We consider evaluation methods for payoffs with an inherent financial risk as
encountered for instance for portfolios held by pension funds and insurance
companies. Pricing such payoffs in a way consistent to market prices typically
involves combining actuarial techniques with methods from mathematical finance.
We propose to extend standard actuarial principles by a new market-consistent
evaluation procedure which we call `two step market evaluation.' This procedure
preserves the structure of standard evaluation techniques and has many other
appealing properties.
Recent theoretical results establish that time-consistent valuations (i.e.
pricing operators) can be created by backward iteration of one-period
valuations. In this paper we investigate the continuous-time limits of
well-known actuarial premium principles when such backward iteration procedures
are applied. We show that the one-period variance premiumprinciple converges to
the non-linear exponential indifference valuation.