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Analysis of the Variable Life Insurance Based on Log-Normal Distribution

Received: 20 August 2015     Accepted: 28 August 2015     Published: 2 September 2015
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Abstract

Fixed rate, premiums and insurance coverage for policyholders and insurance companies in traditional life insurance have increased certain risks. For this reason, we consider studying variable life insurance. The biggest difference between the two insurance is that whether the actual death benefit of volatility is changeable. This paper studied the change of the premium when the premium changes in proportion to the death benefit and when it is fixed. And, it put forward a way to pay the death benefit, named “pay off increasing amount insurance”. Finally, this paper simulated the mean and variance of the death benefit using Monte Carlo method, and also compared the advantage and disadvantages of each approach.

Published in International Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijsd.20150101.12
Page(s) 5-11
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Keywords

Variable Life Insurance, The Actual Death Benefit, Change in Proportion, Fixed Premium, Pay off Increasing Amount Insurance, Monte Carlo Method

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  • Central China Normal University, the Institute of Mathematical and Statistics, Wu Han, China

  • Central China Normal University, the Institute of Mathematical and Statistics, Wu Han, China

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