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| author | Li, Wenyuan Lyu, Haoqi |
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| contents | This paper investigates the valuation of variable annuity contracts with an early surrender option under non-Markovian models. Moreover, policyholders are provided with guaranteed minimum maturity and death benefits to protect against the downside risk. Unlike the existing literature, our variable annuity account value is linked to two non-Markovian processes: an equity index modeled by a rough Heston model and a force of mortality following a Volterra-type stochastic model. In this case, the early surrender feature introduces an optimal stopping problem where continuation values depend on the entire path history, rendering traditional numerical methods infeasible. We develop a deep signature Least Squares Monte Carlo approach to learn optimal surrender strategies on a discretized time grid. To mitigate the curse of dimensionality arising from the path-dependent model, we use truncated rough-path signatures to encode the historical paths and approximate the continuation values using a neural network. Numerically, we find that the fair fee increases with the Hurst parameters of both the stock volatility and the force of mortality. Finally, a convergence proof is provided to further support the stability of our method. |
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| spellingShingle | Valuation of variable annuities under the Volterra mortality and rough Heston models Li, Wenyuan Lyu, Haoqi Computational Finance This paper investigates the valuation of variable annuity contracts with an early surrender option under non-Markovian models. Moreover, policyholders are provided with guaranteed minimum maturity and death benefits to protect against the downside risk. Unlike the existing literature, our variable annuity account value is linked to two non-Markovian processes: an equity index modeled by a rough Heston model and a force of mortality following a Volterra-type stochastic model. In this case, the early surrender feature introduces an optimal stopping problem where continuation values depend on the entire path history, rendering traditional numerical methods infeasible. We develop a deep signature Least Squares Monte Carlo approach to learn optimal surrender strategies on a discretized time grid. To mitigate the curse of dimensionality arising from the path-dependent model, we use truncated rough-path signatures to encode the historical paths and approximate the continuation values using a neural network. Numerically, we find that the fair fee increases with the Hurst parameters of both the stock volatility and the force of mortality. Finally, a convergence proof is provided to further support the stability of our method. |
| title | Valuation of variable annuities under the Volterra mortality and rough Heston models |
| topic | Computational Finance |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00472 |