IBNR reserve, Unearned Premium Reserve (UPR) & Premium Deficiency Reserve (PDR) IBNR reserves are a part of claims reserves estimated by insurers for reporting on their financial statements. Claims reserves are estimates of claims that have occurred on or before the financial statement report date

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A brief ‘To-Do’ list for IBNR reserve, Unearned Premium Reserve (UPR) & Premium Deficiency Reserve (PDR) estimation IBNR reserves are a part of claims reserves estimated by insurers for reporting on their financial statements. Claims reserves are estimates of claims that have occurred on or

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The Big Short case study. For value investors and portfolio managers. For portfolio management and fixed income students the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis represents a terrific learning opportunity.  As I teach portfolio management to Executive MBA students I have started to use a class room

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The Big Short case study. For value investors and portfolio managers. For portfolio management and fixed income students the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis represents a terrific learning opportunity.  As I teach portfolio management to Executive MBA students I have started to use a class room

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The Big Short case study. For value investors and portfolio managers. For portfolio management and fixed income students the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis represents a terrific learning opportunity.  As I teach portfolio management to Executive MBA students I have started to use a class room

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Higher moment Portfolio models. Skewness preference. So far in the portfolio optimization course our focus has been on single dimension analytics. With both risk and performance we have only looked at one metric at a time. While our Solver models have worked with multiple constraints,

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Portfolio Management and Optimization Assessment This is a sample portfolio management and assessment exam used for the Executive MBA version of the course. Enrolled participants Students were given three hours to solve this assessment exam.   All question are to be solved used the exam

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Debunking Finance data science myths. An actuary and a computer scientist looks back in order to debunk finance data science myths. When I first started working with models, the phenomenon that fascinated me the most was changes in stock market prices.  This was in an

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Slower than the Flash. Bigger than a duck. The last twelve months have been a big mix of surprises and personal milestones. I have managed to live a year with reduced working hours, limiting office to just the first half of the day. I lost

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