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Role of the Pension Protection Fund in financial risk management of UK defined benefit pension sector: a multi-period economic capital study

Tapadar, Pradip (2015) Role of the Pension Protection Fund in financial risk management of UK defined benefit pension sector: a multi-period economic capital study. In: International Actuarial Association Colloquium, 7-10 June 2015, Oslo. (KAR id:49616)

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Abstract

With the advent of formal regulatory requirements for rigorous risk-based, or economic, capital quantification for the financial risk management of banking and insurance sectors, regulators and policy-makers are turning their attention to the pension sector, the other integral player in the financial markets. In this paper, we analyse the impact of applying economic capital techniques to defined benefit pension schemes in the UK. We propose two alternative economic capital quantification approaches, firstly for individual defined benefit pension schemes on a stand-alone basis and then for the pension sector as a whole by quantifying economic capital of the UK's Pension Protection Fund, which takes over eligible schemes with deficit, in the event of sponsor insolvency. We find that economic capital requirements for individual schemes are significantly high. However, we show that sharing risks through the Pension Protection Fund reduces the aggregate economic capital requirement of the entire sector.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Lecture)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Depositing User: Pradip Tapadar
Date Deposited: 21 Jul 2015 14:58 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 06:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/49616 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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