Investment Management for
Insurers
David F. Babbel
Frank J. Fabozzi
Copyright: 1999
Investment Management for
Insurers details all phases of the investment management process for insurers as well as
fixed income instruments and derivatives and state-of-the-art analytical tools for valuing
securities and measuring risk. Complete coverage includes: a general overview of issues,
fixed income products, valuation, measuring and controlling interest rate risk, and equity
portfolio management.
Table of Contents
SECTION I: GENERAL ISSUES.
1. Risk Management by
Insurers: An Analysis of the Process (D. Babbel and A. Saneomero).
2. Components of Insurance
Firm Value, and the Present Value of Liabilities (D. Babbel).
3. A Performance Measurement
System for Insurers (D. Babbel, et al.).
4. Asset Allocation for
Property and Casualty Insurers (B. Tran).
SECTION II: FIXED INCOME
PRODUCTS.
5. Treasuries, Agency
Debentures, Corporates, MTNs, Municipals, and Eurobonds (F. Fabozzi).
6. Mortgage-Backed Securities
and Asset-Backed Securities (F. Fabozzi).
7. Interest Rate Derivatives
(F. Fabozzi).
8. Credit Derivatives (M.
Anson).
9. Catastrophe-Liked
Securities (S. Ganapati, et al.).
SECTION III: VALUATION.
10. Interest Rate Models (O.
Cheyette).
11. The Four Faces of an
Interest Rate Model (P. Fitton and J. McNatt).
12. Valuing Path-Dependent
Securities: Some Numerical Examples (C. Howard).
13. Problems Encountered in
Valuing Interest Rate Derivatives (Y. Pierides).
14. Speeding Up the Valuation
Process (F. Albert, et al.).
SECTION IV: MEASURING AND
CONTROLLING INTEREST RATE RISK.
15. Fixed Income Risk (R.
Kahn).
16. Term Structure Factor
Models (R. Kuberek).
17. Effective and Ineffective
Duration Measures for Life Insurers (D. Babbel).
18. Yield Curve Risk
Management (R. Reitano).
19. Hedging Corporate
Securities with Treasury and Derivatives Instruments (S. Ramamurthy).
20. Valuation and Portfolio
Risk Management with Mortgage-Backed Securities (S. Zenios).
21. Hedging Mortgage
Passthrough Securities (K. Dunn and R. Sella).
22. Portfolio Risk Management
(H. Fong and O. Vasicek).
23. Measuring and Forecasting
Yield Volatility (F. Fabozzi and W. Lee).
SECTION V: EQUITY PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT.
24. Investment Management: An
Architecture for the Equity Market (B. Jacobs and K. Levy).
25. Investment Analysis:
Profiting from a complex Equity Market (B. Jacobs and K. Levy).
26. The Use of Derivatives in
Managing Equity Portfolios (R. Clarke, et al.).
Index.
570 pages