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Actuarial Finance
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Actuarial Finance

by Mathieu Boudreault, Jean-François Renaud
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
17h 12m
English
Wiley
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Index

a

  • Absolute priority rule 23
  • Accumulation phase 159, 167
  • Actuarial functions 5
  • Actuarial liability 4
  • Annuitization phase 159
  • Annuity 159
    • Equity-linked annuity 33
  • Arbitrage opportunity 40
  • Asset
    • Consumption asset 62
    • Definition 4
    • Investment asset 62
    • Value of assets 521
  • Asset and liability management (ALM) 33, 519, 521
    • Cash-flow matching 521
    • Definition 6
    • Replication 521

b

  • Bid-ask spread 36
  • Binary option
    • Asset-or-nothing option 126
    • Binary call option 126
    • Binary put option 126
    • Black-Scholes-Merton model 411
    • Cash-or-nothing option 126
    • Definition 126
  • Binomial model 185, 397
    • American option 269
    • Approximation of the Black-Scholes formula 405
    • Approximation of the Black-Scholes-Merton model 398
    • Continuation value 270
    • Cox-Ross-Rubinstein (CRR) model 243, 405
    • Currency option 280
    • Discrete (dollar) dividend 228
    • Dividend-paying risky asset 276
    • Dynamic trading strategy 212, 250
    • Guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit (GMWB) 232
    • Holding value 270
    • Investment guarantee 194
    • Jarrow-Rudd (JR) model 243, 402
    • Market completeness 192, 218, 253, 417
    • Multi-period model 239
    • No-arbitrage condition 187, 205, 207, 241
    • One-period model 185
    • Portfolio value process 251
    • Rebalancing 212
    • Recombining tree 204, 241
    • Replicating portfolio 190, 213
    • Risk-neutral pricing formula 196, 221, 260
    • Risk-neutral probability 196, 220, 260
    • Self-financing strategy 215, 252
    • Static trading strategy 212, 250
    • Stochastic interest rate 225
    • Trading strategy 190, 250
    • Two-period model 201
  • Black-Scholes formula 403, 450, 455
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