Statistical Research of Various Reinsurance Strategies in Maritime Insurance

Student: Kogotkova Sof`ya

Faculty: School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography

Educational Programme: Bachelor

Year of Graduation: 2014

Reinsurance strategy selection is one of the most crucial tasks of any insurance company since it addresses the question of its financial stability. The considerable progress has been achieved in a few recent decades in Russia to develop reinsurance market: to improve market conditions, to increase companies’ understanding of reinsurance advantages and to encourage insurance companies to use reinsurance more extensively.However, it is still necessary to further investigate the impact of reinsurance strategies on the characteristics of insurance portfolio and the ruin probability of insurance company to gain a better insight of what strategy to use depending on features of risks written.In order to deal with this problem such actuarial techniques as quota share, excess of loss, stop-loss and surplus reinsurance were used.

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