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Insurance A: Solvency and Reinsurance - FREG860
This unit examines the principles of solvency regimes that apply to insurance companies and describes the importance of provisioning practices used to account for future losses. It also describes the risk measurement and management practices and outlines the solvency stress tests. It describes the role of reinsurance in the insurance industry, outlines the different types of reinsurance currently available and how these are used by insurance companies to mitigate extreme risks. It describes approaches taken by regulators to monitor, supervise and assess the levels of risk retention in insurance companies and the approaches taken to regulating and supervising reinsurance companies.
| Credit Points: | 2 |
| When Offered: | 2013 - Next offered in 2013 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Robert Trevor |
| Prerequisites: |
Admission to MFinReg |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies Faculty of Business and Economics |
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