Longevity/Mortality Risk Measurement and Management in Actuarial Sciences
A special issue of Risks (ISSN 2227-9091).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 9191
Special Issue Editors
Interests: longevity/mortality risk measurement and management; mortality modeling and forecasting; longevity annuity; weather derivatives
Interests: actuarial science; longevity risk; mortality risk
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Uncertainty in future mortality imposes significant financial strain on the insurance and pension sector. Longevity risk measurement and management have received increasing interest from annuity providers and pension sponsors, who suffer under stronger-than-expected mortality improvements. The recent COVID-19 outbreak, which impacts both short-term and long-term mortality, presents new challenges to insurers in mortality forecasting and mortality risk management.
This Special Issue of Risks is devoted to the measurement and management of longevity and mortality risks. We invite papers presenting original research on related topics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Mortality shocks due to pandemics and natural disasters;
- Stochastic mortality models;
- Spatio-temporal mortality dependences;
- Multi-population mortality models;
- Longevity risk measurement and management;
- Application of machine learning techniques in mortality- and longevity-related research;
- Securitization of longevity/mortality risks;
- Retirement product innovation, such as reverse mortgage, pooled annuity, and index-linked annuity;
- Mortality modelling and forecasting by cause of death;
- Educational, socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic differentials in longevity/mortality.
Prof. Dr. Rui Zhou
Dr. Yanxin Liu
Dr. Kenneth Zhou
Guest Editors
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