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Pricing of minimum interest guarantees: Is the arbitrage free price fair? P al Lillevold and Dag Svege 17. 10. 2002 Pricing of minimum interest guarantees: Is the arbitrage free price fair? 1 1 Outline Stating the problem The


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Pricing of minimum interest guarantees: Is the arbitrage free price fair?

P˚ al Lillevold and Dag Svege

  • 17. 10. 2002

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1 Outline

  • Stating the problem
  • The savings account
  • Case study
  • Discussion

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2 Stating the problem

  • What is the ”value” to the policyholder of an embedded interest rate

guarantee, when it is assumed that the guarantee is priced according to the arbitrage free principle?

  • Probability distributions for the amount on a linked savings account

at retirement - respectively with and without a minimum interest rate guarantee embedded.

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3 The saving account

C C 1 C 2 C T - 1 FT T

Contributions are made annually in advance.

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4 Financial market

  • A bond with current value B0 has a value at time t:

Bt = B0 eδt (1)

  • A stock with current value S0 has a value at time t :

St = S0 eLt (2) where the log-return is Lt ∼ N

µµ

µ − σ2

2

t, σ √ t

. E[St] = S0 eµt (3)

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5 Notation

µ expected rate of return on the stock σ volatility of the stock δ rate of return of the risk free asset γ minimum interest rate α proportion in the stock - rebalanced C discrete premium payments T time at retirement

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6 Return

The value at time t of a unit invested at time t − 1: at = α eGt + (1 − α) eδ (4)

  • Gt = Lt − Lt−1 ∼ N(µ − σ2

2 , σ).

  • α ∈ (0, 1) is the share/ weight invested in a given stock which develops

according to (2)

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7 The savings account without guarantee

F0 = 0 Ft = at (C + Ft−1) , t = 1, 2, ...T (5)

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8 The savings account with guarantee

F g

t = max {eγ, at (1 − p)} (C + F g t−1)

(6)

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9 Guarantee premium p

The unit guarantee premium p is obtained as the solution of the equation p = e−δ EQ[(eγ − (1 − p) at)+] = K e−δΦ(−d2) − S0 Φ(−d1), Q ∼ N

Ã

δ − σ2 2 , σ

!

(7) d2 = log(S0

K ) + (δ − σ2 2 )

σ d1 = d2 − σ K = eγ − (1 − p) (1 − α) eδ S0 = (1 − p) α

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10 Ft

g - dynamics

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t - 1 t Ft-1

g

Ft-1

g

+ C H1 - pL HFt-1

g

+ CL HFt-1

g + CL ‰g

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11 Computation

  • Analytical expressions for FT− and F g

T− distributions?

  • Stochastic Monte Carlo simulation procedure:

Gt, t ∈ {1, 2, ..., T} − → at, t ∈ {1, 2, ..., T} − → FT and F g

T

(8)

  • Sufficiently large simulated samples will be distributed approximately

according to the probability density function (pdf)

  • A measurement of ”over-performance resulting from guarantee”:

ΨT = 100

ÃF g

T

FT − 1

!

(9)

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12 Case study

µ = 10 % per year σ = 20 % per year δ = 5 % per year γ = 3 % per year α = 20 % C = 1 T = 20 years

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13 p

In this case the guarantee premium is p = 0.0117 and the guarantee becomes effective if at < eγ 1 − p = 1.0427

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14 Approximate pdfs for FT and F g

T

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15 Approximate pdf for ΨT

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16 Risk measures

min V aR(.05) CV aR(.05) FT 26.4 32.7 31.4 F g

T

29.3 33.1 32.3

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17 Sensitivity of Pr{ΨT > 0} to changes in the parameters µ and σ

σ .10 .20 .30 .07 .26 .37 .46 µ .10 .09 .20 .30 .15 .01 .05 .12

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18 Some conclusions

The safety the policyholder achieves from an interest rate guarantee is small compared to the reduced return resulting from the guarantee premium:

  • Indeed in our illustrations. Generalizations?
  • Intuition: Too expensive for the policyholder to ”allow” the provider

to do away with all risk

  • Non-arbitrage vs. time diversification — reconcilable concepts?

With high probability similar safety can be achieved by having a slightly smaller proportion in the stock.

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19 Some observations

Long standing tradition for interest rate guarantee in life and pension in- surance:

  • Pricing?
  • Asset allocation — hedging?

Regulators seem to have a positive attitude towards interest rate guarantees — in the spirit of ”consumer protection” Is interest rate guarantee a user-friendly concept? Will/should risk interest rate guarantees priced risk-neutral be in demand?

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20 Appendix: Replicating portfolio

Assume we have a stock St. We want have the possibility to sell the stock at time T for the price K. We can use two investment strategies to achieve this:

  • Buying at put option with strikeprice K.

In this case we have the stock and a put option

  • Buying the replicating portfolio. In this case we have a portfolio con-

sisting of the stock and the replicating portfolio. Option pricing and replicating portfolios are in essence two equivalent con- cepts.

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21 The two investment strategies

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