Handbook of Asset and Liability Management: Applications and Case Studies

by Stavros A. Zenios, William T. Ziemba

Overview

The Handbooks in Finance are intended to be a definitive source for comprehensive and accessible information in the field of finance. Each individual volume in the series presents an accurate self-contained survey of a sub-field of finance, suitable for use by finance and economics professors and lecturers, professional researchers, graduate students and as a teaching supplement.

It is fitting that the series Handbooks in Finance devotes a handbook to Asset and Liability Management. Volume 2 focuses on applications and case studies in asset and liability management.

The growth in knowledge about practical asset and liability modeling has followed the popularity of these models in diverse business settings. This volume portrays ALM in practice, in contrast to Volume 1, which addresses the theories and methodologies behind these models. In original articles practitioners and scholars describe and analyze models used in banking, insurance, money management, individual investor financial planning, pension funds, and social security. They put the traditional purpose of ALM, to control interest rate and liquidity risks, into rich and broad-minded frameworks. Readers interested in other business settings will find their discussions of financial institutions both instructive and revealing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444528025
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/08/2007
Series:	Handbooks in Finance , #2
Pages:	684
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

ALM in banking
Dynamic financial analysis for multinational insurance companies
Stochastic Programming Models for Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation - a study from Norwegian life insurance
Designing and management of unit-linked life insurance contracts with guarantees
The PROMETEIA Model for Managing Insurance Policies with Guarantees
Integrated risk control using stochastic programming ALM models for money management
Asset-Liability Management for Individual Investors
A Scenario approach of ALM
The Russell Yasuda, InnoALM and related models for pensions, insurance companies and high net worth individuals
Dynamic Asset & Liability Management for Swiss Pension Funds
Joined-Up Pensions Policy in the UK: An Asset-Liability Model for Simultaneously Determining the Asset Allocation and Contribution Rate
ALM issues in social security

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

An accurate, self-contained, survey detailing the latest findings in Asset and Liability Management

Editorial Reviews

A decade on, this two volume handbook is destined to replace its predecessor 'Worldwide Asset and Liability Modeling' as the standard reference work in the field.” —M.A.H. Dempster
University of Cambridge

“This second volume of the 'Handbook of Asset and Liability Management' provides a fascinating and extensive view of how the Operations Research and Mathematical Finance tools, described in the first volume, can be exploited profitably by pension funds (including the government Social Security program), insurance companies, banks, major and individual investors. It might almost be unreasonable to be involved in portfolio management, the design of insurance policies or setting up a pension fund without a serious reading of this compendium.” —Roger J-B Wets
University of California, Davis

"Once again the editors have put together a volume that both practitioners and academics can appreciate. This volume has the technical depth for all and the practical breadth to make it a popular resource." —David Hobson Myers
Lehigh University

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