MICRO-RESOURCE-POOLING SYSTEM AND CORRESPONDING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140039936A1
• Filed: 06/18/2013
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2012
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Swiss Reinsurance Company
• Original Assignee: Swiss Reinsurance Company
• Inventors: DA VICTORIA LOBO, Nikhil, Young, Simon
• Application Number:
  US13/920,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20140039936A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

The invention relates to a resource-pooling system and to a corresponding method for risk sharing of a variable number of risk exposure components. The risk exposure components are connected to the resource-pooling system by means of a plurality of payment receiving modules configured to receive and store payments from risk exposure components for the pooling of their risks. The total risk of the pooled risk exposure components comprises a first risk contribution associated to risk exposure in relation to loan losses, and a second risk contribution associated to risk exposure based on emergency expenses. The pooled risk is divided in a parameterizable risk part and a non-parameterizable risk part by means of an indexing module. In case of triggering a loss by means of a trigger module, the suffered loss is covered by releasing associated loans and emergency expenses of the risk exposure components.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A resource-pooling system for risk sharing of a variable number of risk exposure components by providing a self-sufficient risk protection for the risk exposure components, the risk-pooling system comprising:

a processor programmed to

process risk related components data and to provide the likelihood of said risk exposure for one or a plurality of the pooled risk exposure components based on the risk related components data, the risk exposure components being connected to the resource-pooling system by a plurality of payment receiving modules that receive and store payments from risk exposure components for the pooling of their risks, wherein,

the total risk of the pooled risk exposure components includes a first risk contribution associated to risk exposure in relation to loan losses, the loan losses occurring as consequence to insolvency of risk exposure components owing to the occurrence of a risk event contributable to the risk exposure,

the total risk of the pooled risk exposure components includes a second risk contribution associated to risk exposure based on emergency expenses, the emergency expenses occurring for risk exposure components owing to the occurrence of a risk event contributable to the risk exposure,

the processor divides the pooled risk into a parameterizable risk part and a non-parameterizable risk part, the parameterizable risk part being transferred to a connected loss coverage system via a multidirectional risk transfer module that transfers risk factors in exchange of premium payment parameters to achieve loss covering of the parameterizable risk part via the connected loss coverage system, the non-parameterizable risk part being directly covered by the resource-pooling system based on the received and stored payments from risk exposure components, and

in the event of triggering a loss by a trigger module, suffered loss is covered by releasing associated loans and emergency expenses of the risk exposure components by transferring payments from the resource-pooling system to the risk exposure components based on the parameterizable risk part from the connected loss coverage system and based on the non-parameterizable risk part from the received and stored payments from risk exposure components.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the variable number of pooled risk exposure components are adaptable by the resource-pooling system to a range where not-covariant occurring risks covered by the resource-pooling system affect only a relatively small proportion of the totally pooled risk exposure components at a given time.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein the processor is further programmed to receive and store, in memory, a principal payment from an investor for a financial product linked to the resource-pooling system and a payment module that determines a bonus payment for the investor and a return interest payment for the investor when the pooled resources of the risk exposure components exceed a predefined threshold value due to a low frequency of losses occurred.

18. The system according to claim 15, wherein the parameterizable risk part of the risk exposure covers a relatively large percentage of the total risk exposure of the pooled risk exposure components in relation to the non-parameterizable risk part.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the parameterizable risk part covers a range of 70% to 95% of the total pooled risk, while the non-parameterizable risk part covers a range of 30% to 5% of the total pooled risk.

20. The system according to claim 15, wherein the separation of the parameterizable and non-parameterizable parts are kept connected through a seamless integration both in financial exposure and process, wherein the system acts as an aggregation institute to aggregate risk and provide claims to the risk exposure components in a seamless process so that the risk exposure components receive a single payment.

21. The system according to claim 15, wherein risk transferred from the risk exposure components to the resource-pooling system via the multidimensional risk transfer module is not only binomial but multidirectional by scaling to the magnitude of the exposure.

22. A method for risk sharing of a variable number of risk exposure components by providing a self-sufficient risk protection for the risk exposure components via a resource-pooling system, the method comprising:

processing, via a processor, risk related components data and providing the likelihood of said risk exposure for one or a plurality of the pooled risk exposure components based on the risk related components data;

connecting the risk exposure components to the resource-pooling system via a plurality of payment receiving modules that receive and store payments from risk exposure components for the pooling of their risks,

wherein

the total risk of the pooled risk exposure components includes a first risk contribution associated to risk exposure in relation to loan losses, the loan losses occurring as consequence to insolvency of risk exposure components owing to the occurrence of a risk event contributable to the risk exposure, and

the total risk of the pooled risk exposure components includes a second risk contribution associated to risk exposure based on emergency expenses, the emergency expenses occurring for risk exposure components owing to the occurrence of a risk event contributable to the risk exposure; and

dividing via the processor the pooled risk into a parameterizable risk part and a non-parameterizable risk part, the parameterizable risk part being transferred to a connected loss coverage system via a multidirectional risk transfer module transferring risk factors in exchange of premium payment parameters to achieve loss covering of the parameterizable risk part via the connected loss coverage system, the non-parameterizable risk part being directly covered by the resource-pooling system based on the received and stored payments from risk exposure components,

wherein, in case of triggering a loss via a trigger module, suffered loss is covered by releasing associated loans and emergency expenses of the risk exposure components by transferring payments from the resource-pooling system to the risk exposure components based on the parameterizable risk part from the connected loss coverage system and based on the non-parameterizable risk part from the received and stored payments from risk exposure components.

23. The method according to claim 22, wherein the variable number of pooled risk exposure components are adaptable by the resource-pooling system to a range where not-covariant occurring risks covered by the resource-pooling system affect only a relatively small proportion of the totally pooled risk exposure components at a given time.

24. The method according to claim 22, further comprising:

receiving and storing a principal payment from an investor for a financial product linked to the resource-pooling system; and

determining a bonus payment for the investor and a return interest payment for the investor when the pooled resources of the risk exposure components exceed a predefined threshold value due to a low frequency of losses occurred.

25. The method according to claim 22, wherein the parameterizable risk part of the risk exposure covers a relatively large percentage of the total risk exposure of the pooled risk exposure components in relation to the non-parameterizable risk part.

26. The method according to claim 25, wherein the parameterizable risk part covers a range of 70% to 95% of the total pooled risk, while the non-parameterizable risk part covers a range of 30% to 5% of the total pooled risk.

27. The method according to claim 22, wherein the separation of the parameterizable and non-parameterizable parts are connected via a seamless integration both in financial exposure and process.

28. The method according to claim 22, wherein the risk transfer from the risk exposure components to the risk-pooling system via the multidimensional risk transfer module is not only binomial but multidirectional by scaling to the magnitude of the exposure.

29. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon which when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for risk sharing of a variable number of risk exposure components by providing a self-sufficient risk protection for the risk exposure components via a resource-pooling system, the method comprising:

processing risk related components data and providing the likelihood of said risk exposure for one or a plurality of the pooled risk exposure components based on the risk related components data;

connecting the risk exposure components to the resource-pooling system via a plurality of payment receiving modules that receive and store payments from risk exposure components for the pooling of their risks,

wherein

the total risk of the pooled risk exposure components includes a first risk contribution associated to risk exposure in relation to loan losses, the loan losses occurring as consequence to insolvency of risk exposure components owing to the occurrence of a risk event contributable to the risk exposure, and

the total risk of the pooled risk exposure components includes a second risk contribution associated to risk exposure based on emergency expenses, the emergency expenses occurring for risk exposure components owing to the occurrence of a risk event contributable to the risk exposure; and

dividing the pooled risk into a parameterizable risk part and a non-parameterizable risk part, the parameterizable risk part being transferred to a connected loss coverage system via a multidirectional risk transfer module transferring risk factors in exchange of premium payment parameters to achieve loss covering of the parameterizable risk part via the connected loss coverage system, the non-parameterizable risk part being directly covered by the resource-pooling system based on the received and stored payments from risk exposure components,

wherein, in case of triggering a loss via a trigger module, suffered loss is covered by releasing associated loans and emergency expenses of the risk exposure components by transferring payments from the resource-pooling system to the risk exposure components based on the parameterizable risk part from the connected loss coverage system and based on the non-parameterizable risk part from the received and stored payments from risk exposure components.