Chapter VI: Financial Mathematics in Life Insurance

Asmussen, Søren; Steffensen, Mogens

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Søren Asmussen¹⁶ &
Mogens Steffensen¹⁷

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In this chapter, we study products offered by insurance companies that, unlike the pure insurance policies in Chap. V, gives investors both insurance and investment under a single integrated plan.

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Also called equity-linked

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Department of Mathematics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Søren Asmussen
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Asmussen, S., Steffensen, M. (2020). Chapter VI: Financial Mathematics in Life Insurance. In: Risk and Insurance. Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling, vol 96. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35176-2_6

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