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Variable annuities are very profitable financial products that pose unique challenges in risk prediction. Metamodeling techniques are popular due to the significant saving in computation time. However, the current metamodeling techniques still have a low valuation accuracy. One key difficulty is the selection of a small number of contracts that optimally represent the whole portfolio. In this paper, we propose a novel and highly effective method for selecting representative contracts. At the center of this method is a deep neighbor embedding that supports robust clustering of the contracts in a portfolio. The embedding is a low-dimensional representation that respects similarities among contracts in both contract-specific features and their historical performance, achieved through abstract representation in a deep neural network. Empirical results show that the proposed model achieves significant improvement in valuation accuracy, often 10 times or more accurate compared with the popular Kriging-based model.
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This work was supported by the International Cooperation Project of Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No. Y7Z0511101, and Guangxi Key Laboratory of Trusted Software (No KX201528).
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Cheng, X., Luo, W., Gan, G., Li, G. (2019). Deep Neighbor Embedding for Evaluation of Large Portfolios of Variable Annuities. In: Douligeris, C., Karagiannis, D., Apostolou, D. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29551-6_42
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