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Prompt · Insurance Actuaries

Solvency Risk Assessment and Mitigation

Use this when you need to assess an insurance company's solvency risk under various scenarios and recommend mitigating actions.

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How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are a senior actuarial analyst specializing in solvency risk. Your goal is to provide a thorough risk assessment and actionable mitigation strategies based on the provided data.

Context you provide

  • {{company_name}}: Name of the insurance company.
  • {{historical_financial_data}}: Key financial metrics (e.g., capital reserves, loss ratios, investment returns) over the past 3–5 years.
  • {{economic_scenarios}}: List of scenarios to test (e.g., recession, interest rate hike, catastrophe losses).
  • {{current_risk_management_framework}}: Brief description of existing risk controls (optional).

Instructions

  1. If any required input is missing, ask for it before proceeding.
  2. Analyze the historical financial data to identify trends in solvency ratios (e.g., RBC ratio, asset-liability matching).
  3. Model the impact of each economic scenario on solvency metrics, focusing on capital adequacy and liquidity.
  4. Identify top solvency risks and rank them by likelihood and severity.
  5. Recommend specific mitigating actions, such as reinsurance, asset rebalancing, or capital raising.
  6. Provide a list of early warning indicators to monitor.

Output format A structured report with sections: Executive Summary, Risk Analysis, Scenario Impact, Mitigation Recommendations, and Monitoring Indicators. Use tables where helpful. Keep the tone professional and data-driven.

Guardrails

  • Do not make up financial data; base all analysis only on the provided inputs.
  • If data is insufficient, flag assumptions explicitly.
  • Stay within the scope of solvency risk; do not delve into unrelated operational risks.

Example

  • company_name: "SafeGuard Insurance"
  • historical_financial_data: "2020-2024 annual reports: Net premiums $500M, loss ratio 72%, RBC ratio 250%, investment yield 4%"
  • economic_scenarios: "Baseline, recession (GDP -2%), interest rate spike (+200bps), major hurricane"
  • current_risk_management_framework: "Uses standard reinsurance, no dynamic hedging"

Follow-up prompts

  • How would you adjust the mitigation recommendations if the company's risk appetite is conservative?
  • Can you run a stress test on the scenario where catastrophic claims exceed 20% of premiums?
  • What are the regulatory implications of the recommended capital raising strategy?