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Study on natural hedge strategy in Korean life insurance industry

우리나라 생명보험산업의 자연헤지에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Sejoong (Department of Aging Research, Korea Insurance Research Institute)
  • 김세중 (보험연구원 사회안전망연구실)
  • Received : 2017.01.10
  • Accepted : 2017.03.10
  • Published : 2017.03.31

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to evaluate whether longevity risk is properly managed in Korean life insurance industry by measuring longevity risk in the viewpoint of natural hedge. According to analysis, the sum of the reserve of annuity and that of whole life insurance appears to decrease in the case both reserve of annuity and whole life insurance are shocked by same degree and also the mortality rate of the aged policyholders is improved faster than that of the less aged policyholders. Although the sum of the reserves increases only when the mortality improvement of annuity policyholders is higher than that of whole life insurance policyholders by two times, more than 60% of reserve increase of annuity is found to be offset by natural hedge. Thus, it is judged that the longevity risk of Korea life insurance industry is properly managed by natural hedge.

본 논문은 우리나라 생명보험산업의 장수리스크에 대한 자연헤지가 충분히 이루어지고 있는가를 평가해 보았다. 연금보험과 종신보험 준비금 계산 시 사망률 모형으로는 Lee-Carter 모형을 적용하였다. 사망률 개선 시나리오로는 연금보험과 종신보험 사망률이 모두 10%와 20% 개선되는 경우, 50세 이하 저연령 사망률은 10% 개선되고, 50세 이상 고연령 사망률은 20% 개선되는 경우, 마지막으로 연금보험 사망률은 20% 개선되지만 종신보험 사망률은 10% 개선되는 등 네 가지 시나리오를 살펴보았다. 분석결과 연금보험과 종신보험에 동일한 사망률 충격을 가하는 경우와 고연령의 사망률 개선이 저연령에 비해 빠르게 나타나는 경우 모두 연금보험과 종신보험 준비금의 합은 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 네 번째 시나리오에서만 전체 준비금은 증가하였으나, 이 경우에도 연금보험 준비금 증가의 60% 이상이 자연헤지에 의해 상쇄하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 우리나라 생명보험산업의 장수리스크는 자연헤지를 통해 충분히 관리되고 있다고 판단된다.

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