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The Balance Property: The Constrained Case, with a View on Risk Sharing

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The balance property is an important property of fitted statistical models deployed for insurance pricing. It guarantees that the total actuarial price in the fitted model is equal to the totally observed loss used to fit the model. This can be seen as an in-sample global unbiasedness property. Maximum likelihood fitted generalized linear models (GLMs) with canonical links automatically fulfill the balance property. Lindholm-W\"uthrich (Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2026) discussed two popular balance correction methods in case the balance property fails to hold. This note extends this discussion with a third method, constrained GLM fitting, that turns out to be superior over the two previously discussed ones. Moreover, we highlight the connection between the balance property and ex-post risk sharing rules.

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  • Mario V. Wuthrich, 2026. "The Balance Property: The Constrained Case, with a View on Risk Sharing," Papers 2606.07276, arXiv.org.
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