Asset and liability management in insurance firms: A biased-randomised approach combining heuristics with monte-carlo simulation
Asset and liability management in insurance firms: A biased-randomised approach combining heuristics with monte-carlo simulation
The management of assets and liabilities is of critical importance for insurance companies and banks. Complex decisions need to be made regarding how to assign assets to liabilities such in a way that the overall benefit is maximised over a multi-period horizon. At the same time, the risk of not being able to cover the liabilities at any given period must be kept under a certain threshold level. This optimisation problem is known in the literature as the asset and liability management (ALM) problem. In this work, we propose a biased-randomised algorithm to solve a real-life instance of the ALM problem. Firstly, we outline a greedy heuristic. Secondly, we transform it into a probabilistic algorithm by employing Monte-Carlo simulation and biased-randomisation techniques. According to our computational tests, the probabilistic algorithm is able to generate, in short computing times, solutions that outperform by far the ones currently practised in the sector.
Asset and liability management, Biased randomised algorithm, Heuristics, Monte carlo
405-414
Operational Research Society
Nieto, Armando
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Juan, Angel A.
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Bayliss, Christopher
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Kizys, Renatas
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22 March 2021
Nieto, Armando
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Juan, Angel A.
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Bayliss, Christopher
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Kizys, Renatas
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Nieto, Armando, Juan, Angel A., Bayliss, Christopher and Kizys, Renatas
(2021)
Asset and liability management in insurance firms: A biased-randomised approach combining heuristics with monte-carlo simulation.
Fakhimi, Masoud, Boness, Tom and Robertson, Duncan
(eds.)
In Operational Research Society 10th Simulation Workshop, SW 2021 - Proceedings.
Operational Research Society.
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(doi:10.36819/SW21.044).
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Abstract
The management of assets and liabilities is of critical importance for insurance companies and banks. Complex decisions need to be made regarding how to assign assets to liabilities such in a way that the overall benefit is maximised over a multi-period horizon. At the same time, the risk of not being able to cover the liabilities at any given period must be kept under a certain threshold level. This optimisation problem is known in the literature as the asset and liability management (ALM) problem. In this work, we propose a biased-randomised algorithm to solve a real-life instance of the ALM problem. Firstly, we outline a greedy heuristic. Secondly, we transform it into a probabilistic algorithm by employing Monte-Carlo simulation and biased-randomisation techniques. According to our computational tests, the probabilistic algorithm is able to generate, in short computing times, solutions that outperform by far the ones currently practised in the sector.
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Published date: 22 March 2021
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This work has been partially funded by the agreement between the Divina Pastora Seguros and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
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10th Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop, SW 2021, , Virtual, Online, 2021-03-22 - 2021-03-26
Keywords:
Asset and liability management, Biased randomised algorithm, Heuristics, Monte carlo
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Local EPrints ID: 449945
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/449945
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Author:
Armando Nieto
Author:
Angel A. Juan
Editor:
Masoud Fakhimi
Editor:
Tom Boness
Editor:
Duncan Robertson
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