Essay About Whole Operation And High Frequency

Principle Controlling the Cost of Float
Principle controlling the cost of float
Underwriting- what risk to accept
Whole operation before investment income (premiums, claims, loss adjustment expenses)
Evaluate the risk
Data to help remote loss
High frequency, low severity- tail events, black swan
Willing to walk away from business
Limit the business they accept
They ceaselessly search for possible correlation among seemingly unrelated risks
Aggregation of losses and correlation you didn’t expect
3rd is true for everything- don’t do business with bad people
experience versus exposure- most important
explain experience and exposure and provide examples
look at past
experience is starting point for underwriting
d&o- pay when stockholders sue
fewest claims, most exposure
Float- money we hold but don’t own
Premiums are received before losses are paid, an interval that sometimes extends over many years. During this time the insurer invests the money.
The premiums that an insurer takes in usually do not cover the losses and expenses it eventually must pay.
Cost of float-
This leaves is running an “underwriting