... between the reference population of the hedging instrument and the population of members of a pension plan, or the beneficiaries of an annuity portfolio, determines a significant heterogeneity causing the so-called basis risk. In particular, it is shown that if insurers use financial instruments based...

... hedging model in futures markets. The authors further relax the statistical-independence assumption between the spot price and basis risk. Findings – The authors show that the investors are, on average, quite risk averse. The authors find that a one unit increase in the price volatility reduces...

...Michael T. Norton; Calum Turvey; Daniel Osgood Purpose The purpose of this paper to develop an empirical methodology for managing spatial basis risk in weather index insurance by studying the fundamental causes for differences in weather risk between distributed locations. Design/methodology...

... point out key characteristics of ILWs important to investor and cedent, including transaction costs, moral hazard, basis risk, counterparty risk, industry loss index, and regulation. Next, the authors present and discuss the adequacy of actuarial and financial approaches for pricing ILWs, as well...