Ch 0: Introduction Flashcards

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What makes the ACC “actuarial”?

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The ACC incorporates the following basic elements, which are common to all actuarial and risk management work:

  • The estimation of the financial impact of uncertain future events
  • a long-term rather than a short term time horizon, but decisions to be made in the short term in the light of likely future outcomes
  • consideration of stakeholders (requirements and risk appetite), legislation. regulation, tax and competition
  • The use of assumptions based on appropriate historical experience
  • Monitoring and periodically analyzing the emerging experience in order to update models and strategies
  • The application of professional judgement
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What does the “specifying the problem” stage of the ACC involve?

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  • Setting out clearly the problem from the viewpoint of each stakeholder
  • Assessing and analyzing the risks for each stakeholder
  • Considering the strategic courses of action available to mitigate the particular risks in question
  • In particular, analyzing the options for designing solutions to the problem to transfer risk from one set of stakeholders to another
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What does the “monitoring the experience” stage of the ACC involve?

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  • Analyzing periodically the actual experience against expected
  • Identifying causes of departure from expected experience and determining whether each source is one-off or likely to recur
  • Feeding back into the specifying the problem and developing the solution stages of the ACC
  • Making sure the model is ‘dynamic’ (i.e. assumptions are consistent) and reflects current experience

THE MONITORING OF NEW CONTRACTS OR NEW ELEMENTS OF CONTRACTS SHOULD OCCUR MORE FREQUENTLY.

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List 10 applications of the ACC in actuarial work

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  • Asset-liability management (e.g. setting investment strategy)
  • Monitoring the effects of investment mismatching
  • Considering insurance and reinsurance options
  • Determining the profitability of the contract
  • Considering the need for and calculation of provisions
  • Determining the (current and future) solvency levels
  • Assessing capital requirements
  • Determining premiums / contributions
  • Assumption setting for contract / scheme design
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Outline why the ACC is suitable for use in risk management

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Risk management also involves the following cyclical process:

  • analyzing situations, products and projects to determine the risks to which they are exposed
  • quantifying the financial consequences of the risk events occurring
  • considering and quantifying appropriate methods for managing, mitigating and transferring the risks
  • monitoring the situation and the risk management procedures implemented as time develops
  • modifying or changing the risk management approaches adopted over time, in light of emerging experience
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Key Topics Under the General Commercial and Economic Environment

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ESPERIA, a magical environment far away

  • External environment
  • Stakeholders
  • Providers of benefits
  • Economic Influences
  • Regulation
  • Insurance products
  • Asset Classes
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Key topics in developing the solution

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  • Selecting Appropriate Actuarial Models
  • Appropriate Assumptions
  • Implications for all Stakeholders
  • Determine a Proposed Solution and Alternatives
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Developing the solution

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MODEL CONSTRUCTION
- An examination of the major actuarial models currently in use and how they may be adjusted for the
particular problem to be solved
- Selection of the most appropriate model to use for the problem, or construction of a new model
- Consideration and selection of the assumptions to be used in the model.

MODEL RESULTS
- Interpretation of the results of the modelling process
- Consideration of the implications of the model results
on the overall problem.
- Consideration of the implications of the results for all
stakeholders

SOLUTION

  • determining a proposed solution to the problem
  • consideration of alternative solutions and their effects on the problem
  • formalising a proposal
  • communicating the proposed solution and the alternatives
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Investment risk

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The uncertainty associated with the outcome of making an investment

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Credit risk

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The risk that a person or an organisation will fail to make a payment that they have promised

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Market risk

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Risks related to changes in investment market values

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Inflation risk

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Risk of real liabilities being larger than anticipated due to inflation.

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Underwriting risk

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Risk of failures in underwriting leading the insurer to take on risks at an inadequate price.

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Insurance risk

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Risk of more claims being made than expected

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Exposure risk

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Risk of more claims arising from a particular event due to the insurer having greater exposure to a particular peril than had been appreciated.
Might be due to inadequate diversification within the portfolio of business written.

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Finance risk

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Risk of not being able to obtain finance when required or not being able to obtain it at the anticipated cost.

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Possible solutions to mitigate risks

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  • avoiding
  • accepting and minimizing
  • sharing
  • transferring risk together with ongoing monitoring.