Hi,
I got bit confused while reading solution to Q3 in sept 2020 paper. Could you please help me to understand below excerpts and if we can tell the direction of change in BEL and own funds ?
"
The asset share will be impacted depending on the investment strategy of the conventional with profit fund… [½]
• … but the movement in the asset share is likely to match the movement in the assets baking the asset share… [½]
• However, the matching may not be exact. [½]
• Any allowance for smoothing may impact the own funds, if it is assumed that the full impact of the shock would not feed through to smoothed asset share."
Cost of guarnatee:
• It is also possible for the asset share to fall below the level of any bonuses guaranteed to date which would result in an impact to own funds. [1]
• The impact on guarantee cost will depend partly on how “in-the-money” guarantees currently are"
Also, Why the answer do not mention that decrease in interest rate would lead to increase in BEL ?
I got bit confused while reading solution to Q3 in sept 2020 paper. Could you please help me to understand below excerpts and if we can tell the direction of change in BEL and own funds ?
"
The asset share will be impacted depending on the investment strategy of the conventional with profit fund… [½]
• … but the movement in the asset share is likely to match the movement in the assets baking the asset share… [½]
• However, the matching may not be exact. [½]
• Any allowance for smoothing may impact the own funds, if it is assumed that the full impact of the shock would not feed through to smoothed asset share."
Cost of guarnatee:
• It is also possible for the asset share to fall below the level of any bonuses guaranteed to date which would result in an impact to own funds. [1]
• The impact on guarantee cost will depend partly on how “in-the-money” guarantees currently are"
Also, Why the answer do not mention that decrease in interest rate would lead to increase in BEL ?
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