Research Article

Optimal Hedging and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts in a Discrete-Time Incomplete Market

Table 4

Return statistics for original and recalibrated strategies (200 simulated S&P 500 Index paths for 2005–2010).

Original strategyRecalibrated strategy

Min −99.66 Min−107.07
1st Quarter 22.27 1st Quarter 95.79
Median60.93 Median 120.23
Mean59.22 Mean 115.71
3rd Quarter 97.8433rd Quarter 151.23
Max 186.65 Max 254.15