On the Optimal Design of Insurance Contracts with Guarantees

Branger Nicole, Mahayni Antje, Schneider Judith


Abstract
The paper analyzes insurance contracts where the benefits of the insured depend on the performance of an investment strategy and which guarantee a certain interest rate on the contributions made by the insured. The insured has to decide simultaneously on the investment strategy and the guarantee scheme. For a CRRA insured and in a BS economy, the optimal combination is given by a constant mix strategy and the contribution guarantee scheme. In case the insured has a subsistence level, the CPPI strategy turns out to be optimal for arbitrary schemes. We illustrate our results by numerical examples and analyze the utility losses of a CRRA insured due to the use of a suboptimal combination of investment strategy and guarantee scheme.

Keywords
Interest rate guarantee; Optimal portfolio choice; Utility loss; Guarantee scheme; CPPI



Publication type
Research article (journal)

Peer reviewed
Yes

Publication status
Published

Year
2010

Journal
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volume
46

Issue
3

Start page
485

End page
492

Language
English

ISSN
0167-6687

DOI

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