Actuarial finance [electronic resource] : derivatives, quantitative models and risk management / Mathieu Boudreault and Jean-François Renaud Universit́e du Quebec a Montreal, Canada.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Boudreault, Mathieu (Author)
Renaud, Jean-François, 1976- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2019.
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Variant Title:
Actuarial Finance - Derivatives, Quantitative Models and Risk Management
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The actuary and its environment
  • Financial markets and their securities
  • Forwards and futures
  • Swaps
  • Options
  • Engineering basic options
  • Engineering advanced derivatives
  • Equity-linked insurance and annuities
  • One-period binomial tree model
  • Two-period binomial tree model
  • Multi-period binomial tree model
  • Further topics in the binomial tree model
  • Market incompleteness and one-period trinomial tree models
  • Brownian motion
  • Introduction to stochastic calculus
  • Introduction to the black-scholes-merton model
  • Rigorous derivations of the black-scholes formula
  • Applications and extensions of the black-scholes formula
  • Simulation methods
  • Hedging strategies in practice.