Underwriting Cycles and Business Strategies

Abstract
Underwriting cycles, with their wide and puzzling swings in premiums and profitability, challenge the pricing actuary to adapt rates to market realities. Understanding the forces behind insurance price fluctuations is a prerequisite to analyzing market prices.
Volume
LXXXVIII
Page
175-235
Year
2001
Categories
Actuarial Applications and Methodologies
Ratemaking
Publications
Proceedings of the Casualty Actuarial Society
Authors
Sholom Feldblum