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How Long the Insurance Period of Life Insurance should Be

Changshun Hou

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While purchasing life insurance, the insured should make a decision that how long the insurance period should be. The objective function is the sum of income expectation and risk. Given age and safety loading, we study that which insurance period make sure that the objective function arrival its maximum. And with help of numerical computation, the relation of age and insurance period is studied.

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While purchasing life insurance, the insured should make a decision that how long the insurance period should be. The objective function is the sum of income expectation and risk. Given age and safety loading, we study that which insurance period make sure that the objective function arrival its maximum. And with help of numerical computation, the relation of age and insurance period is studied.

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While purchasing life insurance, the insured should make a decision that how long the insurance period should be. The objective function is the sum of income expectation and risk. Given age and safety loading, we study that which insurance period make sure that the objective function arrival its maximum. And with help of numerical computation, the relation of age and insurance period is studied.

Key concepts: Life insurance, Actuarial science, Business interruption insurance, Casualty insurance, Insurance policy, Period (music), Auto insurance risk selection, Purchasing

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