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The collective reserving model

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  • Wahl, Felix
  • Lindholm, Mathias
  • Verrall, Richard

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This paper sets out a model for analysing claims development data, which we call the collective reserving model (CRM). The model is defined on the individual claim level and it produces separate IBNR and RBNS reserve estimators at the collective level without using any approximations. The CRM is based on ideas from a paper by Verrall, Nielsen and Jessen (VNJ) from 2010 in which a model is proposed that relies on a claim giving rise to a single payment. This is generalised by the CRM to the case of multiple payments per claim. All predictors of outstanding claims payments for the VNJ model are shown to hold for this new model. Moreover, the quasi-Poisson GLM estimation framework will be applicable as well, but without using an approximation. Furthermore, analytical expressions for the variance of the total outstanding claims payments are given, with a subdivision on IBNR and RBNS claims. To quantify the effect of allowing only one payment per claim, the model is related and compared to the VNJ model, in particular by looking at variance inequalities. The double chain ladder (DCL) method is discussed as an estimation method for this new model and it is shown that both the GLM- and DCL-based estimators are consistent in terms of an exposure measure. Lastly, both of these methods are shown to asymptotically reproduce the regular chain ladder reserve estimator when restricting predictions to the lower right triangle without the tail, motivating the chain ladder technique as a large-exposure approximation of this model.

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  • Wahl, Felix & Lindholm, Mathias & Verrall, Richard, 2019. "The collective reserving model," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 34-50.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:insuma:v:87:y:2019:i:c:p:34-50
    DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2019.04.003
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