An Investigation into Possible Applications of Fuzzy Set Methods in Actuarial Science ... P. " Synthetic Portfolio Insurance on the Italian Stock Index : from Theory to Practice , " Insurance : Mathematics and Economics ...

Author: Society of Actuaries

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Beginning with vol. for 1951 includes section: Reports of mortality and morbidity experience.

Recent Applications of Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Management

Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets . ... Exploring the International Linkages of the Euro Area : A Global VAR Analysis . ... The concept of comonotonicity in actuarial science and finance : Theory .

Author: Škrinjarić, Tihana

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781799850847

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 432

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In today's financial market, portfolio and risk management are facing an array of challenges. This is due to increasing levels of knowledge and data that are being made available that have caused a multitude of different investment models to be explored and implemented. Professionals and researchers in this field are in need of up-to-date research that analyzes these contemporary models of practice and keeps pace with the advancements being made within financial risk modelling and portfolio control. Recent Applications of Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Management is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the use of modern data analysis as well as quantitative methods for developing successful portfolio and risk management techniques. While highlighting topics such as credit scoring, investment strategies, and budgeting, this publication explores diverse models for achieving investment goals as well as improving upon traditional financial modelling methods. This book is ideally designed for researchers, financial analysts, executives, practitioners, policymakers, academicians, and students seeking current research on contemporary risk management strategies in the financial sector.

Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science  3 Volume Set

( See also Actuary ; History of Actuarial Science ; History of Actuarial Education ; National Associations of Actuaries ... The origins and meaning of " professionalism , " for actuaries , in 26th International Congress of ...

Author: Jozef L. Teugels

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: PSU:000059203100

Category: Mathematics

Page: 1842

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The Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science presents a timely and comprehensive body of knowledge designed to serve as an essential reference for the actuarial profession and all related business and financial activities, as well as researchers and students in actuarial science and related areas. Drawing on the experience of leading international editors and authors from industry and academic research the encyclopedia provides an authoritative exposition of both quantitative methods and practical aspects of actuarial science and insurance. The cross-disciplinary nature of the work is reflected not only in its coverage of key concepts from business, economics, risk, probability theory and statistics but also by the inclusion of supporting topics such as demography, genetics, operations research and informatics.

Mathematical Reviews

International Series on Actuarial Science . ... The application of mathematical finance to unit - linked life insurance is unified with the theory of distribution of surplus in life and pension insurance . The final chapter gives an ...

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ISBN: UOM:39015082440887

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Insurance and Risk Theory

1981, 'Stochastic Dominance: An Application To The Insurance Portfolio Decision, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 21 pp. 51-62. Gerber, H. U. 1979, An Introduction to Mathematical Risk Theory (Pennsylvania, Pa.; S. S. Huebner ...

Author: Marc Goovaerts

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789400946200

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 488

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Canadian financial institutions have been in rapid change in the past five years. In response to these changes, the Department of Finance issued a discussion paper: The Regulation of Canadian Financial Institutions, in April 1985, and the government intends to introduce legislation in the fall. This paper studi.es the combinantion of financial institutions from the viewpoint of ruin probability. In risk theory developed to describe insurance companies [1,2,3,4,5J, the ruin probability of a company with initial reserve (capital) u is 6 1 -:;-7;;f3 u 1jJ(u) = H6 e H6 (1) Here,we assume that claims arrive as a Poisson process, and the claim amount is distributed as exponential distribution with expectation liS. 6 is the loading, i.e., premium charged is (1+6) times expected claims. Financial institutions are treated as "insurance companies": the difference between interest charged and interest paid is regarded as premiums, loan defaults are treated as claims.

The Directory of Graduate Studies

75 City , Insurance and Risk Management , MSc ; 1 year full - time ; 2 years part - time ; introduction to theory of ... and actuarial methods in insurance and risk management ; accounting and financial reporting ; European and global ...

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ISBN: UCAL:B4467613

Category: Research

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The University of Michigan Bulletin

Topics include international trade , the balance o other restrictions on the movement of goods and services ... 620 ( Math . 620 ) . Actuarial Theory of Pensions and Social Security . Insurance and Actuarial Science 524 and 621. II .

Author: University of Michigan

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015034363377

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Each number is the catalogue of a specific school or college of the University.

Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance

Introduction. Stochastic control in finance started more than 40 years ago with Robert Merton's papers Lifetime portfolio selection under uncertainty: the continuous-time case (Merton 1969) and Optimum consumption and portfolio rules in ...

Author: Jaime A. Londoño

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319665368

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 174

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Developed from the Second International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, this volume showcases the latest progress in all theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance. Held at the Universidad de Cartagena in Cartegena, Colombia in June 2016, the conference emphasized relations between industry and academia and provided a platform for practitioners to discuss problems arising from the financial and insurance industries in the Andean and Caribbean regions. Based on invited lectures as well as carefully selected papers, these proceedings address topics such as statistical techniques in finance and actuarial science, portfolio management, risk theory, derivative valuation and economics of insurance.

Stochastic Programming

Introduction. Recently, much attention is devoted to the development of risk models, risk-averse optimization, ... utility theory, we refer to Quiggin (1993) and for its application in actuarial mathematics, see Wang et al. (1997).

Author: Gerd Infanger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 1441916423

Category: Mathematics

Page: 362

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From the Preface... The preparation of this book started in 2004, when George B. Dantzig and I, following a long-standing invitation by Fred Hillier to contribute a volume to his International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, decided finally to go ahead with editing a volume on stochastic programming. The field of stochastic programming (also referred to as optimization under uncertainty or planning under uncertainty) had advanced significantly in the last two decades, both theoretically and in practice. George Dantzig and I felt that it would be valuable to showcase some of these advances and to present what one might call the state-of- the-art of the field to a broader audience. We invited researchers whom we considered to be leading experts in various specialties of the field, including a few representatives of promising developments in the making, to write a chapter for the volume. Unfortunately, to the great loss of all of us, George Dantzig passed away on May 13, 2005. Encouraged by many colleagues, I decided to continue with the book and edit it as a volume dedicated to George Dantzig. Management Science published in 2005 a special volume featuring the "Ten most Influential Papers of the first 50 Years of Management Science." George Dantzig's original 1955 stochastic programming paper, "Linear Programming under Uncertainty," was featured among these ten. Hearing about this, George Dantzig suggested that his 1955 paper be the first chapter of this book. The vision expressed in that paper gives an important scientific and historical perspective to the book. Gerd Infanger

Financial Econometrics  Mathematics and Statistics

Theory, Method and Application Cheng-Few Lee, Hong-Yi Chen, John Lee ... Valuing Asian and portfolio options by conditioning on the geometric mean. ... The concept of comonotonicity in actuarial science and finance: theory.

Author: Cheng-Few Lee

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781493994298

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 655

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This rigorous textbook introduces graduate students to the principles of econometrics and statistics with a focus on methods and applications in financial research. Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, and Statistics introduces tools and methods important for both finance and accounting that assist with asset pricing, corporate finance, options and futures, and conducting financial accounting research. Divided into four parts, the text begins with topics related to regression and financial econometrics. Subsequent sections describe time-series analyses; the role of binomial, multi-nomial, and log normal distributions in option pricing models; and the application of statistics analyses to risk management. The real-world applications and problems offer students a unique insight into such topics as heteroskedasticity, regression, simultaneous equation models, panel data analysis, time series analysis, and generalized method of moments. Written by leading academics in the quantitative finance field, allows readers to implement the principles behind financial econometrics and statistics through real-world applications and problem sets. This textbook will appeal to a less-served market of upper-undergraduate and graduate students in finance, economics, and statistics. ​

An Introduction to Computational Risk Management of Equity Linked Insurance

Stochastic Modeling: Theory and Reality from an Actuarial Perspective. International Actuarial Association, 2010. [67] Monique Jeanblanc, Marc Yor, and Marc Chesney. Mathematical methods for financial markets. Springer Finance.

Author: Runhuan Feng

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9781498742184

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 382

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The quantitative modeling of complex systems of interacting risks is a fairly recent development in the financial and insurance industries. Over the past decades, there has been tremendous innovation and development in the actuarial field. In addition to undertaking mortality and longevity risks in traditional life and annuity products, insurers face unprecedented financial risks since the introduction of equity-linking insurance in 1960s. As the industry moves into the new territory of managing many intertwined financial and insurance risks, non-traditional problems and challenges arise, presenting great opportunities for technology development. Today's computational power and technology make it possible for the life insurance industry to develop highly sophisticated models, which were impossible just a decade ago. Nonetheless, as more industrial practices and regulations move towards dependence on stochastic models, the demand for computational power continues to grow. While the industry continues to rely heavily on hardware innovations, trying to make brute force methods faster and more palatable, we are approaching a crossroads about how to proceed. An Introduction to Computational Risk Management of Equity-Linked Insurance provides a resource for students and entry-level professionals to understand the fundamentals of industrial modeling practice, but also to give a glimpse of software methodologies for modeling and computational efficiency. Features Provides a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to quantitative risk management of equity-linked insurance with exercises and programming samples Includes a collection of mathematical formulations of risk management problems presenting opportunities and challenges to applied mathematicians Summarizes state-of-arts computational techniques for risk management professionals Bridges the gap between the latest developments in finance and actuarial literature and the practice of risk management for investment-combined life insurance Gives a comprehensive review of both Monte Carlo simulation methods and non-simulation numerical methods Runhuan Feng is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and the Director of Actuarial Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst. He is a Helen Corley Petit Professorial Scholar and the State Farm Companies Foundation Scholar in Actuarial Science. Runhuan received a Ph.D. degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Prior to joining Illinois, he held a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was named a Research Fellow. Runhuan received numerous grants and research contracts from the Actuarial Foundation and the Society of Actuaries in the past. He has published a series of papers on top-tier actuarial and applied probability journals on stochastic analytic approaches in risk theory and quantitative risk management of equity-linked insurance. Over the recent years, he has dedicated his efforts to developing computational methods for managing market innovations in areas of investment combined insurance and retirement planning.

Actuarial Research Clearing House

Bowers , N.L. , Gerber H.U. , Hickman , J.C. , Jones , D.A. and Nesbitt , C.J. ( 1986 ) , Actuarial Mathematics , Society of ... Information theoretic approach to actuarial science : A unification and extension of relevant theory and ...

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ISBN: UOM:39015053966951

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An Introduction to Market Risk Measurement

Malevergne, Y. and D. Sornette (2001) 'General framework for a portfolio theory with non-Gaussian risks and non-linear correlations. ... Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Science, UCLA.

Author: Kevin Dowd

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9780470855201

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 304

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Includes a CD-ROM that contains Excel workbooks and a Matlab manual and software. Covers the subject without advanced or exotic material.