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Valuation of a Catastrophe Insurance Futures Contract Using Compound Poisson Claim Assumptions

insureds to report losses to the insurance companies (and for the insurance companies to report the losses ... and September, 1993. The ISO allowed insurers to report claims resulting from these events up to the ...
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Description: In 1993, the Chicago Board of Trade introduced a futures contract on a financial index that reflects the insurance claims emerging from catastrophes in a portfolio of policies. This article presents a valuation formula for the contract, under the assumption that catastrophes emerge as a Poisson process over time and that the claims from each catastrophe emerge as a Compound Poisson process. The formula is developed by taking conditional expectations with respect to a history of information that includes knowledge about the time of the catastrophes.
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- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Kevin Andrew Buhr
- Date: Jan 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments

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