Exam 7 — Estimation of Policy Liabilities, Insurance Company Valuation & ERM
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Mack assumptions , , accident years independent.
Mack variance estimate
Brosius least squares ; credibility form .
Clark Weibull growth ; loglogistic .
ODP bootstrap scale , .
Cost-of-capital risk margin .
Traps to remember
Including the diagonal element in the count of parameters for ODP bootstrap degrees of freedom incorrectly ( for an triangle).
Forgetting the tail's contribution to Mack's mse when a tail factor is used.
Confusing process variance (inherent randomness) with parameter variance (estimation error).
Applying a cost-of-capital margin to the run-off of capital rather than to the capital held each year.