General Insurance Applications (GIA) Practice Questions - General Insurance Applications (GIA) - Actuaries Institute Fellowship Program Exam - General Insurance Applications (GIA) Practice Questions - General Insurance Applications (GIA) - Actuaries Institute Fellowship Program Exam

Question 1

Under APRA Prudential Standard GPS 340 (Insurance Liability Valuation), what is the REQUIRED statistical standard for determining the risk margin applied to the central estimate of net outstanding claims liabilities for regulatory capital reporting?

The risk margin must be determined so that the total provision provides at least a 75% probability of sufficiency The risk margin must equal a flat 10% loading across all classes of general insurance business The risk margin must be calibrated to a 99.5% Value at Risk standard over a 1-year horizon The risk margin is optional if the insurer maintains an A+ credit rating from Standard & Poor's

Correct Answer:

The risk margin must be determined so that the total provision provides at least a 75% probability of sufficiency

Question 2

Under Actuaries Institute Professional Standard PS 302 (Valuation of General Insurance Claims), what is the definition of a 'Central Estimate' of outstanding claims liabilities?

The expected value (statistically unbiased mean) of the distribution of potential future claim settlement outcomes The 50th percentile (median) value of the empirical claims distribution The most conservative upper bound estimate intended to guarantee solvency The total undiscounted historical cumulative paid claims to date

Correct Answer:

The expected value (statistically unbiased mean) of the distribution of potential future claim settlement outcomes

Question 3

In Australian general insurance reserving, 'Superimposed Inflation' is defined as:

The tendency for claims costs to increase at a rate faster than standard wage or consumer price inflation, driven by legal, court, medical, and technological factors The headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) published quarterly by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) The interest rate penalty charged by APRA on deficient capital reserves The annual increase in reinsurance brokerage commission rates

Correct Answer:

The tendency for claims costs to increase at a rate faster than standard wage or consumer price inflation, driven by legal, court, medical, and technological factors

Question 4

Which of the following Australian insurance lines of business is classified as a 'Long-Tail' class?

Compulsory Third Party (CTP) Motor Bodily Injury Insurance Comprehensive Private Motor Vehicle Comprehensive Property Damage Home and Contents Property Insurance Marine Cargo Transit Insurance

Correct Answer:

Compulsory Third Party (CTP) Motor Bodily Injury Insurance

Question 5

Under the Chain Ladder (development factor) claims reserving method, the age-to-age development factor f_(j) is calculated as:

sum_i (C_(i, j+1)) / sum_i (C_(i, j)), summing over all accident years i available for development periods j and j+1 The arithmetic average of premiums written divided by claims paid The ratio of final year claims divided by initial year earned premiums The difference between total incurred losses and paid losses

Correct Answer:

sum_i (C_(i, j+1)) / sum_i (C_(i, j)), summing over all accident years i available for development periods j and j+1

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