From: Aurelien.COSMA@acp.banque-france.fr
Sent: 30 March 2012 15:06
To: Alexandros Ntelekos; Sejal Haria; peter.ter.berg@dnb.nl; cookiz@willis.com; Helen.Bradley@guycarp.com; Anthony Brown; Geoff.Brown@bupa.com; alan_lockie@swissre.com; Trevor.Maynard@lloyds.com
Cc: Marjan.Trobina@eiopa.europa.eu; Daniel.Perez@eiopa.europa.eu; Romain Labaune; Nikolaos Petalas; Zulfiya Samieva; H.J.G.Hendriks@DNB.NL; Laurent.VOIGNAC@acp.banque-france.fr; Olaf.Ermert@bafin.de
Subject: RE: CATsg - Catastrophe templates workgroup

Dear Alex, dear all,

 

Here are a couple of tentative comments on the “health” part of the CAT template.

 

General comments

-          The general structure of the template supposes that the net capital charge equals the gross capital charge + effects of risk mitigation. Although I agree that this information is useful, I’m afraid that such labels might be misleading, as the “net capital requirement” is generally understood as “net of the LAC of TP and DT” (and not “net of risk mitigation”). Therefore I suggest that the relevant columns are labeled “gross SCR before risk mitigation” and “gross SCR after risk mitigation”, in order to avoid any confusion.

-          Concerning the diversification effect between countries, may I suggest that:

o   The total capital charge before diversification remains as it is

o   The total capital charge after diversification is either filled in by the undertaking, or calculated using the square root of sum of squares formula

o   The diversification effect is calculated as the difference between “capital charge after diversification” and “capital charge before diversification”

 

Comments concerning the “mass accident” table

-          May I suggest to replace (in all relevant columns) “value of benefits payable” by “total value of benefits payable” (just for clarity)

 

Comments concerning the “pandemic” table

-          The separation between “income protection” and “medical expense” could be made clearer. For instance, may I suggest that we have:

o   two columns “income protection | number of insured people” and “income protection | total pandemic exposure” on the one hand (same scheme as for each risk of the “mass accident” scenario)

o   seven columns on the other hand for medical expense

§  “medical expense | number of insured people”

§  “medical expense | unit claim cost hospitalisation”

§  “medical expense | expected number of uses hospitalisation”

§  “medical expense | unit claim cost medical practitioner”

§  “medical expense | expected number of uses medical practitioner”

§  “medical expense | unit claim cost no formal medical care”

§  “medical expense | expected number of uses no formal medical care”

-          In the last L2 text, no diversification is foreseen between countries (the capital charge is a mere sum on all countries). Therefore I would suggest to delete the lines on “diversification”.

 

Kind regards,

 

Aurélien

 

De : Alexandros Ntelekos [mailto:Alexandros.Ntelekos@fsa.gov.uk]
Envoyé : lundi 26 mars 2012 18:26
À :
Sejal Haria; Peter Ter Berg (DNB); Cook, Ian; Helen Bradley (Guy Carpenter); Anthony Brown; COSMA Aurélien (UA 2774); BROWN, Geoff; alan_lockie@swissre.com; Maynard, Trevor
Cc : Marjan Trobina; Daniel.Perez@eiopa.europa.eu; Romain Labaune; Nikolaos Petalas; Zulfiya Samieva; H.J.G.Hendriks@DNB.NL; VOIGNAC Laurent (UA 2776); Olaf Ermert
Objet : CATsg - Catastrophe templates workgroup
Importance : Haute

 

Dear CATsg members,

 

I am contacting you once more to ask for your contributions on an issue that EIOPA and the SCRsg has requested that we have a look at: The catastrophe reporting templates. I have already mentioned this at our last meeting but I now can be more concrete on what is required from us.

 

The catastrophe reporting template is effectively an excel spreadsheet along with an explanatory document that undertakings will use to report their SF results to supervisors.

 

Harold (cc'd above, H.J.G.Hendriks@DNB.NL) has already done a magnificent job in putting this template together. The template has been through public consultation with the industry and comments have been received. The SGRsg has discussed these comments and is now asking the CATsg to have a look at the template and at the comments and to provide feedback on the template.

 

Following some discussions with colleagues I have decided to put together a workgroup to have a look at this issue with a view to discuss and close in the May meeting of the CATsg in London. If you are in the to list of this email you are a member of this group and I would like to ask for your contribution.  

 

This should be a relatively straightforward exercise: All we need is for everyone to look at the relevant part of the template (e.g. Ian at the nat-cats, Helen on liability, Geoff-Alan-Aurelien at the health, etc) and the Log (see below), see whether they are happy with the information requested (clarity, granularity etc) and the relevant description in the log and then contrast with the high level comments received from stakeholders. You should then send any comments to Sejal who will be leading this group and will collect the comments prior to the next meeting. I am keen on circulating any comments of the workgroup and the templates to the wider group as soon as possible so I would ask Sejal to pass these to me at least a coupe of weeks prior to the next meeting.

 

I am attaching here three documents:

 

1. The actual catastrophe non-life template (spreadsheet)

2. The consultation Log (a key for each cell mentioned under each sub-module in the template)

3. The highlighted issues from the public consultation process (high level comments from stakeholders)

 

If you have any questions about the template please feel free to contact Harold or myself.

 

Kind regards,

 

Alex

Alex Ntelekos, Ph.D.
General Insurance Department
Risk Specialists Division

The Financial Services Authority
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