TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gurenko,Eugene N.
AU  - Gurenko,Eugene N.
AU  - Itigin,Alexander
TI  - Reinsurance as Capital Optimization Tool under Solvency II
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Banking Law
KW  - Capital Requirement
KW  - Debt Markets
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Hazard Risk Management
KW  - Insurance & Risk Mitigation
KW  - Insurance Law
KW  - Insurance Portfolio
KW  - Non-Life
KW  - Private Sector Development
KW  - Reinsurance
KW  - Risk Management
KW  - Solvency I
KW  - Solvency II
N2  - This paper compares solvency capital requirements under Solvency I and Solvency II for a sample mid-size insurance portfolio. According to the results of a study, changing the solvency capital regime from Solvency I to Solvency II will lead to a substantial additional solvency capital requirement that might represent a heavy burden for the company's shareholders. One way to reduce the capital requirement under Solvency II is to increase reinsurance protection, which will reduce the net retained risk exposure and hence also the solvency capital requirement. Therefore, this paper proposes an extended reinsurance structure that, under Solvency II, brings the capital requirement back to the level of that required under Solvency I. In a step-by-step approach, the paper demonstrates the extent of solvency relief attained by the insurer by applying different possible adjustments in the reinsurance structure. To evaluate the efficiency of reinsurance as the solvency capital relief instrument, the authors introduce a cost-of-capital based approach, which puts the achieved capital relief in relation to the costs of extending the reinsurance protection. This approach allows a direct comparison of reinsurance as a capital relief instrument with debt instruments available in the capital market. With the help of the introduced approach, the authors show that the best capital relief efficiency under all examined reinsurance alternatives is achieved when a financial quota share contract is chosen for proportional reinsurance
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6306
ER  -