21201735 - Insurance and Pensione Funds

The aim of the course is to provide students with the theoretical foundations of calculation in life insurance, with particular reference to premiums, mathematical reserves and the insurance profit, and with the theoretical bases for understanding pension models. Students will also be able to use a spreadsheet (Excel) to solve concrete cases.

Curriculum

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Programme

STOCHASTIC CASH-FLOWS AND INSURANCE CONTRACTS
Expected Value Criterion
Utility Function
Expected Utility Criterion

BASIC DISTRIBUTION MODELS IN LIFE INSURANCE
Random Future Lifetime of a Life aged x
Life tables

LIFE INSURANCE: PRICING
Elementary life insurance products
Survival benefits
Death benefits
Endowment insurance products
Single premium and periodic premiums. Natural premiums

LIFE INSURANCE: RESERVING
Net Premium Reserve. Prospective Reserve
Retrospective Reserve
The time profile of the policy reserve
Recursive equations. Risk and savings
Homans’ Formula. Expected Profit

EXPENSE LOADINGS
The Expense-Loaded Premium
Expense-Loaded Premium Reserves
Counterinsurance

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PENSION PLANS
Social security framework
Contributions and benefits
Funding system
Benefits calculation
Demographic risks
System sustainability
Contributions calculations
Supplementary pension schemes
Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASI/IV) scheme
Exact Individual Trajectories (E.I.T.)

Core Documentation

Annamaria Olivieri, Ermanno Pitacco
Introduction to Insurance Mathematics
Springer, 2011

Type of delivery of the course

The course is organized on the basis of lectures and Excel exercises.

Type of evaluation

The overall assessment is determined by means of a final written exam. N.B. ACCORDING TO THE RECTORAL DECREE 703/2020 (EMERGENCY COVID-19), UNTIL NEW PROVISIONS BY THE UNIVERSITY, THE EXAM WILL BE TAKEN ONLY IN ORAL FORM BY MICROSOFT TEAMS

teacher profile | teaching materials

Mutuazione: 21201735 FINANZA DELL'ASSICURAZIONE E DEI FONDI PENSIONE in Finanza e impresa LM-16 N0 CARLEO ALESSANDRA

Programme

STOCHASTIC CASH-FLOWS AND INSURANCE CONTRACTS
Expected Value Criterion
Utility Function
Expected Utility Criterion

BASIC DISTRIBUTION MODELS IN LIFE INSURANCE
Random Future Lifetime of a Life aged x
Life tables

LIFE INSURANCE: PRICING
Elementary life insurance products
Survival benefits
Death benefits
Endowment insurance products
Single premium and periodic premiums. Natural premiums

LIFE INSURANCE: RESERVING
Net Premium Reserve. Prospective Reserve
Retrospective Reserve
The time profile of the policy reserve
Recursive equations. Risk and savings
Homans’ Formula. Expected Profit

EXPENSE LOADINGS
The Expense-Loaded Premium
Expense-Loaded Premium Reserves
Counterinsurance

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PENSION PLANS
Social security framework
Contributions and benefits
Funding system
Benefits calculation
Demographic risks
System sustainability
Contributions calculations
Supplementary pension schemes
Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASI/IV) scheme
Exact Individual Trajectories (E.I.T.)

Core Documentation

Annamaria Olivieri, Ermanno Pitacco
Introduction to Insurance Mathematics
Springer, 2011

Type of delivery of the course

The course is organized on the basis of lectures and Excel exercises.

Type of evaluation

The overall assessment is determined by means of a final written exam. N.B. ACCORDING TO THE RECTORAL DECREE 703/2020 (EMERGENCY COVID-19), UNTIL NEW PROVISIONS BY THE UNIVERSITY, THE EXAM WILL BE TAKEN ONLY IN ORAL FORM BY MICROSOFT TEAMS