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CPCU 520-14
Chapter 14
Question | Answer |
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Credit Risk | the rsk that customers or other creditors will fail to make promised payments as they come due. |
Interest rate risk | the risk that a security future value will decline because of changes in interest rates |
Cash Matching | the process of matching an investments maturity value with the amount of expected loss payments |
Portfolio immunization (asset liability matching) | the process of matching investment duration and liability duration |
Reinvestment risk | the risk that the rate at which periodic interest payments can be reinvested over the life or the investment will be unfavorable. |
Duration | a measure of a security;s weighted average life. p 14.11 |
IBNR reserve | a reserve established for losses that reasonably can be assumed to have been incurred but not yet reported. p 14.13 |
Risk based capital (RBC) system | a system developed by the NAIC to determine the minimum amount of capital an insurer needs to support its operation, given the insurer's risk characteristics. p 14.22 |
Asset Risk | the risk that an asset's value will be lower than expected. p 14.24 |