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RBC Flashcards

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Risk based capital system (RBC)

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tool to help provide early warning of potential impending insurer insolvency

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RBC formula

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calc min level of capital that insurer should hold based on risks to which it is exposed; output feeds RBC ratio = actual capital/required capital

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RBC model act for insurers

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provides state regulator authority to take action if RBC ratio falls below threshold level

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RBC formula applies specific factors to

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certain risks to which insurer is exposed and P&C consists or asset risk, UW risk, and covariance adj

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Asset Risk

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-Risk that assets lose value

R0 Subsidiary insurers: default risk from investments in these companies

-off-balance sheet risk

R1 Fixed income: impact of changing interest rates on valuation and default risk

R2 Equity: change in valuation

R3 Credit

  • risk that counterparties such as reinsurers will not pay as expected
  • asset charge is smaller portion of total risk charge compared to portion for life industry because P&C invest in short-term, relatively liquid investments
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UW Risk

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-risk that prem will be insufficient to cover loss and expense and that reserves may develop adversely

R4 Reserve risk: risk that reserves will develop adversely assuming current values are adequate

R5 Net WP risk: risk that following year’s business will be unprofitable

-predominant portion of RBC charge

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Covariance Adjustment

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-name of formula used to calc RBC need; aggregates each or risk components

RBC = R0+( R1^2+ R2^2+ R3^2+ R4^2+ R5^2)^0.5

-reflects diversification among risks; assumption that they are independent except R0 because assumed directly correlated with aggregate risks of insurer

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Excluded risks

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business plan & strategy, management, internal controls, systems, reserve adequacy, ability to access capital bc too difficult to quantify

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carrying value

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value @ which item is recorded on BS

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R0 charge depends on

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asset class, type of subsidiary, and whether subsidiary is subject to RBC

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R0 covers risk from

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investments in insurance sub, investments in alien ins company affiliates, off-balance sheet items

-only includes charges for investments in subsidiaries that are subject to RBC requirements

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R0 Common stock investment

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charge depends on accting method used to record investment in subsidiary

-market value approach = based on market value adj for ownership %

RBC=min(aff RBC, statutory surplus)*ownership%

-equity method = investment based on statutory equity adj for unamortized goodwill and adj for ownership -> carrying value is initially the cost and then adj based on income

RBC=min(aff RBC ownership%, book/adj carrying value of stock)

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R0 Preferred stock investment

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charge only generated if there is excess RBC RBC (total affiliate RBC after cov adj in excess value of stocks)

RBC = min(pro rata share of excess RBC, book/adj carrying value of preferred stock)

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R0 Bond investment

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charge only generated if there is excess RBC (in excess of total value of stocks & preferred stocks)

RBC = min(pro rata share of excess RBC, book/adj carrying value of bonds)

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R0 Investments in alien insurance affiliates

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not subject to RBC requirements

  • for directly owned: RBC= book/adj carrying value*0.5
  • for indirectly owned: RBC= carrying value*0.5
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R0 Off-balance sheet & other

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not included in financials but still are assets/potential liab so expose insurer to risk

  • Non-controlled assets, contingent liab, guarantees for benefit of affiliates
  • 1% charge factor applied to these items
  • 0.2% for securities lending programs that conform to certain rules that lower risk
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R1 reflects & general approach

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reflects interest rate & default risk from fixed income instruments

-factors provided by NAIC are applied to book/adj carrying value of assets with 2 adj to reflect amount of diversification: bond size factor and asset concentration factor

bond charge = factor of asset * book/adj carrying value

R1 = bond charge + bond size charge + asset concentration charge

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things that are subject to 0.225 in R0

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Holding company: RBC = 0.225*(holding co value – carrying value of indirectly owned ins companies)

Upstream affiliate: RBC = 0.225*carrying value of bonds

Ins subsidiaries not subject to RBC: RBC = 0.225*book/adj carrying value of bonds

Other non-ins subsidiaries: RBC = 0.225*book/adj carrying value of bonds

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Investment affiliate

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entity that exists only to invest funds of parent, RBC same if insurer owned investments directly

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R1 Unaffiliated bonds & bond size factor

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RBC = RBC charge*book/adj carrying value of bonds

  • RBC charge based on cash flow modeling that used historical default statistics for each class of bond
  • bond size factor is also applied: reflects amount of diversification; measured based on # of issuers of bonds

Factor = weighted issuers/issuers -1

  • 1st 50 issuers = 250%, next 50 130%, next 300 100%, rest 90%
  • if over 1300 issuers, adj = 0

bond size charge = factor*bond charge

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R1 Mortgage loans

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RBC = 0.05*book/adj carrying value of loans

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R1 Misc Assets

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RBC = factor*book/adj carrying value of assets (excess of amounts considered elsewhere in RBC fomula)

-0.003 for cash & short term and 0.05 for admitted collateral loans

23
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US gov guaranteed bonds have factor

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0

24
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Replication transactions

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  • RSATs are derivative transactions that are made in combo with other investments in order to replicate investment char of certain investment
  • derivatives used to hedge/mitigate risk, generate income, and replicate asset that cannot be purchased bc unavail or too $$

RBC = factor of equiv investment*AS value (schedule DB)

-charge is reduced for amnt of charge already been applied to the cash instrument to avoid double counting

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mandatory convertible

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securities which are mandatorily convertible at specified prices

RBC = max(0,charge for converted security-charge for original security)

26
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charge from replication transactions and mandatorily convertible securities is distributed to

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both R1 and R2 (50%) bc assuming ½ of securities involved are debt and ½ equity

27
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Asset concentration only based and assets subject in R1

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top 10 issuers (based on total investment in fixed income and equity) and uses same factor as bond charge

bonds in top 10 * RBC bond factor

assets subject = unaffiliated bonds class 2-5, collateral loans, mortgage loans

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R2 reflects & general formula

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risk from equity investments

R2 = stock charge + asset concentration

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R2 Holding company/certain affiliates/off-balance sheet collateral

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RBC = factor*book/adj carrying value of stocks

30
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R2 Replication transactions/mandatory convertible securities

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RBC = ½ of charge derived in R1 calc

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R2 Unaffiliated common stock

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RBC=0.15*book/adj carrying value of stock

-non-gov money market funds are incl but use 0.003

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R2 Preferred stock

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RBC=factor*book/adj carrying value of preferred stock

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R2 Real estate, schedule BA, misc assets

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RBC = factor*book value of investment

34
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R3 covers & generated from

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2 aspects of credit risk = counterparty will default and risk associated with estimating amnts due

-generated from non-invested assets, reinsurance recoverable, health credit risk

35
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R3 Non-invested assets

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RBC = 0.05*net admitted value

-investment income and accrued uses 0.01 bc mostly comes from bonds so gets factor of unaffiliated class 2 bonds

36
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Reinsurance recoverables

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RBC = 0.1*reinsurance recoverable

  • recoverable taken from sched F and have been reduced by prov for reins (credit must be reduced by prov generated from exceptions below)
  • charge covers risk that reinsurers are unwilling or unable to pay amounts due and excludes cessions to US parents, subsid & aff, state mandated invol pools&assoc, federal insurance programs

Recoverable = (reinsurer share of paid – paid by reinsurer)+reinsurer share of unpaid

37
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why 10% critizied for resinurance recoverables

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does not differentiate by reinsurer strength or whether recoverables have been collateralized but charge remains due to need to be conservative when reins is involved (uncollectible balances have historically been responsible for several ins failures and reins has been used to overstate surplus/hide results)

38
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how reinsurance recoverable is split between R3 and R4

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  • RBC charge has been split equally btw R3 and R4 unless Reserve RBC < credit risk RBC for non-invested assets + 0.5*RBC for reins recoverables in which it is totally allocated to R3
  • above is to avoid reducing credit risk when insurer has min net reserves
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R3 Health credit risk

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charge for firms that write accident and health where prem > 5% of total prem in any of last 3 yrs

  • generated by insurers that transfer health risk to health care orgs
  • credit risk of non-payment exists; factor applied to uncollateralized portion of recoverables; charge to insurance industry in 2011 was 0

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