Insurance Analysis and Valuation

Participants learn how insurance companies work, both life and non-life companies, in order to construct financial models of forecasted performance and valuation. Topics include insurance accounting, regulatory impact, modeling loss payout, and determining the “sum of parts” valuation for a diversified company.

Economics of the insurance industry

  • Expected losses
  • Capital requirements
  • How insurance companies make money
  • Why insurance companies are similar to banks
  • Life insurance companies and their different products/lines of business
  • Understanding mortality tables
  • Property and casualty insurance companies
  • Insurance industry trends (including claims and returns and demutualization)
  • Statutory strain
  • Reinsurance
  • Analyzing an insurance company

Insurance company accounting

Understand the different methods of insurance company accounting

  • Statutory accounting principles
  • Generally accepted accounting principles
  • Understanding insurance company financial statements
  • Understanding the realistic balance sheet

Modeling a non-life insurance company

Modeling an insurance company - preparing to model an insurance company

  • Modeling a single premium policy understanding the impact on the three financial statements: income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement
  • Understanding and modeling loss payouts
  • Building sensitivities and scenarios

Building a full model of an insurance company

  • Statutory statements and supporting schedules including taxes and dividend payment calculations
  • Estimating and modeling loss payouts
  • GAAP adjustments for the holding company financial statements
  • Coverage and other analytic ratio calculations
  • Sensitivities

Valuaing non-life and life insurance companies

Understand different ways to value an insurance company:

  • How much an acquirer can pay for a business without diluting earnings per share?
  • Discounted dividend flow
  • Comparable valuation
  • Price to book values and return on equity regression analysis
  • Actuarial valuation
  • Sum of the parts valuation for diversified companies
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