The aim of this paper is to discuss different methods for risk assessment in theGerman automobile industry. We present the traditional approach for classifyingrisks, which is actually applied in the German market, and discuss one crucial difficulty inherent to this approach for proper risk...

Life insurers often claim that the life settlement industry reduces theirsurrender profits and leads to an adverse shift in their portfolio of insuredrisks, i.e., bad risks remain in the portfolio instead of surrendering.In this paper, we aim to quantify the effect of altered...

In this paper, we first discuss the characteristics and major benefits of the Swissrisk-based capital standards for insurance companies (Swiss Solvency Test), introduced in 2006. As the insurance industry is one of the largest institutional investors in Switzerland, changes to its asset and...

Das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis herkömmlicher Rentenversicherungen steigt mitder Lebenserwartung des Versicherten. Derartige Produkte sind damit nur für Personen mit relativ hoher Lebenserwartung attraktiv. Der Nachteil für Versichertemit reduzierter Lebenserwartung wird durch steuerliche...

Annuity contracts transfer the risk of an individual outliving available assets to aninsurance company. Thus, the insurance company has to value and manage longterm risks. Interest rate risk and longevity risk are the two most important risks forannuity providers. In this paper, we develop a...

Common features in life insurance contracts are an interest rate guarantee andpolicyholder participation in the returns of insurers’ reference portfolio, which canbe of substantial value. The aim of this paper is to analyze the model risk involvedin pricing and risk assessment that arises from...

For creating or adjusting credit scoring rules, usually only the accepted applicant’sdata and default information are available. The missing information for therejected applicants and the sorting mechanism of the preceding scoring can leadto a sample selection bias. In other words, mostly...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of capital and risk transfer instruments on diversification and insolvency risk in a parent-subsidiary relationship. To better assess the effects, we compare this setting to the case of a holding company and an integrated financial group. In the...

In financial groups enterprise risk management is becoming increasingly importantin controlling and managing the different independent legal entities in thegroup. The aim of this paper is to assess and relate risk concentration and joint defaultprobabilities of the group’s legal entities in...

Participating life insurance contracts typically contain various types of implicit options. These implicit options can be very valuable and can thus represent a sig-nificant risk to the insurance companies issuing these contracts in case of in-sufficient risk management. Options can get...