Research Article
Optimal Hedging and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts in a Discrete-Time Incomplete Market
Table 1
Illustrative numerical results for two pure endowment contracts with guarantee.
| Case | Rate | Maturity | Hedging capital | Risk | Risk interval | Return | | | | | | |
| 1 | 0.02 | 10 | 206.94 | −1.83 | (−4.25, 2.96) | 43.22 | 2 | 0.02 | 10 | 258.67 | 2.53 | (0.32, 5.49) | 78.88 | 3 | 0.02 | 10 | 323.34 | 4.62 | (3.18, 7.33) | 124.92 | 4 | 0.02 | 10 | 355.67 | 5.43 | (3.32, 7.79) | 153.06 | 5 | 0.02 | 20 | 378.32 | 1.84 | (0.58, 3.95) | 114.62 | 6 | 0.02 | 20 | 442.19 | 2.61 | (1.17, 4.69) | 161.54 | 7 | 0.02 | 20 | 491.32 | 3.15 | (2.23, 4.92) | 191.72 | 8 | 0.02 | 20 | 540.45 | 3.51 | (2.49, 5.04) | 222.07 | 9 | 0.04 | 10 | 373.38 | 6.15 | (3.38, 8.92) | 195.05 | 10 | 0.04 | 10 | 434.16 | 7.18 | (4.79, 10.76) | 234.51 | 11 | 0.04 | 10 | 477.58 | 7.86 | (5.38, 11.07) | 256.19 | 12 | 0.04 | 20 | 629.13 | 3.44 | (3.04, 4.40) | 234.49 | 13 | 0.04 | 20 | 669.29 | 3.54 | (3.09, 4.86) | 256.75 | 14 | 0.04 | 20 | 736.22 | 3.69 | (3.49, 4.93) | 288.23 |
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