P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics Second Edition S. David Promislow York University, Toronto, Canada A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Publication P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics Second Edition S. David Promislow York University, Toronto, Canada A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., Publication P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come This edition first published 2011 © 2011 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Registered office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com. The right of the author to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Promislow, S. David. Fundamentals of actuarial mathematics / S. David Promislow. – 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-470-68411-5 (cloth) 1. Insurance—Mathematics. 2. Business mathematics. I. Title. HG8781.P76 2010 368′.01—dc22 2010029552 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Print ISBN: 978-0-470-68411-5 ePDF ISBN: 978-0-470-97784-2 ePub ISBN: 978-0-470-97807-8 Typeset by Aptara Inc., New Delhi, India P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come To Michael, Corinne, Natalie and Ruth P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come Contents Preface xvii Acknowledgements xxi Notation index xxiii Part I THE DETERMINISTIC MODEL 1 1 Introduction and motivation 3 1.1 Risk and insurance 3 1.2 Deterministic versus stochastic models 4 1.3 Finance and investments 5 1.4 Adequacy and equity 5 1.5 Reassessment 6 1.6 Conclusion 6 2 The basic deterministic model 7 2.1 Cashflows 7 2.2 An analogy with currencies 8 2.3 Discount functions 9 2.4 Calculating the discount function 11 2.5 Interest and discount rates 12 2.6 Constant interest 12 2.7 Values and actuarial equivalence 13 2.8 Regular pattern cashflows 17 2.9 Balances and reserves 19 2.9.1 Basic concepts 19 2.9.2 Relationship between balances and reserves 21 2.9.3 Prospective versus retrospective methods 22 2.9.4 Recursion formulas 23 2.10 Time shifting and the splitting identity 24 P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come viii CONTENTS *2.11 Change of discount function 26 *2.12 Internal rates of return 27 *2.13 Forward prices and term structure 29 2.14 Standard notation and terminology 31 2.14.1 Standard notation for cashflows discounted with interest 31 2.14.2 New notation 32 2.15 Spreadsheet calculations 33 2.16 Notes and references 33 2.17 Exercises 33 3 The life table 37 3.1 Basic definitions 37 3.2 Probabilities 38 3.3 Constructing the life table from the values of qx 39 3.4 Life expectancy 40 3.5 Choice of life tables 42 3.6 Standard notation and terminology 42 3.7 A sample table 43 3.8 Notes and references 43 3.9 Exercises 43 4 Life annuities 45 4.1 Introduction 45 4.2 Calculating annuity premiums 46 4.3 The interest and survivorship discount function 48 4.3.1 The basic definition 48 4.3.2 Relations between yx for various values of x 50 4.3.3 Tontines 51 4.4 Guaranteed payments 52 4.5 Deferred annuities with annual premiums 53 4.6 Some practical considerations 54 4.6.1 Gross premiums 54 4.6.2 Gender aspects 55 4.7 Standard notation and terminology 55 4.8 Spreadsheet calculations 56 4.9 Exercises 57 5 Life insurance 60 5.1 Introduction 60 5.2 Calculating life insurance premiums 60 5.3 Types of life insurance 63 5.4 Combined insurance–annuity benefits 63 5.5 Insurances viewed as annuities 67 5.6 Summary of formulas 68 5.7 A general insurance–annuity identity 69 5.7.1 The main theorem 69 5.7.2 The endowment identity 69 P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come CONTENTS ix 5.8 Standard notation and terminology 71 5.8.1 Single premium notation 71 5.8.2 Annual premium notation 72 5.8.3 Identities 72 5.9 Spreadsheet applications 72 5.10 Exercises 73 6 Insurance and annuity reserves 76 6.1 Introduction to reserves 76 6.2 The general pattern of reserves 79 6.3 Recursion 80 6.4 Detailed analysis of an insurance or annuity contract 81 6.4.1 Gains and losses 81 6.4.2 The risk–savings decomposition 83 6.5 Interest and mortality bases for reserves 84 6.6 Nonforfeiture values 86 6.7 Policies involving a ‘return of the reserve’ 87 6.8 Premium difference and paid-up formulas 88 6.8.1 Premium difference formulas 88 6.8.2 Paid-up formulas 89 6.8.3 Level endowment reserves 89 *6.9 Universal life and variable annuities 89 6.9.1 Universal life 90 6.9.2 Variable annuities 93 6.10 Standard notation and terminology 94 6.11 Spreadsheet applications 95 6.12 Exercises 96 7 Fractional durations 101 7.1 Introduction 101 7.2 Cashflows discounted with interest only 102 7.3 Life annuities paid mthly 104 7.3.1 Uniform distribution of deaths 104 7.3.2 Present value formulas 105 7.4 Immediate annuities 106 7.5 Approximation and computation 107 *7.6 Fractional period premiums and reserves 109 7.7 Reserves at fractional durations 110 7.8 Notes and references 112 7.9 Exercises 112 8 Continuous payments 115 8.1 Introduction to continuous annuities 115 8.2 The force of discount 116 8.3 The constant interest case 117 8.4 Continuous life annuities 118 8.4.1 Basic definition 118 P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come x CONTENTS 8.4.2 Evaluation 119 8.4.3 Life expectancy revisited 120 8.5 The force of mortality 121 8.6 Insurances payable at the moment of death 122 8.6.1 Basic definitions 122 8.6.2 Evaluation 123 8.7 Premiums and reserves 125 8.8 The general insurance–annuity identity in the continuous case 126 8.9 Differential equations for reserves 127 8.10 Some examples of exact calculation 128 8.10.1 Constant force of mortality 128 8.10.2 Demoivre’s law 129 8.10.3 An example of the splitting identity 130 8.11 Standard actuarial notation and terminology 131 8.12 Notes and references 131 8.13 Exercises 132 9 Select mortality 136 9.1 Introduction 136 9.2 Select and ultimate tables 137 9.3 Changes in formulas 138 9.4 Projections in annuity tables 140 9.5 Further remarks 141 9.6 Exercises 141 10 Multiple-life contracts 143 10.1 Introduction 143 10.2 The joint-life status 143 10.3 Joint-life annuities and insurances 145 10.4 Last-survivor annuities and insurances 146 10.5 Moment of death insurances 147 10.6 The general two-life annuity contract 149 10.7 The general two-life insurance contract 150 10.8 Contingent insurances 151 10.8.1 First-death contingent insurances 151 10.8.2 Second-death contingent insurances 152 10.8.3 Moment-of-death contingent insurances 153 10.8.4 General contingent probabilities 153 10.9 Duration problems 154 10.10 Applications to annuity credit risk 157 10.11 Standard notation and terminology 158 10.12 Spreadsheet applications 159 10.13 Notes and references 159 10.14 Exercises 159 11 Multiple-decrement theory 164 11.1 Introduction 164 P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come CONTENTS xi 11.2 The basic model 164 11.2.1 The multiple-decrement table 165 11.2.2 Quantities calculated from the multiple-decrement table 166 11.3 Insurances 167 11.4 Determining the model from the forces of decrement 168 11.5 The analogy with joint-life statuses 169 11.6 A machine analogy 169 11.6.1 Method 1 170 11.6.2 Method 2 171 11.7 Associated single-decrement tables 173 11.7.1 The main methods 173 11.7.2 Forces of decrement in the associated single-decrement tables 174 11.7.3 Conditions justifying the two methods 175 11.7.4 Other approaches 178 11.8 Notes and references 179 11.9 Exercises 179 12 Expenses 182 12.1 Introduction 182 12.2 Effect on reserves 184 12.3 Realistic reserve and balance calculations 185 12.4 Notes and references 187 12.5 Exercises 187 Part II THE STOCHASTIC MODEL 189 13 Survival distributions and failure times 191 13.1 Introduction to survival distributions 191 13.2 The discrete case 192 13.3 The continuous case 193 13.3.1 The basic functions 194 13.3.2 Properties of µ 194 13.3.3 Modes 195 13.4 Examples 195 13.4.1 The exponential distribution 195 13.4.2 The uniform distribution 195 13.4.3 The Gompertz–Makeham distribution 196 13.5 Shifted distributions 197 13.6 The standard approximation 198 13.7 The stochastic life table 199 13.8 Life expectancy in the stochastic model 201 13.9 Stochastic interest rates 202 13.10 Notes and references 202 13.11 Exercises 203 P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE fm JWST022-Promislow October 13, 2010 13:19 Printer Name: Yet to Come xii CONTENTS 14 The stochastic approach to insurance and annuities 205 14.1 Introduction 205 14.2 The stochastic approach to insurance benefits 206 14.2.1 The discrete case 206 14.2.2 The continuous case 206 14.2.3 Approximation 207 14.2.4 Endowment insurances 208 14.3 The stochastic approach to annuity benefits 209 14.3.1 Discrete annuities 209 14.3.2 Continuous annuities 212 *14.4 Deferred contracts 213 14.5 The stochastic approach to reserves 214 14.6 The stochastic approach to premiums 215 14.6.1 The equivalence principle 215 14.6.2 Percentile premiums 216 14.6.3 Aggregate premiums 217 14.6.4 General premium principles 220 14.7 The variance of r L 220 14.8 Standard notation and terminology 223 14.9 Notes and references 223 14.10 Exercises 224 15 Simplifications under level benefit contracts 228 15.1 Introduction 228 15.2 Variance calculations in the continuous case 228 15.2.1 Insurances 228 15.2.2 Annuities 229 15.2.3 Prospective losses 229 15.2.4 Using equivalence principle premiums 229 15.3 Variance calculations in the discrete case 230 15.4 Exact distributions 231 15.4.1 The distribution of ¯Z 231 15.4.2 The distribution of ¯Y 231 15.4.3 The distribution of L 232 15.4.4 The case where T is exponentially distributed 232 15.5 Non-level benefit examples 233 15.5.1 Term insurance 233 15.5.2 Deferred insurance 234 15.5.3 An annual premium policy 234 15.6 Exercises 235 16 The minimum failure time 238 16.1 Introduction 238 16.2 Joint distributions 238 16.3 The distribution of T 240 16.3.1 The general case 240 16.3.2 The independent case 240