Re: Bornhuetter/Ferguson The Actuary and IBNR

Vic Falls ( (no email) )
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 06:49:16 PDT

Annmarie_Schuster@CUUSA.com wrote:

On the bottom of page 184, can anyone explain how B/F arrived at the
$3,039,000 figure for the 1971 IBNR reserve?

Answer:

Do not spend time trying to resolve this figure for the "snowballing"
effect. It cannot be done.

Note: The "cannot" is not supposed to challenge anyone. It really is a
waste of study time!

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