capital consumption don mango american re-insurance 2003 cas ratemaking seminar
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Capital Consumption
Don MangoAmerican Re-Insurance2003 CAS Ratemaking Seminar
Goals for Today Get you to admit this is a valid
alternative framework (albeit orthogonal) to capital allocation / release / IRR
Given it’s a possibility, demonstrate how it can be practically implemented as a means of pricing reinsurance
Two Bets Bet #1
You pay me $10 now I might pay you $50 later
Bet #2 I pay you $10 now You might have to pay me $50 later
Payoff DiagramsBet #1
-20
-10
0
10
20
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40
50
60
Now Later
Bet #2
-60
-50
-40
-30
-20
-10
0
10
20
Now Later
Bet #1Spend then Maybe Receive You spend now, hope to receive
later You spend NOW, voluntarily With the odds I give you, you can
compute an expected value and decide if you want to make the bet
Bet #2Receive then Maybe Spend You receive now, hope you don’t
have to spend later You MAY spend LATER, involuntarily With the odds I give you, you can
compute an expected value and decide if you want to make the bet
Capital? Bet #1 = $10
You spend $10 capital NOW no matter what
The capital investment is current and certain – i.e., not contingent
Allocated = spent
Capital? Bet #2 = $???
I should be sure you have $40 available LATER, but you don’t spend anything NOW
If Bet #2 hits, you spend $40 capital LATER
Capital expenditure (= allocation) is contingent and in the future
Allocation vs Consumption
Two different but equally valid frameworks for Treating capital Evaluating insurance business
segments Developing indicated prices for
reinsurance Nearly orthogonal
Allocation vs Consumption Four questions:1. What do you do with the total capital?2. How do you evaluate business
segments?3. What does it mean to be in a portfolio?4. How is relative risk contribution
reflected?
Allocation vs ConsumptionQuestion 1: What happens to the total capital?
Allocation Consumption Divided up among the
segments. Either by explicit
allocation, or assignment of the marginal change in the total capital requirement from adding the segment to the remaining portfolio
Left intact Each segment has the right
to “call” upon the total capital to pay its operating deficits or shortfalls
Allocation vs ConsumptionQuestion 2: How are the segments evaluated?
Allocation Consumption Give the allocations to
each segment Evaluate each segment’s
return on their allocated capital
Must clear their hurdle rate
Give each segment “access rights” to the entire capital
Evaluate each segment’s potential calls (both likelihood and magnitude) on the total capital
Must pay for the likelihood and magnitude of their potential calls
Allocation vs ConsumptionQuestion 3: What does being in a portfolio mean?
Allocation Consumption Being standalone with
less capital But still having access to
all the capital if necessary, although it is unclear how this is reflected
Being standalone with potential access to all the capital
But all other segments have similar access rights
This is THE CRITICAL SLIDE!
Allocation vs ConsumptionQuestion 4: How is relative risk contribution reflected?
Allocation Consumption Use a single risk measure
to determine required capital
Select a dependence structure for the aggregation of segment distributions into a portfolio aggregate distribution
The marginal impact of adding a segment to the remaining portfolio is that segment’s risk contribution
Use scenario-level detail generated by stochastic modeling
Use explicit risk-return evaluation via utility function
Segment’s risk contribution is determined at the scenario level, then aggregated over all scenarios
Details of the Framework Scenario analysis Default-free discounting Scenario-level capital consumption Evaluation of capital consumption
using a “quasi~utility” approach
Default-Free Discounting Conditional on its occurrence, a given
scenario’s outcome is certain discount at the default-free rate
Risk-adjusted discounting is too clumsy Overloaded operator Try splitting out default probability from price of risk
in risky debt spreads Reflect uncertainty between scenarios, not
within What is uncertainty within a scenario anyway?
Do you believe the scenario is possible or not?
Scenario Capital Consumption Experience fund
From Finite Reinsurance Fund into which goes all revenue, from
which comes all payments Bakes in investment income
When it drops below zero, and further payments need to be made, gotta “call the parents” for some capital
That capital is spent CONSUMED
Experience Fund Long-Tailed LOB
Example 1Experience Fund for Long-tailed Contract120% Loss Ratio Scenario
Probability 10.0%
Investment Rate 8.0% Loss Ratio 116.2%Ultimate
Loss 120,000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Time
Beginning Fund
Balance Premiums ExpensesPayment
PatternPaid
LossesInvestment
IncomeEnding Fund
BalanceCapital
Call0 -$ 103,305$ 15,000$ 0.0% -$ -$ 88,305$ -$ 1 88,305$ -$ -$ 50.0% 60,000$ 2,264$ 30,570$ -$ 2 30,570$ -$ -$ 25.0% 30,000$ 46$ 615$ -$ 3 615$ -$ -$ 12.0% 14,400$ -$ (13,785)$ 13,785$ 4 -$ -$ -$ 6.0% 7,200$ -$ (7,200)$ 7,200$ 5 -$ -$ -$ 4.0% 4,800$ -$ (4,800)$ 4,800$ 6 -$ -$ -$ 2.0% 2,400$ -$ (2,400)$ 2,400$ 7 -$ -$ -$ 1.0% 1,200$ -$ (1,200)$ 1,200$ 8 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$ 9 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$
10 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$
TOTAL 103,305$ 15,000$ 100.0% 120,000$ -$ 29,385$ NPV 103,305$ 15,000$ 86.2% 103,479$ 21,714$
Experience FundShort-Tailed LOB
Example 1AExperience Fund for Short-tailed Contract120% Loss Ratio Scenario
Investment Rate 8.0% Loss Ratio 120.0%Ultimate
Loss 120,000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Time
Beginning Fund
Balance Premiums ExpensesPayment
PatternPaid
LossesInvestment
IncomeEnding Fund
BalanceCapital
Call0 -$ 100,000$ 15,000$ 0.0% -$ -$ 85,000$ -$ 1 85,000$ -$ -$ 80.0% 96,000$ -$ (11,000)$ 11,000$ 2 -$ -$ -$ 15.0% 18,000$ -$ (18,000)$ 18,000$ 3 -$ -$ -$ 5.0% 6,000$ -$ (6,000)$ 6,000$ 4 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$ 5 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$ 6 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$ 7 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$ 8 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$ 9 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$
10 -$ -$ -$ 0.0% -$ -$ -$ -$
TOTAL 100,000$ 15,000$ 100.0% 120,000$ 35,000$ NPV 100,000$ 15,000$ 90.9% 109,084$ 30,380$
Chart 1: Capital Consumption Profile Over TimeShort versus Long Tail with 120% Loss Ratio
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Short TailLong Tail
Capital Calls (Philbrick/Painter) The entire surplus is available to every
policy to pay losses in excess of the aggregate loss component.
We can envision an insurance company instituting a charge for the access to the surplus.
This charge should depend, not just on the likelihood that surplus might be needed, but on the amount of such a surplus call.
Capital Calls (Philbrick/Painter) We can think of a capital allocation method as
determining a charge to each line of business that is dependant on the need to access the surplus account.
Conceptually, we might want to allocate a specific cost to each line for the right to access the surplus account.
In practice though, we tend to express it by allocating a portion of surplus to the line, and then requiring that the line earn (on average) an adequate return on surplus.
Capital Call Cost Function Risk-based overhead expense loading Pricing decision variable Application of utility theory Borch (1961):
To introduce a utility function which the company seeks to maximize, means only that such consistency requirements (in the various subjective judgements made by an insurance company) are put into mathematical form.
Capital Call Cost Function Make the implicit explicit Express your preferences explicitly, in
mathematical form, and apply them via a utility function
The mythical Risk Appetite Enforce consistency in the many
judgments being made
Implicit Preferences Preferences buried in Kreps’ “Marginal
Standard Deviation” risk load approach: The marginal impact on the portfolio
standard deviation is our chosen functional form for transforming a given distribution of outcomes to a single risk measure.
Risk is completely reflected, properly measured and valued by this transform.
Upward deviations are treated the same as downward deviations.
Property Cat ExampleExample 4Property Catastrophe Contract
Premium 1,000,000$ Limit 10,000,000$
No Loss Scenario Loss ScenarioProbability 98.0% 2.0%Premiums 1,000,000$ 1,000,000$ Expenses -$ -$
Losses -$ 10,000,000$ Capital Call Amount -$ 9,000,000$
Capital Call Factor 0.0% 400.0%Capital Call Charge -$ 36,000,000$
Expected NPV 800,000$ Expected Capital Call Cost 720,000$
Expected Risk-adjusted NPV 80,000$
Property Cat Example How would you do this with capital allocation? Allocate a percentage of the limit – say 5% --
based on marginal portfolio capital requirements?
What does that mean? What happens if the event occurs? Where does the money to pay the claim come from?
Does the sum of the marginals add up to the company’s total capital? If not, what does it mean?
Building Bridges Pricing via probability measure change –
from voluminous capital markets literature
Utility theory in pricing – from Halliwell, Heyer and Schnapp
The Wang Transform – from Wang The market cost of risk – from Van Slyke Additive Co-Measures – from Kreps
Final Thought:
This actually IS capital allocation for insurance, done right
And now…FIRE AWAY !