Question:
On 1st October 2001 a man then aged 34 took out an endowment assurance policy with a sum assured of $100,000 payable on survival to age 50 or at the end of the year of earlier death.
(a) Calculate the net premium retrospective reserve value as at 30th September 2005.
(b) Over the past 5 years the insurer has experienced heavier than expected mortality on the endowment business and has decided to increase the policy values held for the future. This is to be done by "rating up" all insured lives by 3 years, which means that all lives will be treated as though they were 3 years older than they actually are (but the premium rate is unchanged). Calculate the net premium prospective reserve value for the policy as at 30 September 2005 on this new basis.
(c) Explain any difference between the reserve values in part (a) and part (b).
Basis: AM92 Select mortality, 4% pa interest