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Equivalent Risk Semantic Issue
Is an Automobile policy that can lose 10,000 times a day's
allocation of Surplus, every day, without limit
"Equivalent with”
A stock investment that can't lose more than 100%, and that
only one time?
Or are they of such different characters that no objective
comparison is possible?
Does "Equivalent Risk" means "Systematic Risk"
Much of the correlation between insurers' stocks and the
overall market can be explained by the movement in the
value of the insurers' assets (sometimes, more than all.)
In financial terms, insurance operations have a very small
beta (sometimes, negative.)
In CAPM regulation, insurance operations deserve a very
small profit provision (sometimes, negative.)
Does this make objective sense?
If there is no trading in insurance assets, there is no
objective answer to this question!
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