As per my understanding, per policy expense are not really fixed for each policy and it does vary by the size of the policy. Secondly, usually fixed expenses are allocated using as per policy method, is this correct?
Problem with this is, large policies are subsidizing for the small policy which will make the large policy poor value for money and probably will make them uncompetitive.
We have 3 different method to deal with this problem:
- Individual calculation of premium rates
- Policy fee addition to the premium
- Sum insured differential
Under first two method we still have the problem that small policy will become uncompetitive, so company would reduce the expense charge for the small policies to make them more marketable.
Then how does it solves the problem of cross subsidy?
Sum insured differential, I am not sure if I understand this method completely.
Broadly it is a per policy expense allocation as per the average policy size, where we are calculating average policy size as per the different bands instead of using single average benefit size in a normal scenario. Is his correct?
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