Gérard de LA MARTINIERE Chairman FFSA Monte-Carlo Rendezvous Gérard de LA MARTINIERE Chairman FFSA Monte-Carlo Rendezvous 9 September 2003, Monte-Carlo CAUSES and LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES of ASSET VOLATILITY on INSURANCE
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Market situation
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Stock price fall & overreaction of insurance Three main over/underreaction turning points
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) An exuberance not totally irrational … but a turning point in autumn 2000
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Price’s correlation with expected return … particularly during the fall of stock prices
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Expected return driven by interest rate … but its rise after mid 2000 is not
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Risk premium driven by business sentiment … but its rise since 2002 is not
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Decomposition of price variation since 1993 …expected return explains most price variations
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Decomposition of expected return …underlines the crucial role of the risk premium
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Specificity of insurance market situation
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Recent overreaction of insurance quotation … overreaction during the recent falling episode
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Growing expected return gap vs market … exploding between mid 2002 & mid 2003
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Decomposition of price variation since 1993 … negative contribution of the risk premium
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) A not foreseeable overreaction
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Perspectives
Whole market perspectives … clear upturn perspectives
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Insurance market perspectives … upturn so as for the whole market
Tuesday 9th September FFSA – (data source : ECOWIN) Conclusions What lessons from the current financial crisis ? What lessons from the current financial crisis ?