1. Casualty Actuarial Society – Chicago, IL November 2007
Actuarial Skills in the Financial Markets Phil Kane – Director: Securitized Credit
Casualty Actuarial Society – Chicago, IL November 2007

2. How do Investment Banks Organize Themselves?
Investment Banking
Advisory and Relationship Management
Valuations
Capital Structure Advice
Acquisition/Spin-Off Strategies
Equity Research
Markets
Securities & Derivatives - Sales and Trading
Security Transactions
Cat Bonds
ALM – Hedging
Secondary Insurance Policy Transactions
XXX Securitizations
Credit Research
Risk Management
Portfolio Credit Derivative Transactions and CDOs
DCM
ECM
Structuring

3. CDOs as Credit Reinsurance?
Andrew event ≈ Subprime Mortgage event
Like Reinsurance, CDOs re-tranche risk portfolios to re-distribute it different risk appetites
Catastrophe Risk Placement
CDO Tranching
Sleep Tight protection
Super Senior
Excess of Loss
Senior Mezz
Working Layer
Junior Mezz
Retention
First Loss

4. CDOs : An Actuarial Role?
Much like Actuaries at the forefront of driving reinsurance transaction pricing and execution,
Structurers model and execute CDO transactions…
CDO pricing transparency recently questioned but limiting discussion to Credit Derivative CDOs, pricing models have become widely accepted and have actuarial analogues.
Risk premiums are typically arbitrage free; two way markets allow for the assumption that spreads are the best measure of default risk
In addition, ratings models usually have similar engine to pricing models, but rely on agency statistics rather than market inputs

5. Portfolio Credit Derivative Models
Default Risk ≈ Similar to insurance Event Risk
If event happens, loss; no event, no loss
Spread Risk ≠ Insurance Premium Risk
No Mark to Market for Insurance Premiums (yet….)
Simple default models are typically based on binomial models for defaults;
With correlations between 0 and 1, Gaussian Copulas have become standard model
In Credit, as in the markets as a whole, individual risks are NOT independent

6. Marked to Market Risk
Trading desk hold statistical reserves for counterparty risks, “gap” risks, and model risks. These are typically monitored by Risk Management (analogue to Reserving Actuaries).
Trading Desks though are also exposed to Marked to Market as well, for example, basis risk on hedges: (using CDX example with recent levels:)
CDX Tranches
30-100% [8.25]bps running
15-30% [14.5]bps running
CDX Index
[61]bps
10-15% [32.5]bps running
7-10% [73]bps running
3-7% [213]bps running
0-3% [18.55]% running
= [75.9]bps running expected total
Expected Basis approximately of [15]bps; can move though, +/- 5bps

7. Many roles for dedicated Insurance Knowledge
Summary
Many roles for dedicated Insurance Knowledge
Actuarial Skills are directly transferable to Insurance Related Investment Banking.
Life Actuaries have been successful migrated to ALM, asset sales, and securitization products.
In markets, Portfolio Credit Derivatives behave in a many ways like Reinsurance
In addition, to transact in the Credit Derivative Markets, one must firmly grasp Market to Market Risks as well.
But, in general the modeling skills of an actuary can be successfully used in CDOs of all asset classes.

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