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Actuarial and Quantitative Risk research asks how to estimate tails honestly with short and changing data, how to represent dependence between perils and regions, how climate should condition pricing, and how models should be validated when the past is a biased sample.

01Workspace

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Evidence grading

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Review queue

  1. R-1Best estimate reservessecond reviewer4 d
  2. R-2Risk marginsecond reviewer1 d
  3. R-3Actual vs expected claimssecond reviewer3 d
Evidence grading.Illustrative interface; not live data.

Actuarial and Quantitative Risk · Evidence grading. Evidence grading: example names and illustrative values, not a record.

02Questions

What the research asks.

  1. 01

    Loss distributions

    Frequency, severity and aggregate loss, and how tails are estimated.

  2. 02

    Extreme value methods

    Tail estimation for hazards, markets and operational losses.

  3. 03

    Climate-adjusted pricing questions

    How non-stationary hazard changes pricing assumptions.

  4. 04

    Credibility and sparse data

    Working where loss history is short or missing.

  5. 05

    Dependence and correlation

    Copulas, contagion and why correlations break in stress.

  6. 06

    Capital and solvency models

    Internal models, standard formulas and their assumptions.

03Agenda

Questions, methods and limits.

QuestionMethodLimit
How uncertain is a 1-in-200 estimate?Extreme value theory with intervalsShort records
How should climate adjust pricing?Trend-adjusted hazard viewsAttribution contested
How should dependence be modelled?Copulas and scenario dependenceTail dependence poorly identified
04Evidence

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