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In this paper, we examine the effect of background risk on portfolio selection and optimal reinsurance design under the criterion of maximizing the probability of reaching a goal. Following the literature, we adopt dependence uncertainty to…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-01-06 Yichun Chi , Zuo Quan Xu , Sheng Chao Zhuang

We consider an insurance company whose surplus is represented by the classical Cramer-Lundberg process. The company can invest its surplus in a risk free asset and in a risky asset, governed by the Black-Scholes equation. There is a…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2011-12-20 Tatiana Belkina , Christian Hipp , Shangzhen Luo , Michael Taksar

We find the optimal indemnity to minimize the probability of ruin when premium is calculated according to the distortion premium principle with a proportional risk load, and admissible indemnities are such that both the indemnity and…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-12-08 Bahman Angoshtari , Virginia R. Young

This paper studies an optimal reinsurance problem for a utility-maximizing insurer, subject to the reinsurer's endogenous default and background risk. An endogenous default occurs when the insurer's contractual indemnity exceeds the…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-25 Zongxia Liang , Zhaojie Ren , Bin Zou

De Finetti's optimal reinsurance is a set of contracts, one for each risk in a portfolio, that caps the retained aggregate variance to a pre-specified level while minimizing total expected loss. The premiums are determined using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 N. D. Shyamalkumar , Tianrun Wang

We study a reinsurer who faces multiple sources of model uncertainty. The reinsurer offers contracts to $n$ insurers whose claims follow compound Poisson processes representing both idiosyncratic and systemic sources of loss. As the…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-03 Emma Kroell , Sebastian Jaimungal , Silvana M. Pesenti

We consider the optimal reinsurance problem from the point of view of a direct insurer owning several dependent risks, assuming a maximal expected utility criterion and independent negotiation of reinsurance for each risk. Without any…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Manuel Guerra , Alexandra B. Moura

In this paper, we study two optimisation settings for an insurance company, under the constraint that the terminal surplus at a deterministic and finite time $T$ follows a normal distribution with a given mean and a given variance. In both…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-06-13 Katia Colaneri , Julia Eisenberg , Benedetta Salterini

This paper considers an insurer with two collaborating business lines that must make three critical decisions: (1) dividend payout, (2) a combination of proportional and excess-of-loss reinsurance coverage, and (3) capital injection between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Tim J. Boonen , Engel John C. Dela Vega

We analyze the potential of reinsurance for reversing the current trend of decreasing capital guarantees in life insurance products. Providing an insurer with an opportunity to shift part of the financial risk to a reinsurer, we solve the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-21 Marcos Escobar-Anel , Yevhen Havrylenko , Michel Kschonnek , Rudi Zagst

We provide analytical results for a static portfolio optimization problem with two coherent risk measures. The use of two risk measures is motivated by joint decision-making for portfolio selection where the risk perception of the portfolio…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-19 Tahsin Deniz Aktürk , Çağın Ararat

We study optimal reinsurance in the framework of stochastic game theory, in which there is an insurer and two reinsurers. A Stackelberg model is established to analyze the non-cooperative relationship between the insurer and reinsurers,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-05-02 Liyuan Lin , Fangda Liu , Jingzhen Liu abd Luyang Yu

We study an optimal reinsurance problem under a diffusion risk model for an insurer who aims to minimize the probability of lifetime ruin. To rule out moral hazard issues, we only consider moral-hazard-free reinsurance contracts by imposing…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-04-19 Zhuo Jin , Zuo Quan Xu , Bin Zou

We investigate an optimal reinsurance problem for an insurance company facing a constant fixed cost when the reinsurance contract is signed. The insurer needs to optimally choose both the starting time of the reinsurance contract and the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-01-14 Matteo Brachetta , Claudia Ceci

In this paper we study the optimal investment and reinsurance problem of an insurance company whose investment preferences are described via a forward dynamic exponential utility in a regime-switching market model. Financial and actuarial…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-06-29 Katia Colaneri , Alessandra Cretarola , Benedetta Salterini

The optimization of large portfolios displays an inherent instability to estimation error. This poses a fundamental problem, because solutions that are not stable under sample fluctuations may look optimal for a given sample, but are, in…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-14 Susanne Still , Imre Kondor

A usual reinsurance policy for insurance companies admits one or two layers of the payment deductions. Under optimal criterion of minimizing the conditional tail expectation (CTE) risk measure of the insurer's total risk, this article…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-01-24 Amir T. Payandeh Najafabadi , Ali Panahi Bazaz

In this paper we consider an optimal investment and reinsurance problem with partially unknown model parameters which are allowed to be learned. The model includes multiple business lines and dependence between them. The aim is to maximize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Nicole Bäuerle , Gregor Leimcke

This paper investigates a robust optimal consumption, investment, and reinsurance problem for an insurer with Epstein-Zin recursive preferences operating under model uncertainty. The insurer's surplus follows the diffusion approximation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Elizabeth Dadzie , Wilfried Kuissi-Kamdem , Marcel Ndengo

Since 2016 the operation of insurance companies in the European Union is regulated by the Solvency II directive. According to the EU directive the capital requirement should be calculated as a 99.5\% of Value at Risk. In this study, we…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-04-30 Kolos Csaba Ágoston , Veronika Varga