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David Ingram
CERA, FRM, PRM
Course Outline
1. INTRODUCTION - Why ERM?
INTRODUCTION
1. INTRODUCTION - Why ERM?
1987 Black Monday Portfolio Insurance implicated in record 1 day fall in stock market
1992 Cadbury (UK) Report urges centralized, comprehensive corporate RM 1993 First CRO named at GE
Barings Controls Missing, mgt didnt understand risks LTCM Models inadequate, overleveraging Northern Rock Excessive Growth
Insurance
Nissan Mutual ALM mismatch, underpricing interest credits Equitable UK underpriced annuities, poor relationship with regulators HIH insurance mispricing, underreserving Confed Life Over-concentration in illiquid investments, shell game
Barings (UK)
Problems
No separation of duties
Problems:
Risk Model was inadequate to predict 1998 international financial problems Counterparties did not know the extant of their full exposure
Problem:
Request for help with liquidity from Bank of England triggered first run on UK bank in over 100 years
Savings product guaranteed high interest rates High sales growth of this product Investment losses & inadequate yield 200 billion net losses covered by Life Association of Japan
Problem:
Equitable (UK)
Problem:
Underpricing & poor Asset Liability matching Poor relationship with regulators lead to company demise rather than workout
HIH (AUS)
Problem:
Problem:
Lack of Diversification, Liquidity Limited oversight from regulators, rating agencies due to accounting gimmicks
Funding agreement product sold to banks and mutual funds with 7day put option Investments were made in 1 to 2 year maturity securities
Problem:
Asset Liability Mismatch High dependency of business on ratings Huge Counterparty exposure
In late 2006, AIG claimed to have $16B of excess capital In early 4th Quarter 2008, AIG needed over $100B of funds from US government to meet obligations
Problem:
Small Financial Products unit has written Trillions of CDS, some on sub prime CDOs MTM losses lead to downgrade which leads to collateral call
Financial WMD
Warren Buffett
Reasons
Insurance Companies in Europe fared much worse with less Risk Mgt
2) Used rigorous internal practices and models, consistent across all business units, to evaluate their risk positions.
3) Coordinated cash planning centrally, avoiding or limiting activities that created large contingent liquidity needs and setting incentives to make such activities unattractive to business unit management. 4) Used multiple risk assessment tools and metrics and generally had very adaptive risk models.
Risk Management is
A.
Setting & enforcing limits for all firm risks that are appropriate for the capital of the firm. Increasing & rewarding activities with superior risk adjusted return and fixing or limiting activities with inferior risk adjusted return. Identifying & preparing for special events that could significantly impair the earnings &\or the solvency of the firm.
B.
C.
Reinsurance cost/benefit
ERM Framework
Change Risk Management
Strategic Value optimization Strategic integration
Risk Controlling
Risk management Loss minimization Compliance Tactical Risk control Balance sheet protection
Risk measurement
Risk Steering
Risk Trading
Risk/return optimization
Value creation
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Scope of ERM
Risk Controlling
Limit exposures and therefore losses ERM adds Aggregate approach to risk tolerance
Risk Trading
Getting paid for risks taken ERM adds consistent approach to risk margins
Risk Steering
Strategic choices to improve value ERM adds risk vs. reward point of view
Potential Benefits
(ICA)
Lower cost of capital.
Insurers Response
The product of a fully-realized ERM Program is the optimization of enterprise risk adjusted return
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Planning Projection
Planning Projection
Confidence Interval
Planning Projection
Confidence Interval
as more insurance companies adopt risk management they will select the better risks companies without RM will not know
Questions
Risk Management has evolved over many years. Learning from Failures. Interest in Risk Mgt is increasing. Risk Management is preventing losses and improving risk adjusted return.