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Title:

The Effects Of Model Selection On The Guarantees On Target Volatility Funds

Authors:

Gabor Kondor

Published in:

 

 

 

(2018). ECMS 2018 Proceedings Edited by: Lars Nolle, Alexandra Burger, Christoph Tholen, Jens Werner, Jens Wellhausen European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2018-0005

 

ISSN: 2522-2422 (ONLINE)

ISSN: 2522-2414 (PRINT)

ISSN: 2522-2430 (CD-ROM)

 

32nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Wilhelmshaven, Germany, May 22nd – May 265h, 2018

 

 

Citation format:

Gabor Kondor (2018). The Effects Of Model Selection On The Guarantees On Target Volatility Funds, ECMS 2018 Proceedings Edited by: Lars Nolle, Alexandra Burger, Christoph Tholen, Jens Werner, Jens Wellhausen European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2018-0060

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7148/2018-0060

Abstract:

Target Volatility Funds are becoming a more and more popular asset class amongst Variable Annuity product designers. After the recent global crisis these funds provided a decent way to assure the guarantees that investors find so attractive. However, pricing of these guarantees highly depends on the modelling assumptions we use. Although this is an exciting and demanding problem, not much attention has been shed on this topic in the academic literature. In my work I extend some of the existing results to the Barndorff-Nielsen–Shephard model and to a Lévy-process with stochastic time.

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