Personal study notes for the SA3 (General Insurance) actuarial exam by the IFoA
Syllabus states:
- 35% = General insurance products and environment
- 30% = Reserving, ALM and reinsurance
- 25% = Financial, monitoring and strategies
- 10% = Regulatory, legisation and taxation environment
- Overview
- Markets
- Products
- Legislation
- Lloyds'
- Solvency II
- Technical Provisions
- Professional Standards
- Taxation
- Pricing
- CAT models
- Latent Lines
- Financial Reporting
- Business Planning
- Capital costs in business planning
- Exit Solutions
- Other Topics
- License
- Main features of general insurance markets
- Captives
- P&I Clubs
- London Market
- Non-London Market
- Private motor
- Other motor
- Household
- Commercial fire
- Employers' liability
- Product liability
- Professional indemnity
- Public liability
- Marine
- Aviation
- Personal accident
- Extended warranty
- Travel
- Mortgage indemnity
- Pecuniary loss
- Cyber
- Regulators
- Supervisory tools
- Statutory actuarial roles
- Jurisdictional differences
- Consumer protection
- Equality
- Jurisdictional differences
- Key features of Lloyd's
- Regulation at Lloyd's
- SAOs at Lloyd's
- Pillar 1: quantitative
- Pillar 2: qualitative
- Pillar 3: reporting
- Groups
- Best estimate claims provision
- Best estimate premium provision
- Risk margin
- Reinsurance treatment
- ENIDs
- Segmentation
- Validation, reporting and communication
- Actuarial associations - IAA and AAE
- Technical standards - TAS 100 and TAS 200
- Actuarial Profession Standards (
APS) - Actuaries' Code
- Taxing insurance companies
- Investment return
- Underwriting result and provisions
- Other considerations
- Taxing mutuals
- Tax in Lloyd's market
- Other tax
- Pricing large commerical risks
- Approaches to rate commerical risks
- Incorporating return on capital in premium rates
- Difference between CAT modelling and traditional rating
- Generic structure of CAT model
- Key perils modelled
- Key uses actuaries use output of CAT models
- Considerations when using CAT models
- Non-modelled CATs
- Latent claim characteristics
- Latent claim stages
- APH
- Modelling latent claims
- Annual accounting
- Statutory returns
- Management accounts
- Discounting
- Aggregation
- General Measurement Model (BBA)
- Premium Allocation Approach (PAA)
- Disclosure
- Financial planning requirements
- Financial planning models
- Benefits of capital allocation
- Components of capital cost
- Risk measure coherence
- Capital allocation methods
- Incorporating capital costs
- Transfer liabilities
- Portfolio transfer
- Reasons to transfer portfolios
- Approaches to transfer and appropriateness
- Periodic Payment Orders
- Disruptors to GI market
- Emerging risks
- Cyber risk
- Climate change
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