Description
Book SynopsisBased on the syllabus of the actuarial profession courses on general insurance pricing â with additional material inspired by the authorâs own experience as a practitioner and lecturer â Pricing in General Insurance, Second Edition presents pricing as a formalised process that starts with collecting information about a particular policyholder or risk and ends with a commercially informed rate.
The first edition of the book proved very popular among students and practitioners with its pragmatic approach, informal style, and wide-ranging selection of topics, including:
- Background and context for pricing
- Process of experience rating, ranging from traditional approaches (burning cost analysis) to more modern approaches (stochastic modelling)
- Exposure rating for both property and casualty products
- Specialised techniques for personal lines (e.g., GLMs), reinsurance, and specific products such as credit risk and weathe
Table of Contents
1.The Pricing Process: A Gentle Start. 2. Insurance and Reinsurance Products. 3.The Cover Structure.4. The Insurance Markets. 5. Pricing in Context. 6. The Scientific Basis for Pricing: Risk Theory. 7. Familiarise Yourself with the Risk. 8. Data Requirements for Pricing. 9. Setting the Loss Inflation Assumptions. 10. Data Preparation. 11. The Burning Cost Approach. 12. What Is This Thing Called Modelling? A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning. 13. Frequency Modelling: Adjusting for Claim Count IBNR. 14. Frequency Modelling: Selecting and Calibrating a Frequency Model. 15. Severity Modelling: Adjusting for IBNER and Other Factors. 16. Severity Modelling: Selecting and Calibrating a Severity Model. 17. Aggregate Loss Modelling. 18. Identifying, Measuring, and Communicating Uncertanity. 19. Setting the Premium. 20. The Pricing Cycle and Rate Change Calculations. 21. Experience Rating for Non-Proportional Reinsurance. 22. Exposure Rating for Property Insurance. 23. Liability Rating Using Increased Limit Factor Curves. 24. Pricing Considerations for Specific Lines of Business. 25. Catastrophe Modelling in Pricing. 26. Credibilty Theory. 27. Rating Factor Selection and Calibration: GLMs, GAMs, and Regularisation. 28. Multilevel Factors and Smoothing. 29. Pricing Multiple Lines of Business and Risks. 30. Insurance Structure Optimisation. 31. An Introduction to Pricing Models.
