Description: Full version of International Section News, June 2003, Issue No. 30.

Description: Presidential Musings by Harry Panjer from International Section News, June 2003, Issue No. 30.

Description: This paper addresses the allocation of solvency capital in multi- line financial businesses. Although this paper is uniformly applicable to financial enterprises of all types, the terminology in the paper is mainly that of insurance. The TailVaR risk measure is extended in a natural way to allocating capital to each of the business units. This method of allocation allocates capital in a way that is invariant over the method of decomposing the enterprise into business units. Analytic results are derived in the case of multivariate Normal risks. The key result of this paper is that the TailVaR-based proportional allocation of total required capital is identical to that based on mean-variance considerations analogous to the CAPM in the case of the multivariate Normaldistribution.

Description: Full version of The Actuary Newsletter Volume 37, Number 8 - October 2003

Description: These two research reports, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA} ‘Research Projects – Finance/Investment,’ are the result of a Call for Papers sponsored by the SOA Committee on Finance Research [CFR] on the topic of IntraCompany Capital Allocation. Both were awarded honoraria. The two are: ‘Measurement of Risk, Solvency Requirements and Allocation of Capital within Financial Conglomerates,’ which addresses the allocation of solvency capital in multi- line financial businesses and ‘Allocation of Required Capital by Line of Business,’ which demonstrates how the NAIC Risk-Based Capital [RBC] formula and others can be allocated by line of business by the use of partial derivatives of RBC.

Description: Harry Panjer discusses the growth of the Risk Management Section and its importance within the SOA.