Conditional Moment Matching and Stratified Approximation for Pricing and Hedging Periodic-Premium Variable Annuities

Xiao Wei () and Xingchi Gu
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Xiao Wei: Central University of Finance and Economics
Xingchi Gu: Central University of Finance and Economics

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2024, vol. 26, issue 2, 1-25

Abstract: Abstract This paper extends the stratified approximation method using lognormal and gamma distributions - first introduced to price Asian options - to derive a close formula for pricing and hedging of periodic-premium variable annuities. We used the moment matching method to fit the lognormal and gamma distributions to the conditional distribution of the integral of the underlying asset on a time interval, given the terminal value of the underlying asset. The highly oscillating double integrals for computing an expectation about the integral of the underlying assets are simplified down to a single integral, which greatly reduces the computation time for pricing periodic-premium variable annuities. This method allowed us to construct a different delta hedging strategy, other than the one used in the existing literature for embedded option of periodic-premium variable annuities. Compared with the existing research on pricing periodic-premium variable annuities, we obtained more accurate results using the stratified approximation method than the numerical method of partial differential equations, and found that the underpricing problem with periodic-premium variable annuities is even more severe than previously stated in existing literature. We further investigated the price gap between single-premium and periodic-premium variable annuities in a variety of settings, and examined the impact that the model and product parameters had on the price gap. The robustness and accuracy of the proposed method is tested by numerical examples.

Keywords: Conditional moment matching; Stratified approximation; Variable annuity; Periodic premium; Price gap; C600; C630; G220 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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