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      Signs of dependence and heavy tails in non-life insurance data

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          In this paper we study data from the yearly reports the four major Swedish non-life insurers have sent to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA). We aim at finding marginal distributions of, and dependence between, losses on the five largest lines of business (LoBs) in order to create models for Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) calculation. We try to use data in an optimal way by sensibly defining an accounting year loss in terms of actuarial liability predictions, and by pooling observations from several companies when possible to decrease the uncertainty about the underlying distributions and their parameters. We find that dependence between LoBs is weaker in our data than what is assumed in the Solvency II standard formula. We also find dependence between companies that may affect financial stability, and must be taken into account when estimating loss distribution parameters. Moreover, we discuss under what circumstances an insurer is better (or worse) off using an internal model for SCR calculation instead of the standard formula.

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          2015-01-05
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          1501.00833
          cc53e851-5c3c-4392-8956-be8d2f03bd60

          http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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          16 pages
          q-fin.RM

          Risk management
          Risk management

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