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Reflecting the author’s wealth of experience in this filed. Handbook of Solvency for Actuaries and Risk Managers: Theory and Practice focuses on the valuation of assets and liabilities the calculation of capital requirement, and the calculation of the standard formula for the Europen Solvency II project
The first three sections of the book examine the solvency concept, historical development, and the role of solvency in an enterprise risk management approach. The text provides a general discussion on valuation, investment, and capital, along with modeling and measuring. It also covers dependence, risk measures, capital requirements, subrisks, aggregation, the main risks market, and credit, operational, liquidity, and underwriting risks.
The last three sections focus on the European Solvency II project. Basing the material on CEIOPS’ final advice, the author presents the general ideas, valuation, investments, and funds of this project as well as the standard formula framework. He also includes calibrations from previous quantitative impact studies and discusses the political progress of the project.
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