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The Valuation of Assets and Liabilities of (Re)Insurance Undertakings Under Solvency II

"The objective of this paper is to discuss the underlying principles and assumptions of valuation under Solvency II and to analyse concepts such as the best estimate and the cost-of-capital risk margin, hedgeable and non-hedgeable risks, market value of risk, as well as economic capital and expected and unexpected losses."

Ensemble distributional forecasting for insurance loss reserving

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"... different loss reserving models specialise in capturing different aspects of loss data. This is recognised in practice in the sense that results from different models are often considered, and sometimes combined. For instance, actuaries may take a weighted average of the prediction outcomes from various loss reserving models, often based on subjective assessments."

Inconsistent Capital Regulation

"Using variation across insurers within the same country, and across countries for the same insurance group, we show that market risk insurance via guaranteed return products is more prevalent in countries with more lax capital requirements. Moreover, we show that the interest rate exposure of insurance companies increased as interest rates declined in recent years, and this effect is more pronounced for companies with a larger share of guaranteed return products. "