The LifeInsureR package provides a full-featured framework to model classical life insurance contracts (non-unit linked). Mathematically, a general life insurance contracts can be defined using death and survival (and disability) benefit vectors to define the cash flows and calculate all premiums and reserves recursively. This powerful approach is taken by the LifeInsureR package to provide the most flexible contract modelling framework in R.

1 General Overview of the Concepts

An insurance contract is described by three different objects;

InsuranceContract: The object describing the actual contract with all contract-specific parameters (age, maturity, sum insured, etc.).
InsuranceTarif: The general (contract-independent) description of the insurance product (benefits, present values / reserves, premium calculation, premium waivers, surrender value, reserve calculation, premium decomposition). It does not store any values (only tarif-provided default values for the insurance contract), but provides all calculation functions. The implementation is based on a general approach using cash flows (depending on the type of insurance). Once the cash flows (survival, death and guaranteed) are defined for all time steps, all further calculations are idential for all different kinds of life insurance.
ProfitParticipation: For contracts with profit sharing mechanisms, this object describes the profit participation (like the InsuranceTarif object describes the guaranteed payments) and us used by the InsuranceContract object.

The tariff and the profit scheme are purely descriptional and their creation does not trigger any calculations. However, when one creates a contract for a given tariff, the following steps are done to calculate all values relevant for the contract:

Extract the transition probabilities (mortality)
Set up all cash flow time series (premiums, guaranteed payments, survival payments, death payments, disease payments, charged cost cash flows)
Calculate all present values for each time for all the cash flows (benefits, premiums and costs)
Use the actuarial equivalence principle and the present values at time $t=0$ to calculate the premium of the contract
Express all cash flows also in absolute (monetary) terms
Calculate the reserves at every moment
Calculate the premium decomposition
Apply the (optional) profit participation scheme with the given profit scenario
Optionally apply contract changes (premiums waivers, dynamic) and further profit scenarios

All steps after the cash flow setup are implemented in a very generic way, as the cash flows fully determine an insurance contract and as soon as the cash flows are fixed, the valuation and reserve calculation can be expressed in terms of expected present values of the cash flows only.

While this might at first seem a bit complicated, it allows for very generic implementations of life insurance products and contracts.

2 A simple example: Term life insurance

To understand how the package implements life insurance contracts, let us look at a simple example:

2.1 Product description

Term Life Insurance

Public product name ‘DeathPlus - Short Term Life Insurance’, Internal ID ‘L71-U’
Only death benefits, no survival benefits
Mortality table: Austrian 2010/12 census table unisex (mixed 65:35 from the male:female tables)
Guaranteed interest rate: 0.5%
Default contract duration: 5 years (to keep the example short)
Regular premium payments (constant premiums) during the whole contract

Costs:

Aquisition costs: 5% of the total premium sum
Administration cost: 1% of the sum insured per year (both during premium payments as well as for paid-up contracts)
Unit costs: 10 Euro per year (fixed) during premium payments
Tax: 4% insurance tax (default)

Surrender Value:

Reserve minus 10% surrender penalty, also applied on premium waiver

2.2 Tariff implementation (InsuranceTarif)

library(magrittr)
library(MortalityTables)
library(LifeInsureR)
mortalityTables.load("Austria_Census")

Tarif.L71U = InsuranceTarif$new(
    name = "L71-U",
    type = "wholelife",
    tarif = "DeathPlus - Short Term Life Insurance",
    desc = "Term Life insurance (5 years) with constant sum insured and regular premiums",
    policyPeriod = 5, premiumPeriod = 5,  # premiumPeriod not needed, defaults to maturity

    mortalityTable = mortalityTable.mixed(
      table1 = mort.AT.census.2011.male, weight1 = 0.65, 
      table2 = mort.AT.census.2011.female, weight2 = 0.35
    ),
    i = 0.005, 
    tax = 0.04, 
    costs = initializeCosts(alpha = 0.05, gamma = 0.01, gamma.paidUp = 0.01, unitcosts = 10),
    surrenderValueCalculation = function(surrenderReserve, params, values) { 
      surrenderReserve * 0.9 
    }
);

2.3 Creating a contract

With the above product / tariff definition, it is now easy to instantiate one particular contract for this tariff. All we need to do is pass the tariff and the corresponding contract-specific information (mainly age, sum insured and contract closing) to the InsuranceContract object:

contract.L71U  = InsuranceContract$new(
  Tarif.L71U, 
  age = 35, 
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-08-18"), 
  sumInsured = 100000);

Just creating the contract will already calculate all cash flows, present values, premiums, reserves, etc. for the whole contract period. They can be accessed through the contract.L71U$Values list.

A full list of all possible arguments can be found in the section [All possible parameters and their default values].

Once the contract is created, all values can be accessed like this:

contract.L71U$Values$premiums

	x
unit.net	0.0008083
unit.Zillmer	0.0008083
unit.gross	0.0113840
net	80.8263742
Zillmer	80.8263742
gross	1138.4019890
unitcost	0.0000000
written_yearly	1194.3380685
written_beforetax	1148.4019890
tax	45.9360796
written	1194.3380685
additional_capital	0.0000000

contract.L71U$Values$reserves

Table continues below
	SumInsured	net	Zillmer	adequate	contractual	conversion	reduction
0	1e+05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1	1e+05	10.91	10.91	-217.41	10.91	10.91	10.91
2	1e+05	17.13	17.13	-154.60	17.13	17.13	17.13
3	1e+05	18.02	18.02	-96.80	18.02	18.02	18.02
4	1e+05	12.67	12.67	-44.90	12.67	12.67	12.67
5	1e+05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

	PremiumsPaid	Surrender	PremiumFreeSumInsured
0	1138.40	0.00	0.00
1	2276.80	9.82	228.43
2	3415.21	15.42	475.74
3	4553.61	16.22	746.15
4	5692.01	11.40	1042.97
5	5692.01	0.00	0.00

Looking back at the definition of the tariff, the only spot where the type of insurance actually came in was the type argument of the InsuranceTarif definition. This is one of the most important flags and is central to correct implementation of a tarif. On the other hand, all it does is to cause different vectors of survival, death and guaranteed cash flows. Once the cash flows are determined, the insurance contract and tariff does not need the insurance type any more.

In our term life example, the insurance contract’s unit cash flows are 1 for death benefits (both when premiums are paid and when the contract is paid-up) and for premiums in advance. All other cash flows (guaranteed, survival or disease cash flows) are zero. Similarly, the cost structure described above and implemented by the LifeInsureR::initializeCosts() function defines all cost cash flows, which are the starting point for all further calculations (only relevant columns of the data.frame are shown):

contract.L71U$Values$cashFlows

	premiums_advance	death_SumInsured	death_PremiumFree
0	1	1	1
1	1	1	1
2	1	1	1
3	1	1	1
4	1	1	1
5	0	0	0

contract.L71U$Values$cashFlowsCosts[,,,"survival"]

,,“SumInsured”

	gamma	gamma_nopremiums
0	0.01	0.01
1	0.01	0.01
2	0.01	0.01
3	0.01	0.01
4	0.01	0.01
5	0.00	0.00

,,“SumPremiums”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0.05	0	0	0	0	0
1	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
3	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
4	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
5	0.00	0	0	0	0	0

,,“GrossPremium”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

,,“NetPremium”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

,,“Benefits”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

,,“Constant”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	10
1	0	0	0	0	0	10
2	0	0	0	0	0	10
3	0	0	0	0	0	10
4	0	0	0	0	0	10
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

,,“Reserve”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

Once these unit cash flows are set, all insurance contracts are handled identically. First, present values of each of the cash flows are calculated, from which the premiums can be calculated by the equivalence principle.

contract.L71U$Values$presentValues

	premiums	death_SumInsured	death_PremiumFree
0	4.94307	0.00400	0.00400
1	3.96558	0.00331	0.00331
2	2.98265	0.00258	0.00258
3	1.99416	0.00179	0.00179
4	1.00000	0.00093	0.00093
5	0.00000	0.00000	0.00000

contract.L71U$Values$presentValuesCosts

,,“SumInsured”

	gamma	gamma_nopremiums
0	0.0494	0.0494
1	0.0397	0.0397
2	0.0298	0.0298
3	0.0199	0.0199
4	0.0100	0.0100
5	0.0000	0.0000

,,“SumPremiums”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0.05	0	0	0	0	0
1	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
3	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
4	0.00	0	0	0	0	0
5	0.00	0	0	0	0	0

,,“GrossPremium”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

,,“NetPremium”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

,,“Benefits”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

,,“Constant”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	49.4307
1	0	0	0	0	0	39.6558
2	0	0	0	0	0	29.8265
3	0	0	0	0	0	19.9416
4	0	0	0	0	0	10.0000
5	0	0	0	0	0	0.0000

,,“Reserve”

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums	unitcosts
0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	0	0	0	0	0	0

contract.L71U$Values$premiums

	.
unit.net	0.00
unit.Zillmer	0.00
unit.gross	0.01
net	80.83
Zillmer	80.83
gross	1138.40
unitcost	0.00
written_yearly	1194.34
written_beforetax	1148.40
tax	45.94
written	1194.34
additional_capital	0.00

The actual calculation of the premiums has to be in the order gross premium, Zillmer premiuem, then net premium. The reason for this particular order is that some tariffs have a gross premium refund in case of death. So to calculate the net premium, the gross premium is required.

The premiums allow the unit cash flows and present values to be converted to monetary terms (fields contract.L71U$Values$absCashFlows and contract.L71U$Values$absPresentValues). Also, the reserves of the contract can be calculated.

contract.L71U$Values$reserves

Table continues below
	SumInsured	net	Zillmer	adequate	contractual	conversion	reduction
0	1e+05	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	1e+05	11	11	-217	11	11	11
2	1e+05	17	17	-155	17	17	17
3	1e+05	18	18	-97	18	18	18
4	1e+05	13	13	-45	13	13	13
5	1e+05	0	0	0	0	0	0

	PremiumsPaid	Surrender	PremiumFreeSumInsured
0	1138	0.0	0
1	2277	9.8	228
2	3415	15.4	476
3	4554	16.2	746
4	5692	11.4	1043
5	5692	0.0	0

Also, the premium composition into costs, risk premium, savings premium and other components is possible.

contract.L71U$Values$premiumComposition

charged	tax	gross	gamma	alpha	alpha.noZillmer	net	risk	savings
1183.94	45.54	1138.4	1000	57.58	57.58	80.83	69.97	10.85
1183.94	45.54	1138.4	1000	57.58	57.58	80.83	74.69	6.14
1183.94	45.54	1138.4	1000	57.58	57.58	80.83	80.03	0.80
1183.94	45.54	1138.4	1000	57.58	57.58	80.83	86.24	-5.41
1183.94	45.54	1138.4	1000	57.58	57.58	80.83	93.50	-12.67
0.00	0.00	0.0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

As we see, the whole history and future of the contract is calculated as soon as it is created. It is, however, also possible to modify a contract later on, e.g. by stopping premium payments and converting it to a paid-up contract.

contract.L71U.prf = contract.L71U$premiumWaiver(t = 3)
contract.L71U.prf$Values$reserves

Table continues below
	SumInsured	net	Zillmer	adequate	gamma	contractual	conversion	reduction
0	100000.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1	100000.00	10.91	10.91	-217.41	0.00	10.91	10.91	10.91
2	100000.00	17.13	17.13	-154.60	0.00	17.13	17.13	17.13
3	746.15	1.34	1.34	16.22	14.88	16.22	16.22	16.22
4	746.15	0.70	0.70	8.16	7.46	8.16	8.16	8.16
5	746.15	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

	PremiumsPaid	Surrender	PremiumFreeSumInsured
0	1138.40	0.00	0.00
1	2276.80	9.82	228.43
2	3415.21	15.42	475.74
3	3415.21	16.22	746.15
4	3415.21	8.16	746.15
5	3415.21	0.00	0.00

2.4 Creating tables with various parameters

When prototyping a new product or creating marketing material, it is often needed to create tables of premiums, reserves, benefits or surrender values for different parameters (e.g. different ages, maturities and sums insured for the marketing department, or different guaranteed interest rates, mortality tables or costs for the product development group).

This can be easily done by the functions contractGridPremium() or contractGrid(). They take one argument axes, which gives the parameters for the axes of the table (more than two dimensions are possible!), while all other parameters are passed unchanged to InsuranceContract$new().

First, let us create a grid of premiums for different ages and maturities (for sum insured 100,000 Euro):

grd = contractGridPremium(
  axes = list(age = seq(20, 80, 5), policyPeriod = seq(10, 40, 5)),
  tarif = Tarif.L71U, 
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-08-18"), 
  sumInsured = 100000
)
grd

age	policyPeriod
	10	15	20	25	30	35	40
20	1226.97	1288.25	1369.67	1494.03	1704.47	2049.68	2595.39
25	1227.50	1311.22	1439.08	1655.45	2010.37	2571.46	3403.05
30	1256.61	1388.06	1610.50	1975.39	2552.22	3407.16	4549.65
35	1329.56	1558.39	1933.75	2527.14	3406.63	4581.92	6162.21
40	1480.91	1867.64	2478.99	3385.10	4595.97	6224.08	8581.45
45	1749.39	2381.32	3317.94	4569.58	6252.52	8689.26	12082.95
50	2179.00	3153.01	4454.64	6204.78	8738.83	12268.04	16160.61
55	2819.25	4186.05	6023.83	8684.78	12390.71	16478.20	19388.53
60	3654.46	5613.83	8450.81	12401.91	16759.81	19862.68	21019.86
65	4824.56	7911.21	12210.02	16951.43	20327.37	21586.39	21799.89
70	6942.90	11749.48	17050.94	20825.64	22233.37	22472.09	22472.09
75	10834.54	17077.83	21523.12	23180.94	23462.07	23462.07	23462.07
80	16763.64	22608.06	24787.67	25157.28	25157.28	25157.28	25157.28

One can also pass more than two dimensions to the axes:

grd = contractGridPremium(
  axes = list(age = seq(20, 80, 10), policyPeriod = seq(10, 40, 10), sumInsured = c(10000, 50000, 100000)),
  tarif = Tarif.L71U, 
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-08-18")
)
grd

, , sumInsured=10000

age	policyPeriod
	10	20	30	40
20	132.06	146.33	179.81	268.90
30	135.02	170.41	264.58	464.33
40	157.45	257.26	468.96	867.51
50	227.26	454.82	883.24	1625.42
60	374.81	854.44	1685.34	2111.35
70	703.65	1714.45	2232.70	2256.57
80	1685.72	2488.13	2525.09	2525.09

, , sumInsured=50000

age	policyPeriod
	10	20	30	40
20	618.69	690.04	857.43	1302.90
30	633.51	810.45	1281.31	2280.03
40	745.66	1244.70	2303.18	4295.93
50	1094.70	2232.52	4374.62	8085.51
60	1832.43	4230.60	8385.11	10515.13
70	3476.65	8530.67	11121.88	11241.24
80	8387.02	12399.04	12583.84	12583.84

, , sumInsured=1e+05

age	policyPeriod
	10	20	30	40
20	1226.97	1369.67	1704.47	2595.39
30	1256.61	1610.50	2552.22	4549.65
40	1480.91	2478.99	4595.97	8581.45
50	2179.00	4454.64	8738.83	16160.61
60	3654.46	8450.81	16759.81	21019.86
70	6942.90	17050.94	22233.37	22472.09
80	16763.64	24787.67	25157.28	25157.28

One can use any of the parameters of the InsuranceContract$new() call in the axes argument, even the tarif or mortalityTable parameters. This means that one can create tables comparing different tariffs, or showing the effect of different life tables.

In the following example, we use the tarif Tarif.L71U, but instead of the unisex table (mixed 65:35 from male:female tables), we use the male mortality tables of the Austrian census from 1870 to 2011 (with a contract period of 10 years fixed, and varying ages):

grd = contractGridPremium(
  axes = list(mortalityTable = mort.AT.census["m", ], age = seq(20, 80, 10)),
  tarif = Tarif.L71U, 
  sumInsured = 100000,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-08-18")
) 
grd

	20	30	40	50	60	70	80
ÖVSt 1868/71 M	2196.2	2266.9	2729.5	3633.2	6045.2	11993.8	25050.0
ÖVSt 1879/82 M	2125.8	2260.8	2656.7	3579.8	5660.1	11385.1	24373.1
ÖVSt 1889/92 M	1979.6	2108.8	2584.7	3435.2	5619.3	11166.0	23959.4
ÖVSt 1899/1902 M	1811.4	1985.5	2468.2	3382.7	5441.2	10630.8	21946.0
ÖVSt 1909/12 M	1741.3	1931.3	2396.9	3345.0	5399.1	10374.0	21291.8
ÖVSt 1930/33 M	1540.6	1646.7	1980.9	2768.4	4569.0	9010.1	19923.5
ÖVSt 1949/51 M	1358.5	1391.3	1614.9	2433.8	4123.8	8124.9	17960.0
ÖVSt 1959/61 M	1334.4	1353.6	1513.6	2232.3	4128.9	7980.8	17180.7
ÖVSt 1970/72 M	1336.7	1338.4	1580.6	2178.1	3933.2	8459.4	17202.5
ÖVSt 1980/82 M	1299.0	1293.1	1516.3	2169.5	3467.3	7198.6	16340.6
ÖVSt 1990/92 M	1248.9	1257.3	1435.3	1887.9	3135.3	5839.9	13587.2
ÖVSt 2000/02 M	1216.4	1209.3	1350.8	1763.0	2552.7	4845.2	11393.3
ÖVSt 2010/12 M	1189.9	1186.7	1273.1	1606.2	2434.8	3968.0	9476.2
ÖVSt 2020/22 M	1164.1	1181.6	1257.5	1495.1	2259.3	4058.9	8680.2

3 All possible parameters

All possible parameters of an insurance contract are stored in sub-lists of a a structure InsuranceContract.Parameters. If not provided by the call to InsuranceContract$new(), the values will be taken from either the InsuranceTariff’s default parameters, the ProfitParticipation’s default parameters or the global defaults in the InsuranceContract.ParameterDefault. The cascade or parameters is (from top to bottom):

explicit parameters passed to InsuranceContract$addProfitScenario() (applies only for the added profit scenario)
explicit parameters passed to InsuranceContract$new() or InsuranceContract$clone()
parameters set with the ProfitParticipation
parameters set with the InsuranceTarif
Default values set in InsuranceContract.ParameterDefaults

In addition to the parameters listed below, the InsuranceContract$new() constructor function takes the following parameters

str(InsuranceContract.ParameterDefaults)
#> List of 9
#>  $ ContractData       :List of 28
#>   ..$ id                 : chr "Hauptvertrag"
#>   ..$ sumInsured         : NULL
#>   ..$ premium            : NULL
#>   ..$ birthDate          : NULL
#>   ..$ YOB                : NULL
#>   ..$ age                : NULL
#>   ..$ technicalAge       : NULL
#>   ..$ ageDifferences     : NULL
#>   ..$ sex                : chr "unisex"
#>   ..$ policyPeriod       : num 25
#>   ..$ premiumPeriod      : NULL
#>   ..$ deferralPeriod     : num 0
#>   ..$ guaranteedPeriod   : num 0
#>   ..$ contractClosing    : NULL
#>   ..$ initialCapital     : num 0
#>   ..$ blockStart         : num 0
#>   ..$ premiumPayments    : chr "in advance"
#>   ..$ benefitPayments    : chr "in advance"
#>   ..$ premiumFrequency   : num 1
#>   ..$ benefitFrequency   : num 1
#>   ..$ premiumRefund      : num 0
#>   ..$ premiumRefundPeriod:function (params, values)  
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "srcref")= 'srcref' int [1:8] 163 31 165 1 31 1 165 167
#>   .. .. ..- attr(*, "srcfile")=Classes 'srcfilealias', 'srcfile' <environment: 0x000001ac6dc0f948> 
#>   ..$ premiumIncrease    : num 1
#>   ..$ annuityIncrease    : num 1
#>   ..$ deathBenefit       : num 1
#>   ..$ benefitParameter   : NULL
#>   ..$ costWaiver         : num 0
#>   ..$ attributes         : list()
#>  $ ContractState      :List of 3
#>   ..$ premiumWaiver   : logi FALSE
#>   ..$ surrenderPenalty: logi TRUE
#>   ..$ alphaRefunded   : logi FALSE
#>  $ ActuarialBases     :List of 11
#>   ..$ mortalityTable               : NULL
#>   ..$ invalidityTable              : NULL
#>   ..$ invalidityEndsContract       : logi TRUE
#>   ..$ i                            : num 0
#>   ..$ balanceSheetDate             : Date[1:1], format: "1900-12-31"
#>   ..$ balanceSheetMethod           : chr "30/360"
#>   ..$ unearnedPremiumsMethod       : NULL
#>   ..$ surrenderValueCalculation    : NULL
#>   ..$ premiumWaiverValueCalculation: NULL
#>   ..$ premiumFrequencyOrder        :function (params, ...)  
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "srcref")= 'srcref' int [1:8] 614 33 614 120 33 120 1573 1573
#>   .. .. ..- attr(*, "srcfile")=Classes 'srcfilealias', 'srcfile' <environment: 0x000001ac6dbe8a18> 
#>   ..$ benefitFrequencyOrder        :function (params, ...)  
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "srcref")= 'srcref' int [1:8] 615 33 615 120 33 120 1574 1574
#>   .. .. ..- attr(*, "srcfile")=Classes 'srcfilealias', 'srcfile' <environment: 0x000001ac6dbe8a18> 
#>  $ Costs              : num [1:6, 1:7, 1:7] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>   ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 3
#>   .. ..$ type     : chr [1:6] "alpha" "Zillmer" "beta" "gamma" ...
#>   .. ..$ basis    : chr [1:7] "SumInsured" "SumPremiums" "GrossPremium" "NetPremium" ...
#>   .. ..$ frequency: chr [1:7] "once" "PremiumPeriod" "PremiumFree" "PolicyPeriod" ...
#>  $ minCosts           : NULL
#>  $ Loadings           :List of 15
#>   ..$ ongoingAlphaGrossPremium: num 0
#>   ..$ tax                     : num 0.04
#>   ..$ unitcosts               : num 0
#>   ..$ security                : num 0
#>   ..$ noMedicalExam           : num 0
#>   ..$ noMedicalExamRelative   : num 0
#>   ..$ sumRebate               : num 0
#>   ..$ extraRebate             : num 0
#>   ..$ premiumRebate           : num 0
#>   ..$ partnerRebate           : num 0
#>   ..$ extraChargeGrossPremium : num 0
#>   ..$ benefitFrequencyLoading : NULL
#>   ..$ premiumFrequencyLoading : NULL
#>   ..$ alphaRefundPeriod       : num 5
#>   ..$ commissionPeriod        : num 5
#>  $ Features           :List of 8
#>   ..$ zillmering                    : logi TRUE
#>   ..$ betaGammaInZillmer            : logi FALSE
#>   ..$ alphaRefundLinear             : logi TRUE
#>   ..$ useUnearnedPremiums           :function (params, values)  
#>   .. ..- attr(*, "srcref")= 'srcref' int [1:8] 128 28 128 93 28 93 130 130
#>   .. .. ..- attr(*, "srcfile")=Classes 'srcfilealias', 'srcfile' <environment: 0x000001ac6dc0f948> 
#>   ..$ surrenderIncludesCostsReserves: logi TRUE
#>   ..$ unitcostsInGross              : logi FALSE
#>   ..$ absPremiumRefund              : num 0
#>   ..$ alphaCostsCommission          : chr "actual"
#>  $ ProfitParticipation:List of 16
#>   ..$ advanceProfitParticipation            : num 0
#>   ..$ advanceProfitParticipationInclUnitCost: num 0
#>   ..$ waitingPeriod                         : NULL
#>   ..$ guaranteedInterest                    : NULL
#>   ..$ interestProfitRate                    : NULL
#>   ..$ totalInterest                         : NULL
#>   ..$ mortalityProfitRate                   : NULL
#>   ..$ expenseProfitRate                     : NULL
#>   ..$ sumProfitRate                         : NULL
#>   ..$ terminalBonusRate                     : NULL
#>   ..$ terminalBonusFundRate                 : NULL
#>   ..$ profitParticipationScheme             : NULL
#>   ..$ profitComponents                      : NULL
#>   ..$ profitClass                           : NULL
#>   ..$ profitRates                           : NULL
#>   ..$ scenarios                             : list()
#>  $ Hooks              :List of 10
#>   ..$ adjustCashFlows          : NULL
#>   ..$ adjustCashFlowsCosts     : NULL
#>   ..$ adjustCosts              : NULL
#>   ..$ adjustMinCosts           : NULL
#>   ..$ adjustPresentValues      : NULL
#>   ..$ adjustPresentValuesCosts : NULL
#>   ..$ adjustPremiumCoefficients: NULL
#>   ..$ adjustPremiums           : NULL
#>   ..$ adjustPVForReserves      : NULL
#>   ..$ premiumRebateCalculation : NULL

# pandoc.listRK(InsuranceContract.ParameterDefaults)

4 Tarif and Contract Specification

An insurance contract is modelled by the abstract product specification (InsuranceTarif class) and the concrete (individualized) InsuranceContract.

The InsuranceTarif object describes the product in abstract terms, holds default parameters and provides all calculation functions for cash flows, present values, premiums and reserves (provided the contract’s actual Parameters). It does not, however, hold contract-specific data.
The InsuranceContract object holds the individual contract data (like age, contract closing date, sum insured, etc.) that override the tariff’s defaults. It also holds a pointer to the insurance tariff and provides the general logic to calculate all parts of an insurance contract by calling the corresponding functions of the tariff.

The insurance contract and the underlying insurance tariff have the same possible parameters in its constructors: The InsuranceTarif uses them to define defaults for contracts that use the tariff, while the parameters passed to the contract either provide the individually required data like age, sum insured or maturity, or they can override the defaults provided by the tariff. In theory, one could even create a contract with an empty underlying tariff and provide all tariff-specific parameters also in the contract’s new call.

4.1 Creating the tariff

The InsuranceTarif class provides a way to define an abstract insurance product. The most important parameters to be passed in the InsuranceTarif$new() call are:

General settings for the Tariff
`name`, `tarif`, `desc`	IDs and human-readable descriptions of the insurance product. They are just used as labels and array keys, but do not influence the calculations.
`type`	the most important parameter, defining the type of life insurance product (endowment, pure endowment, annuity, whole life insurance, dread-disease insurance, etc.)
Actuarial Bases for the Tariff
`mortalityTable`	a `MortalityTable` Object (package “MortalityTables”), providing the transition probabilities (typically death probabilities, but potentially also morbidity in dread-disease insurances)
`i`	Guaranteed interest rate
`costs`, `unitcosts`	passed a data structure for all cost parameters (see below)
`premiumFrequencyLoading`	surcharge for premium payments more often than yearly (as a named list)
`premiumRefund`	how much of the (gross) premium paid is returned upon death (often provided e.g. in deferred annuities or pure endowments with no fixed death benefit)
`tax`	insurance tax
Benefit calculation
`surrenderValueCalculation`	can be passed a hook function that calculates the surrender value given the current reserves at each time step

A typical call looks like the following for a pure endowment with gross premium refund upon death and a linearly decreasing surrender penalty:

Tarif.PureEnd = InsuranceTarif$new(
  name = "Example Tariff - Pure Endowment",
  type = "pureendowment",
  tarif = "PE1-RP",
  desc = "A pure endowment with regular premiums (standard tariff)",

  mortalityTable = mort.AT.census.2011.unisex,
  i = 0.005,
  # Costs: 4% acquisition, where 2.5% are zillmered, 5\% of each premium as beta costs, 
  #        1%o administration costs of the sum insured over the whole contract period
  costs = initializeCosts(alpha = 0.04, Zillmer = 0.025, beta = 0.05, gamma.contract = 0.001, gamma.paidUp = 0.001),
  unitcosts = 10,

  # Yearly premiums get no surcharge, monthly premiums add +4%
  premiumFrequencyLoading = list("1" = 0, "12" = 0.04),
  premiumRefund = 1,  # Full gross premium refund upon death
  tax = 0.04,         # 4% insurance tas

  surrenderValueCalculation = function(surrenderReserve, params, values) {
    n = params$ContractData$policyPeriod
    # Surrender Penalty is 10% at the beginning and decreases linearly to 0%
    surrenderReserve * (0.9 + 0.1 * (0:n)/n)
  }
)

Many parameters do not need to be given explicitly, but instead use sensible defaults (like the premiumPeriod, which by default equals the whole contract period, i.e. regular premium payments over the whole contract duration).

To create a similar tariff with some changes, one can call the createModification method of the InsuranceTarif clas, which takes as arguments all insurance parameters that should be changed for the new tarif.

To create a single-premium version of the pure endowment shown above, one can simply use a call like:

Tarif.PureEnd.SP = Tarif.PureEnd$createModification(
  name = "Example Tariff - Pure Endowment (SP)",
  tarif = "PE1-SP",
  desc = "A pure endowment with single premiums",
  premiumPeriod = 1
)

4.1.1 Sample tariffs for the most common life insurance types

For the examples in the remainder of this vignette, we can create some more example tariffs covering the most common types of life insurance.

General definitions for all tariffs

library(MortalityTables)
mortalityTables.load("Austria_Census")
mortalityTables.load("Austria_Annuities_AVOe2005R")
  # Costs: 4% acquisition, where 2.5% are zillmered, 5\% of each premium as beta costs, 
  #        1%o acquisition costs of the sum insured over the whole contract period
example.Costs = initializeCosts(
  alpha = 0.04, Zillmer = 0.025, 
  beta = 0.05, 
  gamma.contract = 0.001, gamma.paidUp = 0.001
)
example.Surrender = function(surrenderReserve, params, values) {
    n = params$ContractData$policyPeriod
    # Surrender Penalty is 10% at the beginning and decreases linearly to 0%
    surrenderReserve * (0.9 + 0.1 * (0:n)/n)
}

Endowment

Tarif.Endowment = InsuranceTarif$new(
  name = "Example Tariff - Endowment",
  type = "endowment",
  tarif = "EN1",
  desc = "An endowment with regular premiums",

  mortalityTable = mort.AT.census.2011.unisex,
  i = 0.005,
  costs = example.Costs,
  unitcosts = 10,
  tax = 0.04,         # 4% insurance tax
  surrenderValueCalculation = example.Surrender
)

Whole / Term Life Insurance

Tarif.Life = InsuranceTarif$new(
  name = "Example Tariff - Whole/Term Life",
  type = "wholelife",
  tarif = "Life1",
  desc = "A whole or term life insurance with regular premiums",

  mortalityTable = mort.AT.census.2011.unisex,
  i = 0.005,
  costs = example.Costs,
  unitcosts = 10,
  tax = 0.04,         # 4% insurance tax
  surrenderValueCalculation = example.Surrender
)

Immediate Annuity (single premium)

Tarif.ImmAnnuity = InsuranceTarif$new(
  name = "Example Tariff - Immediate Annuity",
  type = "annuity",
  tarif = "Ann1",
  desc = "An annuity with single-premium",
  premiumPeriod = 1,

  mortalityTable = AVOe2005R.unisex,
  i = 0.005,
  costs = example.Costs,
  tax = 0.04         # 4% insurance tax
)

Deferred Annuity

# Premium periods and deferral periods can also be given as a function of other
# contract parameters (like the age at contract inception, etc.)
Tarif.DefAnnuity = InsuranceTarif$new(
  name = "Example Tariff - Deferred Annuity",
  type = "annuity",
  tarif = "Life1",
  desc = "A deferred annuity (life-long payments start at age 65) with reg. premiums",

  policyPeriod = function(params, values) { 120 - params$ContractData$age},
  deferralPeriod = function(params, values) { 65 - params$ContractData$age},
  premiumPeriod = function(params, values) { 65 - params$ContractData$age},
    
  mortalityTable = AVOe2005R.unisex,
  i = 0.005,
  costs = example.Costs,
  tax = 0.04,         # 4% insurance tax
  surrenderValueCalculation = example.Surrender
)

Dread-Disease Insurance

# An example dread-disease tariff, morbidity is assumed linearly increasing with age
ddTable = mortalityTable.period(name = "Linear dread-disease table", 
                                ages = 0:100, deathProbs = 0:100/500)
Tarif.DreadDisease = InsuranceTarif$new(
  name = "Example Tariff - Dread-Disease",
  type = "dread-disease",
  tarif = "DD1",
  desc = "A dread disease insurance with a lump-sum payment upon diagnosis",

  sumInsured = 50000,
  mortalityTable = mort.AT.census.2011.unisex,
  invalidityTable = ddTable,
  i = 0.005,
  costs = example.Costs,
  unitcosts = 10,
  tax = 0.04,         # 4% insurance tax
  surrenderValueCalculation = example.Surrender
)

4.2 Creating a contract

While the tariff describes the general product features, the contract object holds the data of a concrete contract. All insurance parameters (see section [All possible parameters and their default values]) can be given to override tarif defaults.

However, the most important and often used parameters are:

Information about insuree
`age`	the age of the insured person at contract start
`YOB`	the year of birth of the insured person (`age`, `YOB` and `contractClosing` are redundant, at most two need to be given). YOB is only relevant for cohort mortality tables. For period life tables (which are independent of the birth year of the person), this parameter is not needed.
`sex`	relevant for sex-specific life tables (common in the past)
Contract details
`sumInsured`	the benefit when the insured event happens. Typically the lump sum for whole life insurances or endowments, or the (yearly) payment for annuities
`policyPeriod`	the duration of the whole contract
`premiumPeriod`	how long premiums are paid (1 for single-premiumcontracts, equal to `policyPeriod` (default) for regular premiums)
`premiumFrequency`	how often premiums are paid within a year (e.g.1 for yearly premiums, 4 for quarterly, 12 for monthly)
`contractClosing`	the starting date of the contract
`deathBenefit`	gives the factor of death benefit relative to the sum insured / survival benefit of endowments (1 means equal death and survival probabilities), can also be a function with non-constant values over time
`noMedicalExam`, `noMedicalExamRelative`, `sumRebate`, `extraRebate`, `premiumRebate`	various types of rebates or charges. They can either be defined in general functional form in the tariff to apply to all contracts, or given individually for each contract. For the details, when each of these rebates are applied, check the formula reference document.

For the pure endowments defined above, a typical contract would be created like this:

contract.PureEnd = InsuranceContract$new(
    Tarif.PureEnd,
    age = 50, policyPeriod = 20, 
    premiumFrequency = 12,
    sumInsured = 100000,
    contractClosing = as.Date("2020-07-01")
  )

contract.PureEnd$Values$premiums

	x
unit.net	0.0479
unit.Zillmer	0.0494
unit.gross	0.0539
net	4786.7874
Zillmer	4935.5223
gross	5394.4876
unitcost	0.0000
written_yearly	5845.4938
written_beforetax	468.3889
tax	18.7356
written	487.1245
additional_capital	0.0000

contract.PureEnd$Values$premiumComposition

Table continues below
t	charged	tax	loading.frequency	gross	gamma	beta	alpha	alpha.noZillmer	alpha.Zillmer
0	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
1	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
2	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
3	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
4	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
5	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
6	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
7	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
8	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
9	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
10	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
11	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
12	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
13	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
14	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
15	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
16	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
17	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
18	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
19	5834.68	224.41	215.78	5394.49	100	269.72	237.98	89.24	148.73
20	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

Zillmer	net	risk	savings
4935.52	4786.79	1.64	4785.14
4935.52	4786.79	3.57	4783.22
4935.52	4786.79	5.81	4780.98
4935.52	4786.79	8.39	4778.40
4935.52	4786.79	11.34	4775.45
4935.52	4786.79	14.72	4772.07
4935.52	4786.79	18.59	4768.20
4935.52	4786.79	22.98	4763.80
4935.52	4786.79	27.93	4758.85
4935.52	4786.79	33.46	4753.32
4935.52	4786.79	39.55	4747.23
4935.52	4786.79	46.17	4740.61
4935.52	4786.79	53.22	4733.57
4935.52	4786.79	60.74	4726.05
4935.52	4786.79	68.65	4718.14
4935.52	4786.79	76.93	4709.86
4935.52	4786.79	85.61	4701.18
4935.52	4786.79	95.05	4691.74
4935.52	4786.79	105.52	4681.27
4935.52	4786.79	117.11	4669.68
0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

Due to the full premium refund in case of death, there is only very little biometric risk involved. If the premium refund is not included in the contract, then we have a negative biometric risk over the whole period (i.e. negative risk premium, because upon death the existing reserves is shared with the collective). The premium refund can be overridden directly in the contract call:

contract.PureEnd.NoRefund = InsuranceContract$new(
    Tarif.PureEnd,
    age = 50, policyPeriod = 20, 
    premiumFrequency = 12,
    sumInsured = 100000,
    contractClosing = as.Date("2020-07-01"),
    premiumRefund = 0
  )

cbind(`With refund` = contract.PureEnd$Values$premiums, `Without refund` = contract.PureEnd.NoRefund$Values$premiums)

	With refund	Without refund
unit.net	0.05	0.04
unit.Zillmer	0.05	0.04
unit.gross	0.05	0.05
net	4786.79	4267.91
Zillmer	4935.52	4400.85
gross	5394.49	4821.70
unitcost	0.00	0.00
written_yearly	5845.49	5225.97
written_beforetax	468.39	418.75
tax	18.74	16.75
written	487.12	435.50
additional_capital	0.00	0.00

cbind(
  `Gross premium with refund` = contract.PureEnd$Values$premiumComposition[,"gross"],
  `Gross premium w/o refund` = contract.PureEnd.NoRefund$Values$premiumComposition[,"gross"],
  `Risk premium with refund` = contract.PureEnd$Values$premiumComposition[,"risk"],
  `Risk premium w/o refund` = contract.PureEnd.NoRefund$Values$premiumComposition[,"risk"]
)

t	Gross premium with refund	Gross premium w/o refund	Risk premium with refund	Risk premium w/o refund
0	5394.49	4821.7	1.64	-12.08
1	5394.49	4821.7	3.57	-26.87
2	5394.49	4821.7	5.81	-44.75
3	5394.49	4821.7	8.39	-66.18
4	5394.49	4821.7	11.34	-91.73
5	5394.49	4821.7	14.72	-122.10
6	5394.49	4821.7	18.59	-158.24
7	5394.49	4821.7	22.98	-200.94
8	5394.49	4821.7	27.93	-250.93
9	5394.49	4821.7	33.46	-309.03
10	5394.49	4821.7	39.55	-375.78
11	5394.49	4821.7	46.17	-451.60
12	5394.49	4821.7	53.22	-536.22
13	5394.49	4821.7	60.74	-630.84
14	5394.49	4821.7	68.65	-735.56
15	5394.49	4821.7	76.93	-851.06
16	5394.49	4821.7	85.61	-978.61
17	5394.49	4821.7	95.05	-1123.58
18	5394.49	4821.7	105.52	-1291.04
19	5394.49	4821.7	117.11	-1484.30
20	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.00

To create a single-premium contract, one can either use the single-premium tarif defined above, or simply pass premiumPeriod=1 to the call:

contract.PureEnd.SP1 = InsuranceContract$new(
    Tarif.PureEnd,
    age = 40, policyPeriod = 45, premiumPeriod = 1,
    sumInsured = 100000,
    contractClosing = as.Date("2020-07-01")
  )
contract.PureEnd.SP2 = InsuranceContract$new(
    Tarif.PureEnd.SP,
    age = 40, policyPeriod = 45, # premiumPeriod already set by tariff!
    sumInsured = 100000,
    contractClosing = as.Date("2020-07-01")
  )

all_equal(contract.PureEnd.SP1$Values$reserves, contract.PureEnd.SP2$Values$reserves)
#> Warning: `all_equal()` was deprecated in dplyr 1.1.0.
#> ℹ Please use `all.equal()` instead.
#> ℹ And manually order the rows/cols as needed
#> This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
#> Call `lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()` to see where this warning was
#> generated.
#> `y` must be a data frame.

4.3 Determining Sum Insured from the premium

By default, the insurance contract is created for a given sum insured and the premiums are calculated accordingly. Sometimes, the reverse is needed: The premium (either actuarial gross premium, written premium before or after taxes) is given and the corresponding sum insured should be determined automatically.

The InsuranceContract constructor / parameter set has an additional field premium to indicate the desired premium (written premium after tax by default) from which the sum insured is then calculated:

# Premium calculated from sumInsured
contract.End = InsuranceContract$new(
  Tarif.Endowment, age = 35, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-08-18"), 
  sumInsured = 10000);

# sumInsured derived from written premium
contract.End.premium = InsuranceContract$new(
  Tarif.Endowment, age = 35, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-08-18"), 
  premium = 1139.06);

contract.End.premiumBeforeTax = InsuranceContract$new(
  Tarif.Endowment, age = 35, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-08-18"), 
  premium = c(written_beforetax = 1095.25));

contract.End.premiumGross = InsuranceContract$new(
  Tarif.Endowment, age = 35, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-08-18"), 
  premium = c(gross = 1085.25));

#> # A tibble: 4 × 7
#>   Contract              net   Zillmer gross written_beforetax written sumInsured
#>   <chr>                 <chr> <chr>   <chr> <chr>             <chr>   <chr>     
#> 1 contract.End          976.… 1004.2… 1085… 1095.24887464624  1139.0… 10000     
#> 2 contract.End.premium  976.… 1004.2… 1085… 1095.25           1139.06 10000.010…
#> 3 contract.End.premium… 976.… 1004.2… 1085… 1095.25           1139.06 10000.010…
#> 4 contract.End.premium… 976.… 1004.2… 1085… 1095.25           1139.06 10000.010…

The final written premium can be directly passed as the premium argument. Other types of premium must be passed as a named number (i.e. a one-element vector with name “gross”, “written_beforetax” or “written”).

If a premium is prescribed, a sumInsured must not be given. If both are given, the sumInsured is used and the prescribed premium is silently ignored.

The are cases, when the sumInsured cannot be derived from a prescribed premium. One relevant case is when a premium rebate depends on the sum insured, since in this case we need the sumInsured to calculate the rebate and thus the premium. All rebates, add-ons and other parameters will temporarily use a sumInsured=1 during the calculation of the actual sumInsured!

4.4 Providing additional capital at contract inception

Often, when a contract is changed significantly, this is modelled as a totally new contract, with the existing reserve provided as additional one-time payment for the follow-up contract. This is different from a single-premium contract, because the new contract can have regular premiums, just the existing reserve is used as the initial reserve of the new contract.

The package provides the argument initialCapital to provide initial capital that is also included in the calculation of the premium of the contract.

# Contract with initial capital of 5.000 EUR
contract.Endow.initialCapital = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  initialCapital = 5000,
  age = 40, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
# For comparison: Contract without initial capital of 5.000 EUR
contract.Endow = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  age = 40, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)

Comparing the reserves, one can clearly see the initial capital used as initial reserve:

data.frame(
  `Premium with initialCapital`= contract.Endow.initialCapital$Values$premiumComposition[,"charged"], 
  `Premium without initialCapital`= contract.Endow$Values$premiumComposition[,"charged"], 
  `Res.with initialCapital`= contract.Endow.initialCapital$Values$reserves[,"contractual"], 
  `Res.without initialCapital`= contract.Endow$Values$reserves[,"contractual"]
)
#>    Premium.with.initialCapital Premium.without.initialCapital
#> 0                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 1                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 2                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 3                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 4                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 5                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 6                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 7                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 8                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 9                     542.9533                       1131.394
#> 10                      0.0000                          0.000
#>    Res.with.initialCapital Res.without.initialCapital
#> 0                 4869.482                  -271.9696
#> 1                 5369.821                   729.7741
#> 2                 5872.714                  1736.6324
#> 3                 6378.207                  2748.6945
#> 4                 6886.377                  3766.1190
#> 5                 7397.334                  4789.1206
#> 6                 7911.217                  5817.9828
#> 7                 8428.202                  6853.0547
#> 8                 8948.495                  7894.7497
#> 9                 9472.336                  8943.5471
#> 10               10000.000                 10000.0000

4.5 Premium Waivers

After a while, many customers do not want to pay premiums for the contract any more and convert the contract to a paid-up contract. The unit benefit cash flows from that moment on stay the same, but the sum insured is adjusted, so that the existing reserve is able to cover all future benefits and costs. Furthermore, paid-up contracts typically have differen costs / loadings. Additionally, the surrender penalty is usually applied to the reserve before the conversion.

Waiving premiums and recalculating the sum insured is very easy, one just calls the method InsuranceContract$premiumWaiver(t = ..) on the existing contract.

contract.PureEnd.NoRefund.Prf = contract.PureEnd.NoRefund$clone()$premiumWaiver(t = 7)
contract.PureEnd.NoRefund.Prf$Values$reserves

Table continues below
	SumInsured	net	Zillmer	adequate	gamma	contractual	conversion	alphaRefund	reduction
0	100000.00	0.00	-2410.85	0.00	0.00	-2410.85	-2410.85	2410.85	0.00
1	100000.00	4301.39	2005.61	628.14	0.00	2005.61	2005.61	1928.68	3934.29
2	100000.00	8639.14	6458.68	5150.40	0.00	6458.68	6458.68	1446.51	7905.19
3	100000.00	13016.56	10951.67	9712.73	0.00	10951.67	10951.67	964.34	11916.01
4	100000.00	17437.40	15488.36	14318.93	0.00	15488.36	15488.36	482.17	15970.53
5	100000.00	21906.03	20073.13	18973.39	0.00	20073.13	20073.13	0.00	20073.13
6	100000.00	26427.51	24711.09	23681.23	0.00	24711.09	24711.09	0.00	24711.09
7	32905.04	27100.86	27100.86	0.00	395.92	27496.79	27496.79	0.00	27496.79
8	32905.04	27391.51	27391.51	2276.49	366.91	27758.42	27758.42	0.00	27758.42
9	32905.04	27701.50	27701.50	4580.08	337.79	28039.28	28039.28	0.00	28039.28
10	32905.04	28032.72	28032.72	6914.11	308.53	28341.25	28341.25	0.00	28341.25
11	32905.04	28387.01	28387.01	9282.30	279.11	28666.11	28666.11	0.00	28666.11
12	32905.04	28766.05	28766.05	11688.65	249.49	29015.54	29015.54	0.00	29015.54
13	32905.04	29171.17	29171.17	14137.32	219.63	29390.80	29390.80	0.00	29390.80
14	32905.04	29604.05	29604.05	16632.88	189.50	29793.55	29793.55	0.00	29793.55
15	32905.04	30066.25	30066.25	19180.06	159.04	30225.29	30225.29	0.00	30225.29
16	32905.04	30559.40	30559.40	21783.93	128.20	30687.60	30687.60	0.00	30687.60
17	32905.04	31085.51	31085.51	24450.07	96.94	31182.44	31182.44	0.00	31182.44
18	32905.04	31648.31	31648.31	27185.86	65.19	31713.50	31713.50	0.00	31713.50
19	32905.04	32252.93	32252.93	30000.59	32.91	32285.83	32285.83	0.00	32285.83
20	32905.04	32905.04	32905.04	32905.04	0.00	32905.04	32905.04	0.00	32905.04

	PremiumsPaid	Surrender	PremiumFreeSumInsured
0	4821.7	0.00	0.00
1	9643.4	3560.53	4465.70
2	14465.1	7193.72	8960.81
3	19286.8	10903.15	13483.97
4	24108.5	14692.88	18033.69
5	28930.2	18567.64	22608.41
6	33751.9	22981.31	27747.88
7	33751.9	27496.79	32905.04
8	33751.9	27758.42	32905.04
9	33751.9	28039.28	32905.04
10	33751.9	28341.25	32905.04
11	33751.9	28666.11	32905.04
12	33751.9	29015.54	32905.04
13	33751.9	29390.80	32905.04
14	33751.9	29793.55	32905.04
15	33751.9	30225.29	32905.04
16	33751.9	30687.60	32905.04
17	33751.9	31182.44	32905.04
18	33751.9	31713.50	32905.04
19	33751.9	32285.83	32905.04
20	33751.9	32905.04	32905.04

Notice that the contract changes are made directly to the contract (“reference semantics”). This is different from the typical behavior of R, where any change to e.g. a data.frame leaves the original data.frame intact and instead returns a modified copy.

5 Calculation Approach

5.1 Valuation

The calculation of all contract values is controlled by the function InsuranceContract$calculateContract() (using methods of the InsuranceTarif object) and follows the following logic:

First the contingent (unit) cash flows and the transition probbilities are determined.
The actuarial equivalence principle states that at time of inception, the (net and gross) premium must be determined in a way that the present value of the future benefits and costs minus the present value of the future premiums must be equal, i.e. in expectation the future premiums ove the whole lifetime of the contract will exactly cover the benefits and costs. Similarly, at all later time steps, the difference between these two present values needs to be reserved (i.e. has already been paid by the customer by previous premiums).
This allows the premiums to be calculated by first calculating the present values for all of the benefit and costs cash flow vectors.
The formulas to calculate the gross, Zillmer and net premiums involve simple linear combinations of these present values, so the coefficients of these formulas are determined next.
With the coefficients of the premium formulas calculated, all premiums can be calculated (first the gross premium, because due to potential gross premium refunds in case of death, the formula for the net premium requires the gross premium, which the formula for the gross premium involves no other type of premuim).
With premiums determined, all unit cash flows and unit present values can now be expressed in monetary terms / as absolute cash flows (i.e. the actual Euro-amount that flows rather than a percentage).
As described above, the difference between the present values of premiums and present values of benefits and costs is defined as the required amount of reserves, so the reserves (net, gross, administration cost, balance sheet) and all values derived from them (i.e. surrender value, sum insured in case of premium waiver, etc.) are calculated.
The decomposition of the premium into parts dedicated to specific purposes (tax, rebates, net premium, gross premium, Zillmer premium, cost components, risk premium, savings premium, etc.) can be done once the reserves are ready (since e.g. the savings premium is defined as the difference of discounted reserves at times $t$ and $t+1$).
If the contract has (discretionary or obligatory) profit sharingB mechanisms included, the corresponding [ProfitParticipation] object can calculate that profit sharing amounts, once all guaranteed values are calculated. This can also be triggered manually (with custom profit sharing rates) by calling the methods InsuranceContract$profitScenario() or InsuranceContract$addProfitScenario().

5.2 Cash Flows

An insurance contract is basically defined by the (unit) cash flows it produces: Together with the transition probabilities (mortalityTable parameter) the present values can be calculated, from which the premiums follow and finally the reserves and a potential profit sharing.

For example, a term life insurance with regular premiums would have the following cash flows:

premium cash flows: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, …
survival cash flows: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
guaranteed cash flows: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
death benefit cash flows: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, …

A single-premium term life insurance would look similar, except for the premiums:

premium cash flows: 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, …

A pure endowment has no death benefits, but a survival benefit of 1 at the maturity of the contract:

premium cash flows: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, …
survival cash flows: 0, 0, …, 0, 1
guaranteed cash flows: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
death benefit cash flows: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …

An endowment has also death benefits during the contract duration:

premium cash flows: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, …
survival cash flows: 0, 0, …, 0, 1
guaranteed cash flows: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
death benefit cash flows: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, …

A (deferred) annuityB has premium cash flows only during the deferral peroid and only survival cash flows during the annuity payment phase. Often, in case of death during the deferral period, all premiums paid are refunded as a death benefit.:

premium cash flows: 1, 1, …, 1, 0, 0, 0, …
survival cash flows: 0, 0, …, 0, 1, 1, 1,…
guaranteed cash flows: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …
death benefit cash flows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …, 0, 0, …

A terme-fix insurance has a guaranteed payment at maturity, even if the insured has already died. The premiums, however, are only paid until death (which is not reflected in the contingent cash flows, but rather in the transition probabilities):

premium cash flows: 1, 1, 1, 1, …, 1
survival cash flows: 0, 0, 0, 0, …, 0
guaranteed cash flows: 0, 0, 0, …, 0, 1
death benefit cash flows: 0, 0, 0, 0, …, 0

6 Cost structure

Costs of an insurance contracts can have various forms and bases.

The InsuranceContract class provides all common types of costs:

Type of cost: Acquisition (Alpha-costs), Zillmer, Beta-costs, Administration (Gamma-costs during / after premiums and for paid-up contracts)
Basis for costs: SumInsured, Premium Sum, Gross Premium, Net Premium, Reserve, constant costs
Duration of costs: Once (up-front), during premium payments, after premium payments, during whole contract

The cost structure generated by initializeCosts() is a three-dimensional array with the above-mentioned coordinates:

initializeCosts() %>% dimnames
#> $type
#> [1] "alpha"            "Zillmer"          "beta"             "gamma"           
#> [5] "gamma_nopremiums" "unitcosts"       
#> 
#> $basis
#> [1] "SumInsured"   "SumPremiums"  "GrossPremium" "NetPremium"   "Benefits"    
#> [6] "Constant"     "Reserve"     
#> 
#> $frequency
#> [1] "once"             "PremiumPeriod"    "PremiumFree"      "PolicyPeriod"    
#> [5] "AfterDeath"       "FullContract"     "CommissionPeriod"

The most common types of cost can be directly given in the call to initializeCosts(), but for some uncommon combinations, one can directly fill any of the fields in the three-dimensional array manually.

initializeCosts(alpha = 0.04, Zillmer = 0.025, beta = 0.05, gamma.contract = 0.001)

# the above is the short form of:
costs.Bsp = initializeCosts()
costs.Bsp[["alpha", "SumPremiums", "once"]] = 0.04
costs.Bsp[["Zillmer", "SumPremiums", "once"]] = 0.025 # German Zillmer maximum
costs.Bsp[["beta", "GrossPremium", "PremiumPeriod"]] = 0.05
costs.Bsp[["gamma", "SumInsured", "PolicyPeriod"]] = 0.001

These costs parameters are immediately converted to the corresponding cash flows when the contract is created. In the above example of a pure endowment (with premium waiver at time 7), the absolute cost cash flows are:

contract.PureEnd.NoRefund$Values$absCashFlows

	alpha	Zillmer	beta	gamma	gamma_nopremiums
0	3857.36	2410.85	241.09	100	100
1	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
2	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
3	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
4	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
5	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
6	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
7	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
8	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
9	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100
10	0.00	0.00	241.09	100	100

In addition to these standardized costs, which are included in the expense-loaded premium (sometimes also called the “(actuarial) gross premium”), there are certain loadings and rebates that are applied after the expense-loaded premium $BP_x$:

\[P_x = \left\{ (BP_x + oUZu - SuRa) \cdot VS \cdot (1-VwGew) + unitC\right\} \cdot \left(1-PrRa-VwGew_{StkK}-PartnerRa\right)\cdot \left(1+uz(k)\right) \cdot (1+tax)\]

with the following surcharges and rebates:

$oUZu$ … Surcharge for contracts without medical exam (parameter noMedicalExam)
$SuRa$ … Sum rebate (depending on the sum insured) (parameter sumRebate)
$VwGew$ … Advance profit participation (as premium rebate) (parameter advanceProfitParticipation)
$unitC$ … Unit costs per year (only during premium payments) (parameter unitcosts)
$PrRa=PrRa(BP)$ … Premium rebate (depending on premium amount) (parameter premiumRebate)
$VwGew_{StkK}$ … Advance profit participation (as premium rebate, on premium after unit costs) (parameter advanceProfitParticipationInclUnitCost)
$PartnerRa$ … Partner rebate on the premium (for multiple similar contracts) (parameter partnerRebate)
$uz(k)$ … Frequency charge for monthly/quarterly/half-yearly premium payments instead of yearly premiums (parameter premiumFrequencyLoading)
$tax$ … Insurance tax (0% in most countries, 4% or 11% in Austria) (parameter tax)

6.1 Frequency charges

Typically, an insurance premium is calculated with yearly premiums paid in advance. If premiums are paid more often per year (Parameter premiumFrequency or benefitFrequency set to a value larger than 1, typically 2 for half-yearly, 4 for quarterly, or 12 for monthly payments), part of the interest during the year is lost, as well as the premiums for the remainder of the year if the insured event happens. So usually there is some kind of extra charge included:

A frequency charge is added on the gross premium => Parameter premiumFrequencyLoading and benefitFrequencyLoading are set to a list with keys “1”, “2”, “4” and “12” and values that correspond to the extra charge (as a factor on the gross premium, i.e. a percentage).
The premium or benefit payments are calculated (approximately) as payments $k$-times per year using yearly death / incidence probabilities. This calculation is typically using some approximations in $k$ => Parameter premiumFrequencyOrder and benefitFrequencyOrder set to a value larger than 0.
Contracts with $k>1$ have higher cost loadings on the gross premium. => Parameter costs is implemented a function with signature $function(params, values)$, which accesses params$ContractData$premiumFrequency to return different expense rates for different premium payment frequencies.
If the guaranteed interest rate is 0%, the exact moment of payment during a year is irrelevant for the guaranteed values. However, if a yield larger than 0% is achieved, it is assigned to the contract via profit participation. So it makes sense adjust profit participation rates depending on the premium frequency rather than modifying the premium. The higher the profit participation, the higher the effect of the $k$-th yearly premium payments and the higher the modification of the rates can be. => Parameter getInterestProfitRate of the profit scheme can be implemented as a function that modifies the rate depending on the premium or benefit frequency (similar to the cost adjustment mentioned in the previous item).

Tarif.Life.FrequencyLoading = Tarif.Life$createModification(
  name = "Term life (frequency loading)",
  premiumFrequencyLoading = list("1" = 0.0, "2" = 0.01, "4" = 0.015, "12" = 0.02)
)
Tarif.Life.FrequencyApprox1 = Tarif.Life$createModification(
  name = "Term life (k-th yearly, approx. 1.Ord.)",
  premiumFrequencyOrder = 1
)
Tarif.Life.FrequencyApprox2 = Tarif.Life$createModification(
  name = "Term life (k-th yearly, approx. 2.Ord.)",
  premiumFrequencyOrder = 2
)
Tarif.Life.FrequencyApprox3 = Tarif.Life$createModification(
  name = "Term life (k-th yearly, exact)",
  premiumFrequencyOrder = Inf
)

Tarif.Life.FrequencyExpense = Tarif.Life$createModification(
  name = "Term life (modified gamma costs)",
  costs = function(params, values) {
    switch (toString(params$ContractData$premiumFrequency),
        "12" = initializeCosts(alpha = 0.04, Zillmer = 0.025,  beta = 0.05,  gamma.contract = 0.00127, gamma.paidUp = 0.001),
        "4" = initializeCosts(alpha = 0.04, Zillmer = 0.025,  beta = 0.05,  gamma.contract = 0.00119, gamma.paidUp = 0.001),
        "2" = initializeCosts(alpha = 0.04, Zillmer = 0.025,  beta = 0.05,  gamma.contract = 0.0011, gamma.paidUp = 0.001),
        initializeCosts(alpha = 0.04, Zillmer = 0.025,  beta = 0.05,  gamma.contract = 0.001, gamma.paidUp = 0.001)
    )
  }
)

Of course, the loadings and costs mentioned above are not necessarily mathematically derived to offset the interest effect of k-th yearly payments. Rather, they are often simply decided by the management. Thus, the three approaches implemented here can have quite different results:

contractGridPremium(
  axes = list(tarif = c(Tarif.Life.FrequencyLoading, Tarif.Life.FrequencyApprox1, 
                        Tarif.Life.FrequencyApprox2, Tarif.Life.FrequencyApprox3, 
                        Tarif.Life.FrequencyExpense),
              premiumFrequency = c(1, 2, 4, 12)),
  age = 40, policyDuration = 20,
  sumInsured = 100000,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
) %>% kableTable

tarif	premiumFrequency
	1	2	4	12
Term life (frequency loading)	593.6884	299.8126	150.6484	50.46351
Term life (k-th yearly, approx. 1.Ord.)	593.6884	297.5766	148.9718	49.69813
Term life (k-th yearly, approx. 2.Ord.)	593.6884	297.5761	148.9715	49.69802
Term life (k-th yearly, exact)	593.6884	297.5761	148.9715	49.69802
Term life (modified gamma costs)	593.6884	303.3269	154.4421	52.29163

6.2 Security loadings

Although most mortality tables and expense loadings already have a certain amount of security margins included, often a tariff (mostly protection products) adds an additional security loading directly to the net present value of the benedits.

This can be easily implemented using the parameter security:

contractGridPremium(
  axes = list(age = seq(30, 60, 10), security = 10*(0:5)/100),
  tarif = Tarif.Life,
  policyDuration = 20,
  sumInsured = 100000,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
) %>% kableTable(digits = 2)

age	security
	0	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.5
30	301.75	319.42	337.09	354.75	372.42	390.09
40	593.69	640.54	687.39	734.25	781.10	827.95
50	1217.61	1326.83	1436.05	1545.27	1654.49	1763.71
60	2848.94	3121.23	3393.52	3665.81	3938.10	4210.39

7 Creating premium and contract grids

When developing a new product or comparing different products, it is often required to create tables of premiums or reserves for a product/tarif where just some of the parameters (like age, sum insured or maturity) change.

For this purpose, this package provides two functions to create two- or higher-dimensional grids of contracts with each dimension representing one of the parameters varying.

contractGrid() creates a (two- or higher-dimensional) grid of InsuranceContract object
contractGridPremium() creates a grid of the premiums

The grid is defined by the axes argument to the contractGrid() call. This is a named list giving all parameters that should vary inside the grid. Any of the parameters of the InsuranceContract$new() constructor can be used in the axes.

For example, one can compare multiple tariffs or multiple varying pararameters.

Let us look at the pure endowment above, which we implemented as a single-premium variant and a variant with regular premiums, both of which have a potential (partial or full) premium refund in case of death. How do the premiums of these contracts compare and how do the premiums depend on the premium refund proportion?

grd = contractGridPremium(
  axes = list(tarif = c(Tarif.PureEnd, Tarif.Endowment, Tarif.PureEnd.SP), premiumRefund = c(0, 0.5, 1)),
  age = 50, policyPeriod = 20,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
grd

tarif	premiumRefund
	0	0.5	1
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment	511.8569	539.9719	571.4267
Example Tariff - Endowment	597.8353	630.7708	667.6189
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment (SP)	9062.9858	9792.9789	10651.0307

The default implementation of contractGridPremium returns the written premium, but one can also choose other types of premiums to display, or even other contract values (like reserves).

If one needs to investigate multiple values, it is better to first create a grid of insurance contract objects and store it, so that the call to contractGridPremium does not have to re-calculate the same contracts over and over again, extract just one premium and discard the whole contract.

grd = contractGrid(
  axes = list(tarif = c(Tarif.PureEnd, Tarif.Endowment, Tarif.PureEnd.SP), premiumRefund = c(0, 0.5, 1)),
  age = 50, policyPeriod = 20,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)

# Compare net premiums without loadings:
contractGridPremium(grd, premium = "net")

tarif	premiumRefund
	0	0.5	1
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment	426.7908	451.2802	478.6787
Example Tariff - Endowment	501.6818	530.3701	562.4663
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment (SP)	7739.6669	8378.4109	9129.2062

# Compare premium sums over the whole contract period (all contracts have the same sumInsured)
contractGridPremium(grd, .fun = function(c) {with(c$Values, 
     unitPremiumSum * premiums["written"])
})

tarif	premiumRefund
	0	0.5	1
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment	10237.14	10799.44	11428.53
Example Tariff - Endowment	11956.71	12615.42	13352.38
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment (SP)	9062.99	9792.98	10651.03

# Compare risk premiums at time t=10 (the 11th row of the premium decomposition)
contractGridPremium(grd, .fun = function(c) {c$Values$premiumComposition[11, "risk"]})

tarif	premiumRefund
	0	0.5	1
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment	-37.58	-17.98	3.96
Example Tariff - Endowment	35.11	58.07	83.76
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment (SP)	-64.75	-32.81	4.74

# Compare present value of all benefits and refunds (without costs) at time t=0
contractGridPremium(grd, .fun = function(c) {c$Values$absPresentValues[1, "benefitsAndRefund"]})

tarif	premiumRefund
	0	0.5	1
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment	7739.67	8183.77	8680.63
Example Tariff - Endowment	9097.78	9618.03	10200.08
Example Tariff - Pure Endowment (SP)	7739.67	8378.41	9129.21

Other useful examples of grid comparisons include e.g. the effect of the interest rate and the mortality table on the premiums:

grd = contractGridPremium(
  axes = list(mortalityTable = mort.AT.census["m", -(1:10)], i = c(0, 0.005, 0.01), age = c(30, 45, 60), policyPeriod = c(10, 20)),
  tarif = Tarif.Life,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01"),
  sumInsured = 10000
)
grd

age=30, policyPeriod=10

mortalityTable	i
	0	0.005	0.01
ÖVSt 1990/92 M	40.30	40.20	40.09
ÖVSt 2000/02 M	34.96	34.88	34.80
ÖVSt 2010/12 M	31.77	31.71	31.66
ÖVSt 2020/22 M	31.25	31.19	31.15

age=30, policyPeriod=20

mortalityTable	i
	0	0.005	0.01
ÖVSt 1990/92 M	53.07	52.58	52.11
ÖVSt 2000/02 M	45.12	44.74	44.37
ÖVSt 2010/12 M	38.72	38.46	38.21
ÖVSt 2020/22 M	36.53	36.33	36.14

age=45, policyPeriod=10

mortalityTable	i
	0	0.005	0.01
ÖVSt 1990/92 M	89.76	89.27	88.79
ÖVSt 2000/02 M	76.96	76.53	76.11
ÖVSt 2010/12 M	63.17	62.83	62.50
ÖVSt 2020/22 M	54.30	54.05	53.79

age=45, policyPeriod=20

mortalityTable	i
	0	0.005	0.01
ÖVSt 1990/92 M	139.45	137.45	135.48
ÖVSt 2000/02 M	111.57	110.15	108.76
ÖVSt 2010/12 M	98.07	96.70	95.36
ÖVSt 2020/22 M	84.95	83.75	82.58

age=60, policyPeriod=10

mortalityTable	i
	0	0.005	0.01
ÖVSt 1990/92 M	288.97	287.00	285.06
ÖVSt 2000/02 M	218.10	216.59	215.10
ÖVSt 2010/12 M	191.56	190.38	189.23
ÖVSt 2020/22 M	178.94	177.73	176.53

age=60, policyPeriod=20

mortalityTable	i
	0	0.005	0.01
ÖVSt 1990/92 M	440.61	433.80	427.15
ÖVSt 2000/02 M	351.92	346.15	340.51
ÖVSt 2010/12 M	291.32	286.96	282.70
ÖVSt 2020/22 M	284.30	279.82	275.45

8 Exporting contract data to Excel

The LifeInsureR package also provides a function to export a given contract to a spreadsheet in Excel format:

exportInsuranceContract.xlsx(contract, filename)

This function takes the contract and exports all data.frames in the contract’s contract$Values data list as separate tabs to a spreadsheet file. It also adds some nice formatting and additional markup. For contracts with multiple contract blocks (e.g. dynamic increases / sum increases or riders), the main contract and all its child blocks are exported as well.

The tab containing the premiums and the premium calculation coefficients even include the formulas, so one can in theory play around with the parameters to see how the premium changes.

If the contract has profit participation features and some profit scenarios have been added, they are exported as well.

Notice, however, that the Excel export is in general a static file containing the current state of the contract and all its values (cash flows, present values, premiums, reserves, profit participation, etc.) as well as the most important parameters and an overview of the history of the contract.

contract.exportExample = contract.PureEnd.NoRefund$clone()$
  addDynamics(t = 3, SumInsuredDelta = 10000)$
  addDynamics(t = 5, SumInsuredDelta = 15000)$
  addDynamics(t = 10, SumInsuredDelta = 15000)$
  addDynamics(t = 14, SumInsuredDelta = 10000)
exportInsuranceContract.xlsx(contract.exportExample, filename = "Example_PureEndowment_Dynamics.xlsx")

9 Creating examples for the Austrian Financial Market Authority

When introducing a new tariff, an Austrian insurance company has to submit a detailled mathematical description (so-called “Versicherungsmathematische Grundlagen”) of the tariff to the Financial Market Authority (FMA), which have to follow the regulation on actuarial bases for life insurance – LV-VMGV. The sections and contents of this document are strictly defined in the regulation, and in addition to the formulas of the tariff, an example contract has to be calculated with the following key parameters:

age 35, duration 30 years (15 years for protection tariffs)
sum insured 100 000 Euro / monthly annuity 1000 Euro for annuities
yearly premiums during the whole contract period (defereal period of 30 years for annuities)
intermediate values (reserves, etc.) have to be calculated at $t=10$.

Given a tariff and a derived contract (with the above key parameters), this package provides two functions to calculate and print / export the required values either to the console / screen or to a file:

showVmGlgExamples(contract, prf = 10, t = 10, t_prf = 12, file = "", ...)
exportInsuranceContractExample(contract, prf = 10, outdir = ".", basename=NULL, extraname = NULL, ...)

The function showVmGlgExamples calculates all required values for the actuarial bases document in the required order (including values after a premium waiver at the given time). If a filename is given, the output is exported to that text file, otherwise it is simply printed out in the R console:

VMGL.contract = InsuranceContract$new(
    Tarif.PureEnd,
    age = 35, policyPeriod = 30, 
    premiumFrequency = 1,
    sumInsured = 100000,
    contractClosing = as.Date("2020-07-01")
  )

showVmGlgExamples(VMGL.contract)
#> Tarif: Example Tariff - Pure Endowment
#> VS: 100000.00
#> Rechenzins: 0%, Sterbetafel: ÖVSt 2010/2012 U
#> 
#> Prämien:
#> ========
#> Nettoprämie:          3101.31
#> Zillmerprämie:        3198.88
#> Bruttoprämie:         3534.13
#> Vorgeschr.Pr.:        3685.90
#> 
#> Sparprämie (t=10):    3190.01
#> Risikoprämie (t=10):     8.87
#> 
#> Reserven:
#> =========
#> Prämienpflichtig (t=10):             30052.86
#> Pr.Frei (mangels Zahlung) (tprf=12): 24635.68
#> VwKostenreserve (t=10):                 -0.00
#> VwKostenreserve (Pr.Frei) (tprf=12):   496.91
#> 
#> Bilanzreserve (t=10.50):             31730.97
#> Prämienübertrag (BM= 7):              1772.07
#> 
#> Rückkauf und Prämienfreistellung:
#> =================================
#> Rückkaufsreserve (t=10):          30052.86
#> Rückkaufswert (t=10):             28049.33
#> Abschlusskostenrücktrag (t=10):       0.00
#> 
#> Rückkaufswert (Prf.) (t=12):      28049.33 (VS: 29726.53)
#> 
#> Prämienfreie VS (t=10):           29726.53

The exportInsuranceContractExample provides no new functionality, but combines the Excel export feature and the regulatory example together. For a given contract it will create three files:

Excel export of the contract
Excel export of the contract with a premium waiver applied at the given time
The regulatory example (with premium waiver at the same time as in the Excel export) in a text file

One can give a base name and an extra name to distinguish different calculations in the file names.

10 Contracts combining multiple contract layers / slices

In real life, an insurance contract is not merely signed initially and then left untouched until it expires or is surrendered. Rather, some contracts already have an automatic increase of the sumInsured or the premium (depending usually on some kind of observed consumer price index) included in the contract. Other contracts have additional biometric riders like an additional death or disability cover. Other contracts are extended after their expiration, using the existing reserve as a one-time payment (initialCapital) for the follow-up contract.

In all these cases, the original contract can be calculated as an InsuranceContract, but the additional dynamic increases, additional riders or extensions are mathematically calculated as separate contracts (potentiall using different tariffs / types of insurance), although most parameters are shared from the original main contract.

In addition to modelling one particular tariff, the LifeInsuranceContract class can also act as a wrapper to bundle multiple related contracts / contract slices together. The class provides several methods for this: * $addDynamics(t, NewSumInsured, SumInsuredDelta, id, ...): Include (at time t) a dynamic increase of premium or sumInsured, but with the same basic parameters (age, tariff, maturity, interest rate, etc.) as the main contract. The increase can be given either as the new total sumInsured or as the increase in the sumInsured caused by that one increase. Other parameters given as ... are passed on to the InsuranceContract$new constructor of the layer for the dynamic increase. This also means that one can potentially override all parameters for the increase, including the tariff or the interest rate. * $addExtension(t = NULL, policyPeriod, ...) After the original contracts maturity, append a follow-up contract (by default paid-up, i.e. no new premiums are paid) that uses the existing reserve as initial capital. By default, no further premiums are paid and the sumInsured is calculated from the existing reserve and the tariff of the extension. One can, however, also provide either a sumInsured or a premium of the contract extension. In that case, the premium or the sumInsured will be calculated, using the existing reserves as initialCapital. * $addBlock(id = NULL, block = NULL, t, ...) Generic function to add a child block to the contract. If a block (object of type LifeInsuranceContract is passed, it is inserted and flagged as starting at time t. If no block is passed, a new insurance contract is created using the arguments passed as ..., combined with the parameters of the main contract. If t>0, the child block starts later than the original contract. It is also possible that the child block extends beyond the maturity of the original contract (e.g. contract extensions are implemented this way).

In these case, the main contract will have several child blocks (also LifeInsuranceContract objects), and the values of the main contract object will be the aggregated values of all its children, rather than the results of a calculation from an underlying tariff.

10.1 Dynamic increases

To increase the sum insured or premium by a given value ()

# Contract with initial capital of 5.000 EUR
ctr.dynInc = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  age = 40, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)$
  addDynamics(t = 1, SumInsuredDelta = 1000)$
  addDynamics(t = 5, NewSumInsured = 15000)$
  addDynamics(t = 8, SumInsuredDelta = 4000)


ctr.dynInc$Values$basicData
#>    PremiumPayment SumInsured Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration PremiumPeriod
#>                 1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 1               2      11000 1208.880        0.005             10            10
#> 2               2      11000 1208.880        0.005             10            10
#> 3               2      11000 1208.880        0.005             10            10
#> 4               2      11000 1208.880        0.005             10            10
#> 5               3      15000 2083.097        0.005             10            10
#> 6               3      15000 2083.097        0.005             10            10
#> 7               3      15000 2083.097        0.005             10            10
#> 8               4      19000 4271.768        0.005             10            10
#> 9               4      19000 4271.768        0.005             10            10
#> 10              0      19000    0.000        0.005             10            10

As seen in this table, the sum insured increases and the premium with it. The PremiumPayment column is no longer a 0/1-column indicating whether a premium is paid or not, but rather is the number of blocks/layers where a premium is paid.

The individual blocks can be accessed with the contract$blocks list:

for (b in ctr.dynInc$blocks) {
  cat(paste0("Block: ", b$Parameters$ContractData$id, ", starts at t=", b$Parameters$ContractData$blockStart, ", policyPeriod=", b$Parameters$ContractData$policyPeriod, "\n"))
}
#> Block: Hauptvertrag, starts at t=0, policyPeriod=10
#> Block: dyn1, starts at t=1, policyPeriod=9
#> Block: dyn2, starts at t=5, policyPeriod=5
#> Block: dyn3, starts at t=8, policyPeriod=2

Each block is formally handled like a separate contract, each starting at its own time t=0. The over-all contract then takes care to correctly shift the child blocks to the time relative to the parent block, before aggregating the data:

ctr.dynInc$blocks$Hauptvertrag$Values$basicData
#>    PremiumPayment SumInsured Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration PremiumPeriod
#> 0               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 1               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 2               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 3               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 4               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 5               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 6               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 7               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 8               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 9               1      10000 1087.878        0.005             10            10
#> 10              0      10000    0.000        0.005             10            10
ctr.dynInc$blocks$dyn1$Values$basicData
#>   PremiumPayment SumInsured Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration PremiumPeriod
#> 0              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 1              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 2              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 3              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 4              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 5              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 6              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 7              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 8              1       1000 121.0011        0.005              9             9
#> 9              0       1000   0.0000        0.005              9             9
ctr.dynInc$blocks$dyn2$Values$basicData
#>   PremiumPayment SumInsured Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration PremiumPeriod
#> 0              1       4000 874.2175        0.005              5             5
#> 1              1       4000 874.2175        0.005              5             5
#> 2              1       4000 874.2175        0.005              5             5
#> 3              1       4000 874.2175        0.005              5             5
#> 4              1       4000 874.2175        0.005              5             5
#> 5              0       4000   0.0000        0.005              5             5
ctr.dynInc$blocks$dyn3$Values$basicData
#>   PremiumPayment SumInsured Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration PremiumPeriod
#> 0              1       4000 2188.671        0.005              2             2
#> 1              1       4000 2188.671        0.005              2             2
#> 2              0       4000    0.000        0.005              2             2

10.2 General biometric riders

Instead of adding a dynamic increase, which typically uses the same tariff as the main contract, it is also possible to bundle e.g. a protection rider to a saving product. The savings product and the protection rider are calculated individually as child blocks, and the overall values of the contract are obtained by aggregating the values from the two children (savings and protection part). Of course, in this scenario, the combined sumInsured of the overall contract is not meaningful, but the sumInsured of the individual blocks is.

ctr.main = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  age = 40, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
ctr.Rider = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.L71U, 
  sumInsured = 100000, 
  age = 40, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
ctr.main$addBlock(block = ctr.Rider)

ctr.withRider = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  age = 40, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)$
  addBlock(tarif = Tarif.L71U, sumInsured = 100000, 
           age = 40, policyPeriod = 10,
           contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01"))

10.3 Extending a contract beyond its maturity

When a contract expires, many companies offer premium-free contract extensions, where the existing reserve is used as initial reserve for a follow-up contract (possibly with new terms and parameters like interest rate or mortalities).

Instead of modifying the original contract and re-calculating it, it is easier to model the extension as a new block with the existing reserve given as . The extension will be calculated like a standalone-contract and the overall contract will aggregate the values from the original contract and the extension. As the extension is a separate contract object, one can pass all contract parameters to the method.

The original premiumPeriod of the main contract is used, so by default the extension will be a premium-free extension, where the sumInsured is calculated from the existing reserve and the benefits and costs of the extensions’ tariff.

To create a premium-free extension explicitly, one can pass (which is the default anyway). To create an extension with regular (or single) premium payments, one can pass either a or a to provide the sum insured and the premium and calculate the other from the given value

# original contract, expiring after 20 years
ContractA = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  age = 40, policyPeriod = 20,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2000-07-01")
)

# premium-free extension
ContractB = ContractA$clone()$
  addExtension(id = "Verlaengerung1", contractPeriod = 5, premiumPeriod = 0)
# sumInsured calculated from existing reserve:
ContractB$blocks$Verlaengerung1$Parameters$ContractData$sumInsured
#> [1] 10723.08
ContractB$Values$basicData
#>    PremiumPayment SumInsured Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration PremiumPeriod
#> 0               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 1               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 2               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 3               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 4               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 5               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 6               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 7               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 8               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 9               1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 10              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 11              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 12              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 13              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 14              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 15              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 16              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 17              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 18              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 19              1   10000.00 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 20              0   20723.08   0.0000        0.005             20            20
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0
#>                 0   10723.08   0.0000        0.005             20             0

# extension with given sumInsured resulting in 0 (gross) premiums
ContractC = ContractA$clone()$
  addExtension(id = "Verlaengerung1", contractPeriod = 5, sumInsured = 10723.07973354)
ContractC$blocks$Verlaengerung1$Values$premiums[["gross"]]
#> [1] -8.449569e-06
ContractC$Values$basicData
#>    PremiumPayment SumInsured      Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration
#> 0               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 1               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 2               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 3               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 4               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 5               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 6               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 7               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 8               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 9               1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 10              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 11              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 12              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 13              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 14              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 15              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 16              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 17              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 18              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 19              1   10000.00  5.448277e+02        0.005             20
#> 20              0   20723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08 -8.449569e-06        0.005             20
#>                 0   10723.08  0.000000e+00        0.005             20
#>    PremiumPeriod
#> 0             20
#> 1             20
#> 2             20
#> 3             20
#> 4             20
#> 5             20
#> 6             20
#> 7             20
#> 8             20
#> 9             20
#> 10            20
#> 11            20
#> 12            20
#> 13            20
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# extension with increased sumInsured: real premiums are charged, reserves start from the existing reserve:
ContractD = ContractA$clone()$
  addExtension(id = "Verlaengerung1", contractPeriod = 5, sumInsured = 20000)
ContractD$Values$basicData
#>    PremiumPayment SumInsured Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration PremiumPeriod
#> 0               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 1               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 2               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 3               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 4               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 5               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 6               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 7               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 8               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 9               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 10              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 11              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 12              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 13              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 14              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 15              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 16              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 17              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 18              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 19              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 20              1      30000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 1      20000 564.8817        0.005             20            20
#>                 0      20000   0.0000        0.005             20            20

# extension with regular premiums, which are given: sumInsured is calculated from it, reserves start from the existing reserve:
ContractD = ContractA$clone()$
  addExtension(id = "Verlaengerung1", contractPeriod = 5, premium = 597.8771)
ContractD$Values$basicData
#>    PremiumPayment SumInsured Premiums InterestRate PolicyDuration PremiumPeriod
#> 0               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 1               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 2               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 3               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 4               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 5               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 6               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 7               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 8               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 9               1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 10              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 11              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
#> 12              1      10000 544.8277        0.005             20            20
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11 Handling contracts with increases

While many insurance contracts have a fixed sum insured and constant premium, many contracts include some kind of adjustment to account for inflation. There are various ways to achieve such an adjustment:

The initial contract already includes a planned increase in the benefits by a pre-determined factor $(1+s)$ each year, premiums are constant over the whole duration.
The initial contract has fixed sum insured, but the premiums increase by a factor $(1+s)$ each year due to salary increases.
“Dynamic increases”: The initial contract has fixed sum insured with fixed regular premiums. However, every year (or triggered based on an inflation or consumer price index) the sum insured is increased by a certain amount (either fixed or by the same percentage as the index) and the premiums are increased accordingly. Internally, this is represented by a second, shorter contract covering only the increase in sumInsured, from which the additional premium can be calculated according to the tariff.

The LifeInsuranceContract package provides functionality for each of these increases. All three increases can in theory be combined in the same contract, although in practice this usually does not happen and at most one kind of increase is included in a contract

11.1 Fixed yearly premium increases

With this kind of increases, the initial contract valuation (i.e. the determination of the premium at contract inception) already takes into account that the premium will not stay constant over the whole period, but increases by a constant factor each year. The sum insured is calculated by the equivalence principle so that the expected present value of all future benefits and costs equals the expected present value of all future (i.e. increasing) premium payments.

This type of yearly premium increase by a fixed factor can be implemented by the parameter:

premiumIncrease … The factor, by which the premium increases yearly. Default is 1.0 (no increase in premium).

In the following example, we create a 10-year endowment contract with constant premiums over the whole period and another one with idential parameters except that the premium increases by 4% each year:

# For comparison: Contract with constant premiums
contract.Endow.Constant = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  age = 50, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
# Contract with 4% yearly premium increase and same sum insured
contract.Endow.PremInc = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  premiumIncrease = 1.04,
  age = 50, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
premium.comparison = data.frame(
  `Sum Insured` = contract.Endow.Constant$Values$basicData[,"SumInsured"],
  `Constant Premium` = contract.Endow.Constant$Values$basicData[,"Premiums"],
  `4% Yearly Increase` = contract.Endow.PremInc$Values$basicData[,"Premiums"],
  check.names = F
  )

premium.comparison %>% pander

	Sum Insured	Constant Premium	4% Yearly Increase
0	10000	1101	911.66
1	10000	1101	948.13
2	10000	1101	986.05
3	10000	1101	1025.50
4	10000	1101	1066.52
5	10000	1101	1109.18
6	10000	1101	1153.54
7	10000	1101	1199.69
8	10000	1101	1247.67
9	10000	1101	1297.58
10	10000	0	0.00

11.2 Fixed yearly benefit increases with constant premium

With this kind of increases, the premium will stay constant over the whole contract maturity, but the death and/or survival benefit (or the annuity payment) will increase by a fixed factor each year. This is typically to safeguard the benefit against inflation, so that the value of the annuity payment or death benefit does not diminish due to inflation. The initial contract valuation (i.e. the determination of the constant premium at contract inception) already takes into account that the benefits will not stay constant over the whole period, but increases by a constant factor each year.

This type of yearly benefit increase by a fixed factor can be implemented by the parameters:

annuityIncrease … The factor, by which potential annuity payments increase yearly. Default is 1.0 (no increase in annuity benefits)
deathBenefit … The vector of death benefits (relative to the sum insured, which for endowments describes the survival benefit)

# For comparison: Contract with constant premiums
contract.TermLife.Constant = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Life,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  age = 50, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
# Contract with 4% yearly increase in sum insured (final survival benefit is 10.000)
contract.TermLife.SumInc = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Life,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  deathBenefit = (1.04)^(0:20),
  age = 50, policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
premium.comparison = data.frame(
  `Const S.I.` = contract.TermLife.Constant$Values$absCashFlows[,"death"],
  `Const. Premium` = contract.TermLife.Constant$Values$absCashFlows[,"premiums_advance"],
  `4% sum increase` = contract.TermLife.SumInc$Values$absCashFlows[,"death"],
  `Premium w. sum increase` = contract.TermLife.SumInc$Values$absCashFlows[,"premiums_advance"],
  check.names = F
  )
premium.comparison

Const S.I.	Const. Premium	4% sum increase	Premium w. sum increase
10000	61	10000.00	72.74
10000	61	10400.00	72.74
10000	61	10816.00	72.74
10000	61	11248.64	72.74
10000	61	11698.59	72.74
10000	61	12166.53	72.74
10000	61	12653.19	72.74
10000	61	13159.32	72.74
10000	61	13685.69	72.74
10000	61	14233.12	72.74
0	0	0.00	0.00

For annuities, the benefit increase is not handled through deathBenefits, but rather through the parameter

annuityIncrease … yearly increase factor of the annuity payments

# For comparison: Contract with constant annuity
contract.Annuity.Constant = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.DefAnnuity,
  sumInsured = 1200,
  age = 55, 
  policyPeriod = 10,
  deferralPeriod = 5,
  premiumPeriod = 5,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
# Contract with 4% yearly increase in annuity benefits
contract.Annuity.Increasing = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.DefAnnuity,
  sumInsured = 1200,
  annuityIncrease = 1.04,
  age = 55, 
  policyPeriod = 10,
  deferralPeriod = 5,
  premiumPeriod = 5,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
# Contract with 4% yearly increase in premiums and in annuity payments
contract.Annuity.IncreasingBoth = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.DefAnnuity,
  sumInsured = 1200,
  annuityIncrease = 1.04,
  premiumIncrease = 1.04,
  age = 55, 
  policyPeriod = 10,
  deferralPeriod = 5,
  premiumPeriod = 5,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)
premium.comparison = data.frame(
  `Const. Annuity` = contract.Annuity.Constant$Values$absCashFlows[,"survival_advance"],
  `Const. Premium` = contract.Annuity.Constant$Values$absCashFlows[,"premiums_advance"],
  `4% Annuity Increase` = contract.Annuity.Increasing$Values$absCashFlows[,"survival_advance"],
  `Premium w. Ann.Increase` = contract.Annuity.Increasing$Values$absCashFlows[,"premiums_advance"],
  `Inc.Premium w. Ann.Increase` = contract.Annuity.IncreasingBoth$Values$absCashFlows[,"premiums_advance"],
  check.names = F
  )

premium.comparison %>% pander

Const. Annuity	Const. Premium	4% Annuity Increase	Premium w. Ann.Increase	Inc.Premium w. Ann.Increase
0	1277.47	0.00	1382.86	1271.94
0	1277.47	0.00	1382.86	1322.81
0	1277.47	0.00	1382.86	1375.73
0	1277.47	0.00	1382.86	1430.75
0	1277.47	0.00	1382.86	1487.98
1200	0.00	1200.00	0.00	0.00
1200	0.00	1248.00	0.00	0.00
1200	0.00	1297.92	0.00	0.00
1200	0.00	1349.84	0.00	0.00
1200	0.00	1403.83	0.00	0.00
0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

11.3 Dynamic Increases

With dynamic increases, the contract initially is written with a fixed sum insured and constant premiums over the whole contract period. The future increases are not considered at all.

After the initial contract inception, either yearly or when a consumer price index changes by a value larger than a given threshold, the sum insured is increased (either by a fixed amount or by an amount determined by the index change) and the premium is adjusted accordingly. Internally, the original contract is left untouched and the increase is modelled by a separate contract with the same key parameters, only with shorter duration and a sum insured that represents only the increase. The premium for this increase is calculated like a separate contract with only the difference in the over-all sum insured as its sum insured.

Each dynamic increase then adds another separate tiny InsuranceContract object and the over-all values are the sums of all those contract blocks (sometimes also called “contract slices”).

The InsuranceContract class provides a method to add a dynamic increase:

InsuranceContract$addDynamics(t, NewSumInsured, SumInsuredDelta, id, ...)

Only one of NewSumInsured (new total sum insured) and SumInsuredDelta (only the difference between old and new sum insured) is needed. This method adds a new contract block to the given InsuranceContract, starting at time $t$ with SumInsuredDelta as its sum insured and its premium calculated from the shorter contract period and the sum insured delta. These blocks for dynamic increases are stored in the contract’s $blocks list of children. The values stored in the contract are then simply the sum of all its children.

Here is an example of a 10-year endowment, which has dynamic increases at times $t=5$, $t=7$ and $t=8$:

# For comparison: Contract with constant annuity
contract.Endowment.Dynamics = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  age = 40, 
  policyPeriod = 10,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01"),
  id = "Initial contract"
)$
  addDynamics(t = 5, NewSumInsured = 11000, id = "Dynamic at 5")$
  addDynamics(t = 7, NewSumInsured = 12000, id = "Dynamic at 7")$
  addDynamics(t = 8, NewSumInsured = 13500, id = "Dynamic at 8")

# Over-all contract sum insured and premiums for all blocks combined
contract.Endowment.Dynamics$Values$basicData[,c("SumInsured", "Premiums")] %>% pander

	SumInsured	Premiums
0	10000	1087.88
1	10000	1087.88
2	10000	1087.88
3	10000	1087.88
4	10000	1087.88
5	11000	1306.43
6	11000	1306.43
7	12000	1671.09
8	13500	2491.84
9	13500	2491.84
10	13500	0.00

Sum Insured for the over-all contract and each of the blocks
t	Over-all contract	Initial contract	Dynamic at 5	Dynamic at 7	Dynamic at 8
0	10000	10000	0	0	0
1	10000	10000	0	0	0
2	10000	10000	0	0	0
3	10000	10000	0	0	0
4	10000	10000	0	0	0
5	11000	10000	1000	0	0
6	11000	10000	1000	0	0
7	12000	10000	1000	1000	0
8	13500	10000	1000	1000	1500
9	13500	10000	1000	1000	1500
10	13500	10000	1000	1000	1500

Premium time series for the over-all contract and each of the blocks
t	Over-all contract	Initial contract	Dynamic at 5	Dynamic at 7	Dynamic at 8
0	1087.88	1087.88	0.00	0.00	0.00
1	1087.88	1087.88	0.00	0.00	0.00
2	1087.88	1087.88	0.00	0.00	0.00
3	1087.88	1087.88	0.00	0.00	0.00
4	1087.88	1087.88	0.00	0.00	0.00
5	1306.43	1087.88	218.55	0.00	0.00
6	1306.43	1087.88	218.55	0.00	0.00
7	1671.09	1087.88	218.55	364.66	0.00
8	2491.84	1087.88	218.55	364.66	820.75
9	2491.84	1087.88	218.55	364.66	820.75
10	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

12 Profit participation

In addition to the above guaranteed values, many contracts also include some kind of profit sharing. The total amount of money to be distributed is usually predetermined by law or regulation (in Austria by the “Lebensversicherung-Gewinnbeteiligungsverordnung – LV-GBV”, but the actual way they are distributed to individual contracts is up the insurance undertaking. The profit participation scheme defines profit participation allocations based on certain rates and bases, where the formulas and the types of profit are pre-determined in a formal document (which in this package will be implemented as an object of class ProfitParticipation), while the profit rates are determined by the management of the undertaking (“discretionary benefits”).

Typical Austrian insurance contracts have one of two kinds of profit sharing mechanisms:

“Advance profit participation” or “direct contributions”, which is a direct premium rebate, which can in theory be lowered or revoked at any time.
Yearly profit assignments into the reserves based on “total credited interet rate” and other profit attribution rates.

12.1 Advance profit participation (premium rebate)

To implement advance profit participation, one still needs to create a ProfitParticipation object, which can be empty. The contract parameters advanceProfitParticipation and advanceProfitParticipationInclUnitCost then define the premium rebate. They can be set either in the profit scheme or in the tariff definition. The latter is usually the easier way, as one profit scheme might be applicable to multiple different tariffs with different advance profit participation rates.

As an example, we will use our Tarif.Life whole life tarif defined above and add a $38\%$ advance profit participation on the premium:

profit.Advance.V1 = ProfitParticipation$new(
    name = "Profit Scheme for advance profit participation, V 1.0",
    advanceProfitParticipation = 0.38
);

Tarif.Life.withPP = Tarif.Life$createModification(
  name = "Example Tariff - Whole/Term Life with profit sharing",
  tarif = "Life1PP",
  profitParticipationScheme = profit.Advance.V1
)

contract.LifePP = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Life.withPP,
  age = 40, policyPeriod = 10,
  sumInsured = 100000,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2019-09-01")
)

The premium composition shows that the profit participation

contract.LifePP$Values$premiumComposition

t	charged	tax	profit.advance	gross	net
0	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
1	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
2	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
3	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
4	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
5	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
6	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
7	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
8	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
9	184.54	7.1	-108.76	286.2	160.11
10	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.0	0.00

12.2 The ProfitParticiption class

The profit participation scheme of a tarif is represented by an object of the ProfitParticipation class. While the InsuranceContract.Parameters list contains elements for the profit rates, the implementation of the calculation of the profit parts is done by functions defined in the ProfitParticipation constructor.

This scheme is passed to the InsuranceTarif or InsuranceContract via the profitParticipationScheme parameter. `

There are different types of profit participation assignments, based on the type of risks they are based upon:

Interest profit: total credited rate (minus guarantee) applied to some kind of reserve
Risk profit: risk profit rate applied to the risk premium, capital or the sum insured
Expense profit: expense profit rate applied to the sum insured
Sum profit: rate (depending on sum insured) applied to the sum insured
Terminal bonus: yearly attributions are collected and paid out only on contract maturity
Terminal bonus fund: Part of the ongoing profit allocation is not immediately attributed to the contract, but stored in a special reserve and paid out only on maturity.

Each of these profit components in general depends in some way on a profit rate and a basis to which the rate is applied. So each component has the general functional form: \[Profit^{type}_t = Calc\left(Rate^{type}_t, Basis^{type}_t\right)\] The most common calculation function is a simple multiplication, i.e. $Calc(r, b) = r\cdot b$, but other functions are possible, to

The (default) parameters that can be passed to the ProfitParticipation constructor are:

General profit setup
`waitingPeriod`	During the waiting period at the beginning of a contract, no profit participation is assigned
`profitComponents`	describes the different components of profit participation (“interest”, “risk”, “expense”, “sum”, “terminal”)
`profitClass`	a profit ID used to identify the correct profit rates (rates are defined per profit class)
`profitRates`	a data frame containing company-wide profit rates. Key columns are year and profitClass
Advance profit participation rates
`advanceProfitParticipation`	premium rebate (percentage discount on the gross premium)
`advanceProfitParticipationInclUnitCost`	premium rebate (percentage discount on the gross premium including unit costs)
Regular profit participation rates
`guaranteedInterest` $i$	Contract-specific override of the guaranteed intereste rate (only for profit participation purposes)
`interestProfitRate` $ip_t$	Profit interest rate (added to the guaranteed interest rate to arrive at the total credited rate)
`totalInterest` $tcr_t$	The total credited interest rate (sum of guaranteed interest and profit participation interest)
`mortalityProfitRate` $rp_t$	Mortality / risk profit rate
`expenseProfitRate` $ep_t$	Expenso profit rate
`sumProfitRate` $sp_t$	Sum profit rate (typically a function, depending on sum insured)
`terminalBonusRate` $tb_t$	Terminal bonus rate
`terminalBonusFundRate` $tbf_t$	Terminal bonus fund rate, i.e. which percentage of the assigned profits are withheld in a separate terminal bonus fund and only paid out at maturity.

For the calculation of the profit participation, the ProfitParticipation class holds a list of function pointers to calculate each component of profit participation, as outlined above. For each of interest, risk, expense, sum, terminal and terminal bonus fund the following three functions can be given:

Profit rate: return the profit rate as a function from the values of the contract

Function signature: function(rates, ...)
Profit base: The quantity on which to apply the rate. Typically this function returns either the current reserve, the previous reserve (or some combination), the sum insured or the current risk premium.

Function signature: function(rates, params, values, ...)
Calculation: A function taking the rate and the base and calculate the profit assigned for the specific profit component. Most common are a simple multiplication of base and rate, but other formulas are possible, too.

Function signature: function(base, rate, waiting, rates, params, values, ...)

Thus, the constructor of the ProfitParticipation class also takes the following parameters:

Type of profit	Function for rate	Function for base	Function for calculation
interest on accrued profit	`getInterestOnProfits`	- (existing profit)	-
interest profit	`getInterestProfitRate`	`getInterestProfitBase`	`calculateInterestProfit`
risk profit	`getRiskProfitRate`	`getRiskProfitBase`	`calculateRiskProfit`
expense profit	`getExpenseProfitRate`	`getExpenseProfitBase`	`calculateExpenseProfit`
sum profit	`getSumProfitRate`	`getSumProfitBase`	`calculateSumProfit`
terminal bonus	`getTerminalBonusRate`	`getTerminalBonusBase`	`calculateTerminalBonus`
terminal bonus fund	`getTerminalBonusFundRate`	`getTerminalBonusFundBase`	`calculateTerminalBonusFund`

In addition, the following parameters define functions for reserves:

getTerminalBonusReserve … Calculate the reserve for the terminal bonus from the bonus assignments (old tariffs often use some kind of discounting or conditional reserving for the terminal bonus reserve)

Function signature: function(profits, rates, terminalBonus, terminalBonusAccount, params, values)

To calculate the actual benefits paid out from profit participation, the following parameters take the corresponding functions (signature: function(profits, rates, params, values, ...) )

`calculateSurvivalBenefit`	Benefit from profit participation at maturity (in addition to the guaranteed payout)
`calculateDeathBenefitAccrued`	Benefit from profit participation upon death (in addition to the guaranteed payout)
`calculateDeathBenefitTerminal`	Benefit from terminal bonus upon death (in addition to the guaranteed payout and regular profit participation)
`calculateSurrenderBenefitAccrued`	Benefit from profit participation upon contract surrender (in addition to the surrender value)
`calculateSurrenderBenefitTerminal`	Benefit from terminal bonus upon contract surrender (in addition to the surrender value and regular profit participation)
`calculatePremiumWaiverBenefitAccrued`	Benefit from profit participation upon premium waiver (in addition to the surrender value)
`calculatePremiumWaiverBenefitTerminal`	Benefit from terminal bonus upon premium waiver surrender (in addition to the surrender value and regular profit participation)

12.2.1 Existing functions to use

While the details of a profit participation scheme are very specific and no two profit schemes are exactly alike, the basic functionality to extract rates and bases and the calculation functions are usually not so different. For this reason, the LifeInsureR package provides several little helper functions that provide the most common functionality for the definition of rates, bases and the profit calculation. See ?ProfitParticipationFunctions for the full list.

The most common functions are:

PP.base.PreviousZillmerReserve(rates, params, values, ...)
PP.base.contractualReserve(rates, params, values, ...)
PP.base.previousContractualReserve(rates, params, values, ...)
PP.base.meanContractualReserve(rates, params, values, ...)
PP.base.ZillmerRiskPremium(rates, params, values, ...)
PP.base.sumInsured(rates, params, values, ...)
PP.base.totalProfitAssignment(res, ...)
PP.rate.interestProfit(rates, ...)
PP.rate.riskProfit(rates, ...)
PP.rate.expenseProfit(rates, ...)
PP.rate.sumProfit(rates, ...)
PP.rate.terminalBonus(rates, ...)
PP.rate.terminalBonusFund(rates, ...)
PP.rate.interestProfitPlusGuarantee(rates, ...)
PP.rate.totalInterest(rates, ...)
PP.calculate.RateOnBase(base, rate, waiting, rates, params, values, ...)
PP.calculate.RateOnBaseMin0(base, rate, waiting, rates, params, values, ...)
PP.calculate.RatePlusGuaranteeOnBase(base, rate, waiting, rates, params, values, ...)
PP.benefit.ProfitPlusTerminalBonusReserve(profits, ...)
PP.benefit.Profit(profits, ...)
PP.benefit.ProfitPlusGuaranteedInterest(profits, rates, ...)
PP.benefit.ProfitPlusTotalInterest(profits, rates, params, values)
PP.benefit.ProfitPlusHalfTotalInterest(profits, ...)
PP.benefit.ProfitPlusInterestMinGuaranteeTotal(profits, rates, ...)
PP.benefit.TerminalBonus5YearsProRata(profits, params, ...)
PP.benefit.TerminalBonus5Years(profits, params, ...)
PP.benefit.TerminalBonus(profits, params, ...)

12.2.2 Example profit scheme

For example, imagine a tariff’s total cumulated assigned profit $G_t$ and the benefits at time $t$ have the formulas: \[Prof_t = \left(G_{t-1} + TBF_{t-1}\right) \cdot \left(1 + i + ip_t\right) + ip_t \cdot \frac{\left(Res_{t-1} + Res_{t}\right)}{2} + rp_t \cdot P^r_t + ep_t \cdot SumInsured + sp_t(SI) \cdot SumInsured\] \[G_t = G_{t-1} + (1 - tbf_t) \cdot Prof_t\] \[TBF_t = TBF_{t-1} + tbf_t \cdot Prof_t\] \[Death_t = G_t \cdot \left(1 + i + ip_t\right) + TBF_t\] \[Matu_n = G_n + TBF_n\] \[Surrender_t = G_t\cdot \left(1+\frac{i + ip_t}{2}\right) + 0.5 \cdot TBF_t\] \[Red_t = G_t + 0.5 \cdot TBF_t\]

These formulas can be interpreted as following:

There are multiple profit components: interest profit, risk profit, expense profit and sum profit.
The total profit assignment $Prof_t$ in year $t$ consists of:
- Interest (guarantee + interest profit rate) on the accrued profits and the terminal bonus fund
- Interest profit on the average reserve
- Risk profit as part of the risk premium (similar to advance profit participation, but on a year-by-year basis on the actual risk premium)
- Expense profit relative to the sum insured
- Sum profit relative to the sum insured. The rate depends on the sum insured, too (e.g. higher SI typically have higher sum profit)
- Only a portion $(1-tbf_t)$ is added to the accrued bonus, while the rest ist stored in the Terminal Bonus Fund.
The existing cumulated profit $G_{t-1}$ and the terminal bonus fund $TBF_{t-1}$ yields interest with the guaranteed interest rate plus potentially the interest profit rate. If the total credited rate is lower than the guarantee, the guarantee is still applied to the existing profits. => PP.rate.interestProfitPlusGuarantee
Additionaly, interest profit is assigned with rate $ip_t$ (=0 if total credited rate is below guarantee) multiplied with the average of the current and the previous reserve for the guaranteed part. => PP.base.meanContractualReserve
The risk profit works similar to advance profit participation, only that part of the (actual) risk premium of the year is returned to the customer after having paid it. => PP.base.ZillmerRiskPremium
Expense profit is based on the sum insured, since most cost structures are linear in the sum insured and contain certain loadings, which are returned to the customer via this profit component.
A sum profit of $sp_t$ of the sum insured is added, even if no interest profit is distributed. The sum profit rate depends on the sum insured (as a function), since the charges expenses increase linearly in the sum insured while the actual cost do increase only sub-linear. So for higher sums typically more expenses are returned. => The sum profit rate will be a function rather than a single value each year.
Only a part $(1-tbf_t)$ of the profit assignment in year $t$ is added to the accrued profits $G_t$, while the rest $tbf_t$ is stored in the terminal bonus fund $TBF_t$, which is partially lost on surrender or premium waiver.

The values of $Res_t$, $P^r_t$, $SumInsured$ and the guaranteed interest $i^g_t$ are prescribed by the tariff or contract, while the profit participation rates $ip_t$, $rp_t$, $ep_t$ and $sp_t$ are decided on a year-by-year basis by the management boards.

The benefits for death, maturity, surrender and premium waivers are:

In case of death, the existing cumulated profits yield one additional year of interest => PP.benefit.ProfitPlusInterestMinGuaranteeTotal
At maturity of the contract, the existing cumulated profits are paid out in addition to the guaranteed benefits of the contract. => PP.benefit.Profit
In case of surrender (on average half a year after the contract’s anniversary), half a year of interest is added to the existing cumulated profits from the last anniversary => PP.benefit.ProfitPlusHalfInterestMinGuaranteeTotal
When premiums are waived, the existing accrued profits are taken into account without any additional interest. => PP.benefit.Profit
The terminal bonus fund is paid out fully on death and at maturity, while half of the TBF is lost on surrender or premium waiver.

This profit scheme can be easily be implemented as a ProfitParticipation object, where one can pass the functions for bases and calculation and also provide default profit rates:

ProfitScheme.example = ProfitParticipation$new(
  name = "Example Profit Scheme, V 1.0",
  profitComponents = c("interest", "risk", "expense", "sum", "TBF"),

  getInterestOnProfits    = PP.rate.interestProfitPlusGuarantee,
  getInterestProfitBase   = PP.base.meanContractualReserve,
  getRiskProfitBase       = PP.base.ZillmerRiskPremium,
  getExpenseProfitBase    = PP.base.sumInsured,
  getSumProfitBase        = PP.base.sumInsured,
  getTerminalBonusFundBase = PP.base.totalProfitAssignment,
  
  mortalityProfitRate = 0.15,
  expenseProfitRate = 0.01,
  sumProfitRate = function(params, ...) {if (params$ContractData$sumInsured > 1000000) 0.005 else 0;},
  terminalBonusFundRate = 0.3,
  
  calculateSurvivalBenefit      = PP.benefit.ProfitPlusTerminalBonusReserve,
  
  calculateDeathBenefitAccrued  = PP.benefit.ProfitPlusInterestMinGuaranteeTotal,
  calculateDeathBenefitTerminal = PP.benefit.TerminalBonus,
  calculateSurrenderBenefitAccrued = PP.benefit.ProfitPlusHalfInterestMinGuaranteeTotal,
  calculateSurrenderBenefitTerminal = function(profits, ...) {  profits[, "TBF"] / 2 },
  calculatePremiumWaiverBenefitAccrued = PP.benefit.Profit,
  calculatePremiumWaiverBenefitTerminal = function(profits, ...) {  profits[, "TBF"] / 2 },
  
  profitClass = NULL
)

The calculation functions are not given, as they default to the correct PP.calculate.RateOnBase anyway. The interest profit rates are not given, as they will vary over time with no default value. Rathery, they need to be passed to the call to InsuranceContract$addProfitScenario() to calculate one particular profit scenario with given rates. In contrast, the mortality, expense and sum profit rates are initialized with some default values, which will be used if a profit scenario does not explicitly give those profit rates.

12.2.3 Using the profit scheme in a tariff or contract

The profit scheme defined above can now be used with the profitParticipationScheme parameter in a tariff or a contract. Usually, the profit scheme is a property of the product, so it should be specified in the tariff, but can be overridden in a contract.

As an example, let us create an endowment contract with 500% death benefit that uses this profit scheme:

contract.Endow.PP = InsuranceContract$new(
  tarif = Tarif.Endowment,
  sumInsured = 10000,
  deathBenefit = 5,
  age = 50, policyPeriod = 15,
  
  profitParticipationScheme = ProfitScheme.example,
  contractClosing = as.Date("2020-09-01")
)

In contrast to the guaranteed values, which can and will be calculated as soon as the contract is created, the profit participation needs to be explicitly called with the desired rates. A contract can store multiple different profit scenarios, which can be added with the addProfitScenario() method. This method can also be chained to add multiple scenarios (e.g. )

contract.Endow.PP$
  addProfitScenario(id = "Current total credited rate", guaranteedInterest = 0.005, interestProfitRate = 0.02, totalInterest = 0.025)$
  addProfitScenario(id = "Current TCR-1%", guaranteedInterest = 0.005, interestProfitRate = 0.01, totalInterest = 0.015)$
  addProfitScenario(id = "Current TCR+1%", guaranteedInterest = 0.005, interestProfitRate = 0.03, totalInterest = 0.035)

All profit scenarios are stored in the InsuranceContract$Values$profitScenarios list indexed with the id given in the call.

The array containing all values of the profit scenario first holds the calculation basis and the rate for each of the profit components:

contract.Endow.PP$Values$profitScenarios$`Current total credited rate` %>%
  as.data.frame() %>%
  select(ends_with("Base"), ends_with("Interest"), ends_with("Rate"), -TBFRate, -TBFBase, -totalInterest) %>%
  rowid_to_column("t") %>% mutate(t = t - 1) %>% kable()

t	interestBase	riskBase	expenseBase	sumBase	guaranteedInterest	interestProfitRate	riskProfitRate	expenseProfitRate	interestOnProfitRate
0	0.00000	0.0000	10000	10000	0.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.000
1	18.56845	139.2892	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
2	803.01905	151.7772	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
3	1578.39853	165.1467	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
4	2343.76130	179.4261	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
5	3098.03332	194.8334	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
6	3839.92597	211.5669	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
7	4567.84836	230.0169	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
8	5280.07413	250.0469	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
9	5975.02268	271.4863	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
10	6651.23186	294.2541	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
11	7307.44935	317.9992	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
12	7942.76663	342.3761	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
13	8556.80171	366.6734	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
14	9149.32455	391.2964	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025
15	9720.07684	415.8936	10000	10000	0.005	0.02	0.15	0.01	0.025

The base for interest profit is the average of the reserve:

t	SumInsured	Zillmer	AvgZillmer
0	10000	-375.81	-187.90
1	10000	412.95	18.57
2	10000	1193.09	803.02
3	10000	1963.70	1578.40
4	10000	2723.82	2343.76
5	10000	3472.25	3098.03
6	10000	4207.60	3839.93
7	10000	4928.09	4567.85
8	10000	5632.06	5280.07
9	10000	6317.99	5975.02
10	10000	6984.47	6651.23
11	10000	7630.43	7307.45
12	10000	8255.11	7942.77
13	10000	8858.50	8556.80
14	10000	9440.15	9149.32
15	10000	10000.00	9720.08

From the bases and rates, the calculation function (in our case simply the multiplication of rate and base) is applied to arrive at the yearly profit allocation of each component:

contract.Endow.PP$Values$profitScenarios$`Current total credited rate` %>%
  as.data.frame() %>%
  select(ends_with("Profit"), totalProfitAssignment, -totalProfit) %>%
  rowid_to_column("t") %>% mutate(t = t - 1) %>%
  pander

t	interestProfit	riskProfit	expenseProfit	componentsProfit	interestOnProfit	totalProfitAssignment
0	0.00	0.00	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
1	0.37	20.89	100	121.26	0.00	121.26
2	16.06	22.77	100	138.83	3.03	141.86
3	31.57	24.77	100	156.34	6.58	162.92
4	46.88	26.91	100	173.79	10.65	184.44
5	61.96	29.23	100	191.19	15.26	206.45
6	76.80	31.74	100	208.53	20.42	228.96
7	91.36	34.50	100	225.86	26.15	252.01
8	105.60	37.51	100	243.11	32.45	275.56
9	119.50	40.72	100	260.22	39.34	299.56
10	133.02	44.14	100	277.16	46.83	323.99
11	146.15	47.70	100	293.85	54.92	348.77
12	158.86	51.36	100	310.21	63.64	373.86
13	171.14	55.00	100	326.14	72.99	399.13
14	182.99	58.69	100	341.68	82.97	424.65
15	194.40	62.38	100	356.79	93.59	450.37

The totalProfitAssignment column is the sum of all component allocations in the given year (the $Prof_t$ in the formulas above).

After all components are calculated, the yearly profit assignment is split into the part that is accrued in the regular bonus and the part that is placed in the terminal bonus fund, using the terminal bonus fund rate. Finally, the yearly regular and terminal bonus assignments can be summed up to the regular and the terminal bonus:

contract.Endow.PP$Values$profitScenarios$`Current total credited rate` %>%
  as.data.frame() %>%
  select(TBFBase, TBFRate, TBFBonusAssignment, regularBonusAssignment, TBF, regularBonus, totalProfit) %>%
  rowid_to_column("t") %>% mutate(t = t - 1) %>%
  pander

t	TBFBase	TBFRate	TBFBonusAssignment	regularBonusAssignment	TBF	regularBonus	totalProfit
0	0.00	0.0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1	121.26	0.3	36.38	84.89	36.38	84.89	121.26
2	141.86	0.3	42.56	99.30	78.94	184.19	263.12
3	162.92	0.3	48.88	114.04	127.81	298.23	426.04
4	184.44	0.3	55.33	129.11	183.14	427.34	610.48
5	206.45	0.3	61.93	144.51	245.08	571.85	816.93
6	228.96	0.3	68.69	160.27	313.77	732.12	1045.89
7	252.01	0.3	75.60	176.40	389.37	908.52	1297.89
8	275.56	0.3	82.67	192.89	472.03	1101.41	1573.45
9	299.56	0.3	89.87	209.69	561.90	1311.11	1873.01
10	323.99	0.3	97.20	226.79	659.10	1537.90	2197.00
11	348.77	0.3	104.63	244.14	763.73	1782.04	2545.77
12	373.86	0.3	112.16	261.70	875.89	2043.74	2919.63
13	399.13	0.3	119.74	279.39	995.63	2323.13	3318.75
14	424.65	0.3	127.39	297.25	1123.02	2620.38	3743.40
15	450.37	0.3	135.11	315.26	1258.13	2935.64	4193.77

The last step in the calculation of a scenario is to calculate the benefits for each of the possible types of payout:

contract.Endow.PP$Values$profitScenarios$`Current total credited rate` %>%
  as.data.frame() %>%
  select(survival, deathAccrued, death, surrenderAccrued, surrender, premiumWaiverAccrued, premiumWaiver) %>%
  rowid_to_column("t") %>% mutate(t = t - 1) %>%
  pander

t	survival	deathAccrued	death	surrenderAccrued	surrender	premiumWaiverAccrued	premiumWaiver
0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
1	121.26	87.01	123.39	85.95	104.14	84.89	103.08
2	263.12	188.79	267.73	186.49	225.96	184.19	223.65
3	426.04	305.68	433.50	301.96	365.86	298.23	362.14
4	610.48	438.02	621.16	432.68	524.25	427.34	518.91
5	816.93	586.15	831.23	579.00	701.54	571.85	694.39
6	1045.89	750.42	1064.19	741.27	898.15	732.12	889.00
7	1297.89	931.24	1320.61	919.88	1114.57	908.52	1103.21
8	1573.45	1128.95	1600.98	1115.18	1351.20	1101.41	1337.43
9	1873.01	1343.88	1905.79	1327.49	1608.45	1311.11	1592.06
10	2197.00	1576.34	2235.44	1557.12	1886.67	1537.90	1867.45
11	2545.77	1826.59	2590.32	1804.31	2186.18	1782.04	2163.90
12	2919.63	2094.83	2970.72	2069.28	2507.23	2043.74	2481.68
13	3318.75	2381.21	3376.83	2352.17	2849.98	2323.13	2820.94
14	3743.40	2685.89	3808.91	2653.14	3214.65	2620.38	3181.89
15	4193.77	3009.03	4267.17	2972.34	3601.40	2935.64	3564.71

One can add as many profit scenarios as desired. Each of the rates in the addProfitScenario-call can also be a vector giving the corresponding rate for each year of the contract:

contract.Endow.PP$
  addProfitScenario(id = "decreasing TCR", guaranteedInterest = 0.005, 
                    interestProfitRate = (15:0)/15 * 0.02, 
                    expenseProfitRate = c(rep(0.01, 5), rep(0.005, 5), rep(0, 6)))

contract.Endow.PP$Values$profitScenarios$`decreasing TCR` %>%
  as.data.frame() %>%
  select(interestBase, expenseBase, interestProfitRate, expenseProfitRate, interestOnProfitRate, interestProfit, expenseProfit, totalProfit) %>%
  rowid_to_column("t") %>% mutate(t = t - 1) %>%
  kable

t	interestBase	expenseBase	interestProfitRate	expenseProfitRate	interestOnProfitRate	interestProfit	expenseProfit	totalProfit
0	0.00000	10000	0.0000000	0.000	0.0000000	0.000000	0	0.0000
1	18.56845	10000	0.0186667	0.010	0.0236667	0.346611	100	121.2400
2	803.01905	10000	0.0173333	0.010	0.0223333	13.918997	100	260.6333
3	1578.39853	10000	0.0160000	0.010	0.0210000	25.254376	100	416.1329
4	2343.76130	10000	0.0146667	0.010	0.0196667	34.375166	100	585.6060
5	3098.03332	10000	0.0133333	0.005	0.0183333	41.307111	50	716.8742
6	3839.92597	10000	0.0120000	0.005	0.0170000	46.079112	50	856.8752
7	4567.84836	10000	0.0106667	0.005	0.0156667	48.723716	50	1003.5258
8	5280.07413	10000	0.0093333	0.005	0.0143333	49.280692	50	1154.6974
9	5975.02268	10000	0.0080000	0.005	0.0130000	47.800181	50	1308.2316
10	6651.23186	10000	0.0066667	0.000	0.0116667	44.341546	0	1411.9740
11	7307.44935	10000	0.0053333	0.000	0.0103333	38.973063	0	1513.2373
12	7942.76663	10000	0.0040000	0.000	0.0090000	31.771066	0	1609.9840
13	8556.80171	10000	0.0026667	0.000	0.0076667	22.818138	0	1700.1463
14	9149.32455	10000	0.0013333	0.000	0.0063333	12.199099	0	1781.8075
15	9720.07684	10000	0.0000000	0.000	0.0050000	0.000000	0	1853.1005

In the Excel export, a separate tab of the Excel file will hold all profit scenarios added to the contract.

`adjustCashFlows`	Adjust the premium and benefit cash flows of the contract
`adjustCashFlowsCosts`	Adjust the cost cash flows
`adjustPremiumCoefficients`	Adjust the coefficients of the premium calculation formulas

	premiums_advance	survival_advance	death_SumInsured
0	1	0	0
1	1	0	0
2	1	0	0
3	1	0	1
4	1	0	1
5	1	0	1
6	1	0	1
7	1	0	1
8	1	0	1
9	1	0	1
10	1	0	1
11	1	0	1
12	1	0	1
13	1	0	1
14	1	0	1
15	0	1	0

	premiums_advance	survival_advance	death_SumInsured
0	1	0	0
1	1	0	0
2	1	0	0
3	1	0	1
4	1	0	1
5	1	0	1
6	1	0	1
7	1	0	1
8	1	0	1
9	1	0	1
10	1	0	1
11	1	0	1
12	1	0	1
13	1	0	1
14	1	0	1
15	0	1	0

Using the LifeInsureR Package

Reinhold Kainhofer

2023-10-27