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On parallel asset-liability management in life insurance: a forward risk-neutral approach. (English) Zbl 1194.91190

Summary: We discuss the development of a valuation system of asset-liability management of portfolios of life insurance policies on advanced architectures. According to the new rules of the Solvency II project, numerical simulations must provide reliable estimates of the relevant quantities involved in the contracts; therefore, valuation processes have to rely on accurate algorithms able to provide solutions in a suitable turnaround time. Our target is to develop an effective valuation software. At this aim we first introduce a change of numéraire in the stochastic processes for risks sources, thus providing estimates under the forward risk-neutral measure that result in a gain in accuracy. We then parallelize the Monte Carlo method to speed-up the simulation process.

MSC:

91G60 Numerical methods (including Monte Carlo methods)
91G50 Corporate finance (dividends, real options, etc.)
68W10 Parallel algorithms in computer science
91B30 Risk theory, insurance (MSC2010)

Software:

Diehard; SPRNG; TestU01
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