This book combines ideas from financial mathematics, actuarial sciences and economic theory to give a fully consistent framework for the analysis of solvency questions.

Risk management for financial institutions is one of the key topics the financial industry has to deal with. The present volume is a mathematically rigorous text on solvency modeling. Currently, there are many new developments in this area in the financial and insurance industry (Basel III and Solvency II), but none of these developments provides a fully consistent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of solvency questions. Merz and Wüthrich combine ideas from financial mathematics (no-arbitrage theory, equivalent martingale measure), actuarial sciences (insurance claims modeling, cash flow valuation) and economic theory (risk aversion, probability distortion) to provide a fully consistent framework. Within this framework they then study solvency questions in incomplete markets, analyze hedging risks, and study asset-and-liability management questions, as well as issues like the limited liability options, dividend to shareholder questions, the role of re-insurance, etc.

This work embeds the solvency discussion (and long-term liabilities) into a scientific framework and is intended for researchers as well as practitioners in the financial and actuarial industry, especially those in charge of internal risk management systems. Readers should have a good background in probability theory and statistics, and should be familiar with popular distributions, stochastic processes, martingales, etc.

Addressed to practitioners in the financial and actuarial industry as well as more academic researchers Takes into account all current solvency developments of the financial industry Core text for enterprise risk management in Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA) training and qualification ? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Michael Merz absolvierte nach einer Ausbildung zum Industriekaufmann bei der Siemens AG (Stammhauslehre) das Studium der Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät Ingolstadt (WFI) der katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Dieses schloss er als Diplombetriebswirt mit den Vertiefungen"Controlling und Unternehmensrechnung" sowie "Organisation und Personal" bzw. "Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie" ab. Seit Juli 2007 ist Herr Merz als Geschäftszweig-Controller im Bereich PTD der Siemens AG tätig.

Inhalt
1.Introduction.- *Part I: Financial Valuation Principles .- 2.State price deflators and stochastic discounting.- 3.spot rate models.- 4.Stochastic forward rate and yield curve modeling.- 5.Pricing of financial assets.- **Part II: Actuarial Valuation and Solvency. - 6.Actuarial and financial modeling.- 7.Valuation portfolio.- 8.Protected valuation portfolio.- 9.Solvency.- 10.Selected topics and examples.- Part III:* Appendix .- 11.Auxiliary considerations.- References.- Index.