Investments and Cash
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Understand how to forecast the investments and cash balances in insurance businesses
Transcript
We're gonna forecast the investments in cash balances for generally and we're gonna use a two-step process to do this. The first step is to allocate out investments in cash to the insurance activities versus other investments and cash balances. Then the second step is to allocate out the investments for our insurance activities to the different business lines. Now, for the first step, we're gonna need these assumptions here. So, that's the allocation of investments in cash to our insurance activities and our other investments. Then anything left over from that will be our cash balance. So, let's start building those calculations in our calculation section.
Now, the first thing we're gonna need to do is calculate the residual item from our balance sheet. That's our total investments and cash. So, we go down to total liabilities and equity and we deduct from that all the other assets in the balance sheet that we've already forecast.
So, that's our total investments in cash and we can now allocate that out to the different activities, starting off with the insurance activities. Now, for that, we need our assumption from above.
And that's gonna be 96% of our total investments and cash balance.
And then, we do exactly the same for our other investments, going up to our assumptions.
And that's 2.2% of our total investments in cash. Then our cash and cash equivalence is just a residual. So, our total investments in cash, less our insurance investments, less our other investments. Okay, so that's step one done. Now, we need to move on to step two, and that's allocating out our insurance investments to the different business lines. Now, the first thing we do here is to set our unit linked investments as equal to our unit linked provisions. So, let's grab those from our balance sheet.
And now what we need to do is allocate out what's left over between our traditional life business and our P&C business, and we're gonna do that using the insurance provisions for those business lines. Now, the first thing we need is the amounts we're allocating out. That's the total investments for insurance, less our unit linked investments, and then we multiply that by the traditional life provisions from the balance sheet.
So, that's our total life provisions, less those unit linked provisions.
And then, we divide that by the total of our traditional life provisions and our P&C provisions. So, again, taking that all from the balance sheet.
And again, making sure that we exclude those unit link provisions.
And now, we can do exactly the same for the P&C investments. So, we take the amount that needs allocating out and we multiply that by the P&C provisions, and then we divide that by the total traditional life and P&C provisions from the balance sheet.
So, again, we're gonna deduct those unit link provisions from the calculation.
So, now we can see we've completed step two. We have allocated out all of those insurance investments across the different business lines. So, now that's all that's left to do is to pop those investment balances into the balance sheet.