Discrete Time Ruin Probability for Takaful (Islamic Insurance) with Investment and Qard-Hasan (Benevolent Loan) Activities

Dila Puspita, Adam Kolkiewicz and Ken Seng Tan
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Dila Puspita: Dept. Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Adam Kolkiewicz: Dept. Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Ken Seng Tan: Dept. Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada

JRFM, 2020, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-24

Abstract: The main objectives of this paper are to construct a new risk model for modelling the Hybrid-Takaful (Islamic Insurance) and to develop a computational procedure for calculating the associated ruin probability. Ruin probability is an important study in actuarial science to measure the level of solvency adequacy of an insurance product. The Hybrid-Takaful business model applies a Wakalah (agent based) contract for underwriting activities and Mudharabah (profit sharing) contract for investment activities. We consider the existence of qard-hasan facility provided by the operator (shareholder) as a benevolent loan for the participants’ fund in case of a deficit. This facility is a no-interest loan that will be repaid if the business generates profit in the future. For better investment management, we propose a separate investment account of the participants’ fund. We implement several numerical examples to analyze the impact of some key variables on the Takaful business model. We also find that our proposed Takaful model has a better performance than the conventional counterpart in terms of the probability of ruin.

Keywords: Hybrid-Takaful; qard-hasan; ruin analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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