Insurance Valuation: How to Price Uncertainty?
摘要
This chapter establishes a comprehensive framework for valuing insurance companies that integrates actuarial, financial, and regulatory perspectives. It explains why traditional DCF methods fail for insurers and proposes models grounded in underwriting discipline, reserve adequacy, and investment management. Life insurance valuation relies on embedded value and value of new business, while property and casualty valuation depends on combined ratios and reserve integrity. The chapter emphasizes IFRS 17 and Solvency II as catalysts for transparency, framing insurance valuation as a disciplined process of quantifying uncertainty, solvency, and capital resilience.