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The lmplications of the China risk-oriented solvency system on the life insurance market
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The lmplications of the China risk-oriented solvency system on the life insurance market / Derrick W. H. Fung...[et.al]
Sumario: The China Risk-Oriented Solvency System (C-ROSS) was fully implemented in 2016. We analyse the effects of C-ROSS on the financia] position, product oox and asset allocation of life insurers in the Chinese insurance market. Based on a data set of 66 life insurers, we find that the solvency position of life insurers specialising in writing long-term traditionallife products with heavy protection elements improves under C-ROSS, but that the insurers are more vulnerable to decreases in interest rates. In contrast, the solvency position of life insurers specialising in writing short-term endowments and high cash value products deteriorates. C-ROSS also incentivises life insurers to consider asset- liability duration matching, accounting classification of fixed-income assets and underlying risks of equity investments when formulating their investment strategies. Life insurers may find it difficult to manage interest rate risk under C-ROSS due to the Jack of available long-term bonds in the Chinese financial market. A stock market . boom has a slightly negative effect on life insurers' solvency ratios, and most life insurers can survive a severe market crash due to the pro-cyclical component embedded in the mínimum capital requirements.
En: Geneva papers on risk and insurance : issues and practice. - Geneva : The Geneva Association, 1976- = ISSN 1018-5895. - 01/10/2018 Volumen 43 Número 4 - octubre 2018 , p. 615-632
1. Solvencia II ‌. 2. Gerencia de riesgos ‌. 3. Seguro de vida ‌. 4. China ‌. I. Fung, Derrick W. H. ‌.