Insurance Reserve Prediction: Opportunities and Challenges

Ayman Taha, Bernard Cosgrave, Wael Rashwan, Susan McKeever

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Abstract

Predicting claims' reserve is a critical challenge for insurers and has dramatic consequences on their managerial, financial and underwriting decisions. The insurers' capital and their underwriting capacity of further business are impacted by inaccurate reserve estimates. Increasing premium rates and adjusting the underwriting policy decisions may balance the impact of unexpected claims, but will have a negative impact on their business opportunities. To address this, several papers focusing on the prediction of insurance reserve have been published in the literature. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of the research on the insurance reserve prediction techniques in economics and actuarial science literature as well as machine learning and computer science literature. Moreover, we classify these techniques into different approaches based on the prediction mechanism they use in estimation. For each approach, we survey reserve prediction methods, and then show the similarities and differences among them. In addition, the review is armed with a discussion on the challenges and the future opportunities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages290-295
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665458412
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021
Event2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2021 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: 15 Dec 202117 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2021

Conference

Conference2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period15/12/2117/12/21

Keywords

  • Actuarial chain ladder
  • Insurance data analytics
  • Loss estimation
  • Reserve prediction
  • Stochastic methods

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