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Alistair MilneCass Business [email protected]
Risk Management in Insurance and Insolvency,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,October 16th-17th 2006
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Economic and Regulatory Capital: Applications in
Banking and Lessons for the Insurance Industry
Alistair MilneCass Business School
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My research focus bank capital and shareholder value
i.e. risk-management and corporate finance
co-authors and papers
Giles and Milne (2004)
Dimou, Lawrence, and Milne (2005)
Milne and Onorato (2006a,2006b)
Milne (2006) “Three lessons”
theory informed by extensive interaction with practitioners
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Agenda for today• The rise of bank risk management
• bank economic capital: current practice
• A critique of this thinking– Practical issues– Cost of regulatory capital requirements– Skewness
• Two proposed performance measures
• Implications for insurance industry
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Greater competitionCore business (retail deposits, lending to households and smaller business) remains profitable; but• Narrower margins in many markets
– Especially corporate & sovereign• New products creating exposure to
market risks
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Governance centre stage
• Larger, more complex, institutions
• Less state ownership or support; more answerable to shareholders
• Pressure to increase shareholder returns
• Greater regulatory freedom in choice of activities– Regulatory oversight of risk-management
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Databases and modelling• Cost of collecting, storing, and manipulating
data fallen dramatically
• New tools– Market risk – VaR– Portfolio models of corporate and sovereign
credit risks
• Search for enterprise wide measures of risk/ return e.g. “pricing tools”
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A new language …
• Capital– Capital as a measures of “worst case” exposure
• Eg “value at risk”
– Efficient “allocation” of this capital, to activities earning the highest return
• Two birds with one stone– Solvency (enough capital); and – risk-reward tradeoffs (efficient allocation of capital)
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RAROC• Standard formulation
• Economic Capital = ‘value at risk’ type measure to
cover all risks (market, credit, operational)
• Accept when RAROC exceeds hurdle
• Widely used, especially in trading floors and
corporate lending
capital economic''
losses expected - costs -return expectedRAROC
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RAROC: “Logic”• Equity capital to maintain AA rating,
commonly 99.97% on one year horizon– “average” AA default frequency – By assumption economic = prudential
• Equity capital is in limited supply– ration according to rate of return
• Hurdle rate sometimes related to “return on equity”
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Regulatory dimension• approved internal models for setting regulatory
requirements on trading book, since 1996
• Basel II aims to align regulatory and economic capital– Concerns about “regulatory arbitrage”– EU implementation 2007, delayed in US– IRB model based calculations of credit risk – not based on portfolio models, but asks banks to
compute PD, LGD as inputs, and these could be derived from same databases as a portfolio model
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A critique1. Practical problems
2. Cost of regulatory capital?
3. Skewness
• Conclusions use alternative performance measures, distinguish tail risks and risk-return tradeoffs
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Competitive advantage?
• Proposition 1: lower regulatory capital provides me with a competitive advantage
• Proposition 2: estimating tail risks and allocating economic capital provides me with a competitive advantage
• Both must be qualified– Competitive advantage of regulatory capital is small– Tail risks relatively unimportant to pricing
• focus on value creation– Requires different metrics than RAROC
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Data problems – credit risk• Larger corporates/ sovereigns fairly OK
– CreditMetrics/MKMV– US ratings history back to 1950s or earlier– Difficulties with LGD
• Retail (including smaller corporates): – a variety of scoring models, good for PD– a little work on CVaR– best UK institutions around 10-12 years data
• UK FSA transitional arrangements accept 5 years of data for Basel computations! 2 years for LGD
• Other low default portfolios, – even more severe data problems
• Correlations?
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Data problems – op risk• Even greater than for credit risk
• High frequency/ low impact– Most firms have databases, for a few years– Little comparability between firms– Mostly EL (minor contribution to EC)
• Low frequency/ high impact– By their nature no data– Low correlation with market/ credit risks?
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Outcome : • lacking data we extrapolate
– standard deviations, using arbitrary multipliers– PD as in Basel risk curves (Vasicek single factor
model plus arbitrary correlation loading)
• OP risk : low frequency high impact, no statistical basis at all
• We are confusing:– Risk/return tradeoff (does not need extreme tail)– prudential safety (cannot be based on statistical
models)
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RAROC difficulty (1)• Liquidity facilities
– eg Lines of credit to a AAA/AA corporates– eg commercial paper underwriting
• Must back with capital– to maintain liquidity over (say) 24 months
• Loss v. unlikely: 99.97% appropriate• So VERY safe lending
– 15% required return on this committed capital leads to unreasonably high pricing …
– Cannot compete with market prices
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RAROC difficulty (2)• Capital in trading operations
• Liquidity is “lifeblood”, need to survive temporary market fluctuations without being forced to close positions
• Well known examples LTCM, Metallgesellschaft
• Investors (shareholders) need to distinguish extreme tails and normal range of market fluctuations, only latter is priced risk
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Back to basics• Ultimate objective: shareholder value
– Appropriate trade-offs between risk and reward– Protecting solvency of the institution– Incentives for employees and line management
• Well developed tools for these tasks for non-financial companies – Net Present Value (NPV)– Economic Value Added
• So lets apply these tools to banks
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Some findings:
1. Regulatory capital is NOT expensive
2. RAROC can be a misleading measure of returns to shareholders
3. In order to create shareholder value.. Distinguish capital management (liquidity,
solvency) and risk-return tradeoffs
Modelling should take a back seat, to business application and organisational credibility
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Basic argument • WACC = weighted average cost of capital
– Sum of debt and equity components
• Changing reg cap: only small change WACC– linked to Modigliani-Miller (1958)
• Detail (Milne and Giles (2004))– Equity capital small proportion of total funding – regulatory capital < 1:1 impact on equity capital
• e.g. if following rating agency target
– Leverage adjustment• Higher equity capital makes equity capital less risky,
lowers cost of equity
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Table 3: Change in cost of mortgage lending (Giles – Milne (2004)) Standardapproach
IRB Change
Value of loans € (1) 100.0 100.0Risk weighting (2) 50% 25%Capital requirement: tier 1 € (3) (1) (2) 4% 2.0 1.0 -1.0Capital requirement: tier 2 € (4) (1) (2) 4% 2.0 1.0 -1.0
Cost of Tier 2 debt employed € (5) (4) 5% 0.1 0.1Cost of other debt employed € (6) [(1) - (3) - (4)] 5% 4.8 4.9Gross cost of debt employed € (7) (5) + (6) 4.9 5.0Tax € (8) -(7) 30% -1.5 -1.5After tax cost of debt employed € (9) (7) + (8) 3.430 3.4650 0.035
Leverage adjusted COE (10) 4% + [15% - 4%] (2)1 (2)2] 15.00% 26.00%
After tax cost of tier 1 equity € (11) (3) (10) 0.30 0.26 -0.040
After tax break even loan charge (12) [(9) + (11)] (1) 3.730% 3.725% -0.005%Pre tax break even loan charge (13) (12) [1 - 30%] 5.329% 5.321% -0.007%
Hurdle interest rate on lending
Reduced IRB capital requirement for mortgages
Regulatory requirements
Cost of debt
Cost of equity
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Cost of regulatory capital?• Even without leverage adjustment, regulatory
capital not very expensive– WACC then yields an upper bound
• Financial Services Authority calculations• eg Basel II, reduces reg cap by 10%, worth at most 3
basis points on cost of funding your loan portfolio
• Some implications:– regulatory capital driven securitisation destroys
shareholder value– Basel Pillar 1 calculations not of great business
importance
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Dimou, Lawrence, Milne (2005)• Increases tax exposure
– higher equity capital reduces tax shield– a transfer: a private but NOT a social cost
• Reduces access to bank ‘safety net’– Higher equity capital forces bank owners to accept more risk– a transfer: a private but NOT a social cost
• Lowers expected costs of bankruptcy– Higher capital reduces probability of bankruptcy/ financial distress– a benefit: Social benefits likely to exceed private benefits.
• Agency costs– Bank managers look after themselves, not shareholders– Equity capital gives managers freedom to pursue their own ends– Reg cap is different, it is a discipline on managers just like debt– neutral No private cost of reg cap, if not used as risk measure
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Theory• Proposition 1 (Onorato-Milne (2006))
– Economic capital = prudential capital• iff insurance cost of hedging risk w is proportional to
prudential tail H-1(w)
• Corollary– RAROC hurdle delivers shareholder value if all risk
distributions have the same skew– Turnbull-Crouhy-Wakeman (1999) special case
• Log normal asset returns so (right) skew increasing with σ• As σ rises, prudential tail rises less than insurance cost• So RAROC threshold rises with σ
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Illustrations• Taken from Milne and Onorato (2006a)
“Apples and Pears? The comparison of bank economic and prudential capital.”
• Assume market price of risk proportional to standard deviation– Compare symmetric and right-tailed returns– What then is NPV=0 hurdle rate for
RAROC?
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A credit risk distribution• Credit risk left skew
• Vasicek “asymptotic” single factor model– Model used for Basel IRB risk curves– Left skew , so smaller NPV =0 RAROC
• More detail on parameters– PD : probability of default– ρ : correlation of credit risk driver with market– R2 : correlation with aggregate (systematic) risk
• How do these parameters affect RAROC hurdle?
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Critique: summarised• Two different objectives
– Prudential (avoiding financial distress, satisfying regulator)
– Risk-return tradeoffs
• Using one measure of capital for both purposes creates conflicts – If tail risk is uncertain– If tail risk is skewed
• If regulators take a conservative view of risks– Again does not matter to the business
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Proposed measures• Milne and Onorato (2006a): discount with market
based risk-premium φ
• Milne and Onorato (2006b): use Wang transform
pWT ETL
WTRAROC
Capital Prudential
1/Loss Expected -return ExpectedrEC
fr
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More theory• Inventory models
– Incorporate costs of financial distress, or penalty costs of raising capital
– Froot and Stein (1998), Milne (2004)
• Outcome: additional internal beta “G”– Measures the risk of capital shortage– Depends upon:
• Probability of capital shortage• Costs of financial distress
• For well capitalised bank, G can be ignored– Probability of capital shortage is negligible
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Implication • Longer term : equity capital not
constrained– Retain earnings or rights issue– No need to ration, adjust to minimise WACC
• Measuring NPV (shareholder value):– right WACC input
• e.g. “betas” (cost of risk)• depend on correlation with market NOT with balance sheet
– Equivalent to cost of insuring exposure
• Capital constrained? – Additional cost of risk: internal or portfolio beta G, for rationing
capital
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With market prices for risk • If risk can be priced on market, proceed as
follows (Milne and Onorato (2006a))– Discount future returns with risk-premium taken
from market prices– equivalently: estimate the cost of hedging
completely on the market and deduct this cost from expected return
(“risk neutral pricing”)– Divide by contribution to prudential capital
• Hurdle rate? Zero if unconstrained. Otherwise chosen to ration equity capital
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No market prices for risk • Use “distortion measure” (Milne and Onorato
(2006b )) eg Wang transform– Portfolio based– Satisfies axioms of coherence and second
order stochastic dominance– Divide by contribution to prudential capital
• Hurdle rate? Zero if unconstrained. Otherwise chosen to ration equity capital
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Merits of Wang transform• Yields an “expected value”
– Analagous to “risk neutral pricing” – “distort” the probability density of returns
• “risk appetive” can be parameterized using a single parameter p
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In practice very limited data• Especially for tail risks
• Sophisticated modellign of tail risks not ormally appropraite– Simple stress or scenario analysis– Aim to achieve credibility, within the
organisation and also with shareholders.
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Implications for insurance
Some preliminary thoughts: open to discussion
First general insurance, then life
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When re-insurance markets availableLogic of Milne and Onorato (2006a) applies.
– Price risk according to what it would cost to transfer onto re-insurance market – deduct from premium income
– Set a hurdle rate “cost of equity capital”• Zero if unconstrained, > zero if rationing
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When reinsurance limited• Use of the Wang transform can help
systematise thinking about “risk-appetite”
• Needs to be supplemented by e.g. stressed scenarios, to check capital adequacy
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Data sometimes available• For some products extensive data available
– Also the products where reinsurance markets are most liquidy
• Models can be used for computing capital, but pricing best done off the market
• For other products, very limited data and illiquid markets for re-insurance. – Here focus on the simplest possible modelling tools
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One difference: insurance and banking - segmentation
• Banks all seek to maintain high credit ratings
• Some insurers may opt for lower capitalisation, and lower premium pricing to customers, with the understanding that they may fail in the event of a large aggregate rise in claims
• Customers carry aggregate tail risks
• Other insurers may choose high capitalisation, high pricing
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Life insurance• Very long term mortality risks
• No possibility of precise quanitification
• Operate with conservative capitalisation– Should not restrict business, provided need
for capital is understood by sharholders
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I have discussed• The rise of bank risk management
• bank economic capital: current practice
• A critique of this thinking– Practical issues– Cost of regulatory capital requirements– Skewness
• Two proposed performance measures
• Implications for insurance industry
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Some findings:1. Regulatory capital is NOT expensive
2. RAROC can be a misleading measure of returns to shareholders
3. In order to create shareholder value.. Distinguish capital management (liquidity,
solvency) and risk-return tradeoffs
Modelling should take a back seat, to business application and credibility in the organisation
4. Similar issues in insurance: no problem with conservative capitalisation
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Priority: better risk language• Simple enough to be understood throughout
the organisation
• Key concepts
1. Balance sheet commitment and liquidity• Not a pricing issue
2. Expected loss
3. Cost of carrying risk What reward do shareholders require for holding
risk? Use models where appropriate (market risk,
corporate credit risk, retail insurance)