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An empirical comparison of some experimental designs for the valuation of large variable annuity portfolios

An empirical comparison of some experimental designs for the valuation of large variable annuity... AbstractVariable annuities contain complex guarantees, whose fair market value cannot be calculated inclosed form. To value the guarantees, insurance companies rely heavily on Monte Carlo simulation, whichis extremely computationally demanding for large portfolios of variable annuity policies. Metamodeling approacheshave been proposed to address these computational issues. An important step of metamodelingapproaches is the experimental design that selects a small number of representative variable annuity policiesfor building metamodels. In this paper, we compare empirically several multivariate experimental designmethods for the GB2 regression model, which has been recently discovered to be an attractive modelto estimate the fair market value of variable annuity guarantees. Among the experimental design methodsexamined, we found that the data clustering method and the conditional Latin hypercube sampling methodproduce the most accurate results. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dependence Modeling de Gruyter

An empirical comparison of some experimental designs for the valuation of large variable annuity portfolios

Dependence Modeling , Volume 4 (1): 1 – Dec 14, 2016

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2016 Guojun Gan and Emiliano A. Valdez
ISSN
2300-2298
eISSN
2300-2298
DOI
10.1515/demo-2016-0022
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Abstract

AbstractVariable annuities contain complex guarantees, whose fair market value cannot be calculated inclosed form. To value the guarantees, insurance companies rely heavily on Monte Carlo simulation, whichis extremely computationally demanding for large portfolios of variable annuity policies. Metamodeling approacheshave been proposed to address these computational issues. An important step of metamodelingapproaches is the experimental design that selects a small number of representative variable annuity policiesfor building metamodels. In this paper, we compare empirically several multivariate experimental designmethods for the GB2 regression model, which has been recently discovered to be an attractive modelto estimate the fair market value of variable annuity guarantees. Among the experimental design methodsexamined, we found that the data clustering method and the conditional Latin hypercube sampling methodproduce the most accurate results.

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Dependence Modelingde Gruyter

Published: Dec 14, 2016

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