guythomas.org.uk Report : Visit Site

Technical data of the guythomas.org.uk

Geo IP provides you such as latitude, longitude and ISP (Internet Service Provider) etc. informations. Our GeoIP service found where is host guythomas.org.uk. Currently, hosted in United Kingdom and its service provider is Webfusion Internet Solutions .

the related websites

guythomas.com computerperformance.co.uk rightmove.co.uk forbes.com securecovers.co.uk holyfamily-church.co.uk mgthomas.co.uk thomaslarson.com newquayhealthcentre.co.uk tate.org.uk stridegum.com askonasholt.co.uk 

HTTP Header Analysis

HTTP Header information is a part of HTTP protocol that a user's browser sends to called Apache/2.4.33 (Unix) containing the details of what the browser wants and will accept back from the web server.

DNS

HtmlToText

contents my academic publications my blog free capital book loss coverage gender & insurance genetics & insurance contact details adverts buy my books! amazon publisher amazon publisher i'm an actuary and investor, and an honorary lecturer at the university of kent . site contents: free capital book of biographical profiles of private investors my blog very occasional posts about investment strategy (no stock tips!) academic papers risk classification, loss coverage, price discrimination (optimisation), taxable portfolio management, non-linear stochastic asset model, etc etc... loss coverage , genetics and insurance , gender and insurance why insurance may work better with less discrimination how to contact me (bottom of this page) academic papers: insurance loss coverage and demand elasticities abstract: restrictions on insurance risk classification may induce adverse selection, which is usually perceived as a bad outcome. we suggest a counter-argument to this perception in circumstances where modest levels of adverse selection lead to an increase in `loss coverage', defined as expected losses compensated by insurance for the whole population. this happens if the shift in coverage towards higher risks under adverse selection more than offsets the fall in number of individuals insured. the possibility of this outcome depends on insurance demand elasticities for higher and lower risks. we state elasticity conditions which ensure that for any downward-sloping insurance demand functions, loss coverage when all risks are pooled at a common price is higher than under fully risk-differentiated prices. empirical evidence suggests that these conditions may be realistic for some insurance markets. pdf (27 pages) insurance loss coverage under restricted risk classification: the case of iso-elastic demand abstract: this paper investigates equilibrium in an insurance market where risk classification is restricted. insurance demand is characterised by an iso-elastic function with a single elasticity parameter. we characterise the equilibrium by three quantities: equilibrium premium; level of adverse selection; and “loss coverage”, defned as the expected population losses compensated by insurance. we find that equilibrium premium and adverse selection increase monotonically with demand elasticity, but loss coverage first increases and then decreases. we argue that loss coverage represents the efficacy of insurance for the whole population; and therefore, if demand elasticity is sufficiently low, adverse selection is not always a bad thing. pdf (29 pages) loss coverage in insurance markets: why adverse selection is not always a bad thing abstract: this paper investigates equilibrium in an insurance market where risk classification is restricted. insurance demand is characterised by an iso-elastic function with a single elasticity parameter. we characterise the equilibrium by three quantities: equilibrium premium; level of adverse selection; and “loss coverage”, defned as the expected population losses compensated by insurance. we find that equilibrium premium and adverse selection increase monotonically with demand elasticity, but loss coverage first increases and then decreases. we argue that loss coverage represents the efficacy of insurance for the whole population; and therefore, if demand elasticity is sufficiently low, adverse selection is not always a bad thing. pdf (17 pages) this paper was awarded a prize in june 2015 by the international actuarial association! genetics and insurance in the united kingdom 1995-2010: the rise and fall of "scientific" discrimination abstract: around the millennium there was extensive debate in the united kingdom of the possible use of predictive genetic tests by insurance companies. many insurance experts, geneticists and public policymakers appeared to believe that genetic test results would soon become widely used by the insurance industry. this expectation has not been borne out. this article outlines the history of exaggerated perceptions of the significance of genetic test results to insurance, with particular reference to the united kingdom, suggesting reasons why they arose and also why they have declined. the article concludes with some speculation about how policy on genetics and insurance might develop in future. pdf (20 pages) non-risk price discrimination in insurance: market outcomes and public policy abstract: this paper considers price discrimination in insurance, defined as systematic price variations based on individual customer data but unrelated to those customers’ expected losses or other marginal costs (sometimes characterised as “price optimisation”). an analysis is given of one type of price discrimination, “inertia pricing,” where renewal prices are higher than prices for risk-equivalent new customers. the analysis suggests that the practice intensifies competition, leading to lower aggregate industry profits; customers in aggregate pay lower prices, but not all customers are better off; and the high level of switching between insurers is inefficient for society as a whole. other forms of price discrimination may be more likely to increase aggregate industry profits. some public policy issues relating to price discrimination in insurance are outlined, and possible policy responses by regulators are considered. it is suggested that competition will tend to lead to increased price discrimination over time, and that this may undermine public acceptance of traditional justifications for risk-related pricing. pdf (19 pages) demand elasticity, risk classification and loss coverage: when can community rating work? abstract: this paper investigates the effects of high or low fair-premium demand elasticity in an insurance market where risk classification is restricted. high fair-premium demand elasticity leads to a collapse in loss coverage, with an equilibrium premium close to the risk of the higher risk population. low fair-premium demand elasticity leads to an equilibrium premium close to the risk of the lower risk population, and high loss coverage – possibly higher than under more complete risk classification. the elasticity parameters which are required to generate a collapse in coverage in the model in this paper appear higher than the values for demand elasticity which have been estimated in several empirical studies of various insurance markets. this offers a possible explanation of why some insurance markets appear to operate reasonably well under community rating, without the collapse in coverage which insurance folklore suggests. pdf (25 pages) loss coverage as a public policy objective for risk classification schemes abstract: this paper suggests that from a public policy perspective, some degree of adverse selection may be desirable in some insurance markets. the paper suggests that a public policymaker should consider the criterion of “loss coverage,” and that in some markets a policymaker may wish to regulate risk classification with a view to increasing loss coverage. either too much or too little risk classification may reduce loss coverage. the concept is explored by means of examples, formulaic and graphical interpretations. an application to the uk life insurance market is considered. pdf (22 pages) powerpoint (46 pages) on the value of not taking advice abstract: conventional wisdom commonly exhorts non-experts to take expert advice when dealing with specialist fields. this works well in relation to the physical or biological world, because theories of these worlds are generally neutral: popular acceptance of a theory does not change the phenomena it describes. in contrast, theories of social phenomena such as finance are often reflexive: popular acceptance of a theory does change the phenomena it describes. reflexive theories can be either self-fulfilling or self-negating. advice based on self-negating theories is not likely to be useful. expert advice is therefore less useful in fields such as investment, which are dominated by self-negating theories. pdf (9 pages) taxable and tax-advantaged portfolio management for uk personal investors abstract: this paper makes some observations on the interaction of united kingdom taxation and portfolio decisions by a personal investor managing his own investments in quoted company shares. i consider five holding vehicles: three types of tax-advantaged account (isas, sipps, and spread bets); and two types of taxable account (a company controlled by the investor, and direct holdings in the investor's personal account). i note some ways in which portfolio management for a taxable account differs from management of a tax-advantaged account. i use simple models to illustrate the difficulty of producing post-tax out-performance from active management of a taxable account. i suggest some heuristic guidelines for allocating different types of investments across the five types of accounts. i also provide some guidance for decisions on switching between investments in a taxable account. i note several quirks in the cgt legislation which are useful for the active personal investor to know. readers who want to read just results should go directly to sections 9 to 11 of the paper. full version (46 pages) or published version (23 pages) (updated for april 2008 changes). some novel perspectives on risk classification abstract: this paper considers a number of novel perspectives on risk classification, primarily in the context of life and critical illness insurance. i suggest that the terminology of "adverse selection" is often misleading, because from a public policy viewpoint adverse selection may not always be adverse. i suggest that public policymakers should consider the criterion of "loss coverage," and that in many markets a socially optimal level of adverse selection is that which maximises loss coverage. a review of empirical studies suggests that adverse selection is often difficult to observe in practice; this leads to the concept of propitious selection, and various psychological perspectives on risk classification. i suggest that competition between insurers in risk classification can sometimes be characterised as a malevolent invisible hand, and that public policy should direct competition towards areas which are more clearly beneficial to all insurance customers. i also consider the perspectives of risk classification as blame, the conflict between risk classification and human rights, and the fallacy of the one-shot gambler. pdf (28 pages) an earlier version pdf (28 pages) presented at diw berlin in june 2005 included graphs of market prices. accident compensation: compensation culture? no! justice culture. abstract: the actuarial profession in the uk has a policy (as explained on its website here ) of campaigning against what it calls the "compensation culture." this involves the profession in making various insinuations against accident victims - for example, that it is in some way blameworthy if accident victims receive compensation for negligence; or that the costs of such compensation are excessive, or rapidly increasing, or otherwise unjustifiable. i believe that this campaign is inconsistent with the data on accident compensation in the uk, which show the costs of accident compensation to be lower than in almost all other industrialised countries. see tony silverman's article justice culture and my letter to the actuary ; and then my article better routes to redress and the response . the actuary refused to publish my succinct reply . morris review of the actuarial profession abstract: my response to the interim report of the morris review, focusing on actuarial research. pdf (3pages) pricing zero-dividend preference shares abstract: zero-dividend preference shares (zdps) are the simplest type of security issued by uk investment trusts (closed-end funds). zdps have option-like properties, but there sometimes seems to be little awareness in the investment trust world of option pricing concepts. this three-page working note makes some rudimentary observations on the factors which should affect zdps prices. pdf (3 pages) genetics and insurance: further notes to the human genetics commission abstract: an examination of actual premium rates suggests large variations for identical insurance covers, both between companies and over time. in this context, the impact on insurance markets of outlawing access to genetic tests is likely to be very small. pdf (7 pages) genetics and insurance: an actuarial perspective with a difference abstract: this is a response to a public consultation by the human genetics commission (hgc) in februry 2001; a revised version was given to the international congress of actuaries in mexico in march 2002. many individuals or organisations capable of commenting technically on insurance discrimination have a commercial interest in promoting such discrimination. technical expertise is therefore directed to the promotion of discrimination for commercial ends, but little technical expertise is applied to counteract it. this paper attempts to redress the balance. its central section comprises a point-by-point rebuttal of some of the myths and half-truths which are promulgated by those wishing to legitimise insurers' access to genetic test results. hgc version pdf (15 pages) or ica version pdf (17 pages) a non-linear stochastic asset model for actuarial use ( with sp whitten) abstract: this paper reviews the stochastic asset model described in wilkie (1995) and previous work on refining this model. the paper then considers the application of non-linear modelling to investment series, considering both arch techniques and threshold modelling. the paper suggests a threshold autoregressive (tar) system as a useful progression from the wilkie (1995) model. the authors are making available (by email, on request) a collection of spreadsheets, which they have used to simulate the stochastic asset models which are considered in this paper. pdf (33 pages) this paper was awarded a prize by the institute of actuaries! positive theory and actuarial practice (with ad smith) abstract: most of the extant theory which is used to justify actuarial practice is normative . this short paper proposes a positive approach to explaining actuarial practice, explains how this differs from a normative approach, and highlights the importance of the "market for excuses." pdf (5 pages) actuarial values (with cd sharp) abstract: this paper seeks to identify the characteristic values implicit in contemporary actuarial thought and practice. 'values' is used here to mean fundamental concepts which we use, largely intuitively, to guide our patterns of thought and behaviour. we consider to what extent these values are characteristic simply because actuarial work attracts individuals who already subscribe to them, and to what extent these values may be inculcated by actuarial training. we then consider whether the characteristic values we have identified are congruent with the changing values of wider society, and whether they are likely to be conducive to the continuing success of the profession in the 21st century. pdf (16 pages) the right to underwrite? an actuarial perspective with a difference (with ta moultrie) abstract: for a very long time, underwriting has formed part of the actuarial canon. with increasing frequency, challenges are being issued against the right of insurance companies to underwrite their applications for new business, arguing that certain aspects of the practice are undesirably discriminatory. this paper explores the role of the actuary in the underwriting process, and the challenges that are being set for the profession (as opposed to the life insurance industry) as a result of this role. pdf (12 pages) indemnities for long term price risk in the uk housing market abstract: discusses the features which distinguish the market for residential property from the markets for other assets. proposes that financial institutions should offer house buyers indemnity policies which pay out an amount related to any fall in the level of a general index of house prices, on the sale of the house at a loss at any time during the mortgage term. to facilitate hedging the risk of a portfolio of such policies (and therefore, the pricing of the policies), a market in 'perpetual futures' on indices of housing assets is proposed. discuss possible users of these contracts, and outlines further research. pdf (17pages ) how to contact me: e-mail : r.g.thomasnospam at kent.ac.uk (remove nospam, substitute symbol for at). please give your email a clear title. loss coverage blog home

URL analysis for guythomas.org.uk

http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/taxpaper.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/nlstoch.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/index.php#papers
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/justice-gt1.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/justice-silverman.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/investment/freecap.php
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/ica2002.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/hgc29apr.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/compensation/actletter-dec05.php
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/htt2015.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/rtu.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/ime
-
mar18.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/indemnit.pdf
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/index.php
http://www.guythomas.org.uk/pdf/geneva.pdf
actuaries.org.uk
amazon.co.uk
kent.ac.uk
blogs.kent.ac.uk

Whois Information

Whois is a protocol that is access to registering information. You can reach when the website was registered, when it will be expire, what is contact details of the site with the following informations. In a nutshell, it includes these informations;

Domain name:
guythomas.org.uk

Registrant:
Richard Thomas

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.

Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 10-Dec-2012

Registrar:
123-Reg Limited t/a 123-reg [Tag = 123-REG]
URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 28-Aug-2000
Expiry date: 28-Aug-2018
Last updated: 21-Aug-2016

Registration status:
Registered until expiry date.

Name servers:
ns.123-reg.co.uk 212.67.202.2
ns2.123-reg.co.uk 62.138.132.21

WHOIS lookup made at 15:45:03 12-Oct-2017

--
This WHOIS information is provided for free by Nominet UK the central registry
for .uk domain names. This information and the .uk WHOIS are:

Copyright Nominet UK 1996 - 2017.

You may not access the .uk WHOIS or use any data from it except as permitted
by the terms of use available in full at http://www.nominet.uk/whoisterms,
which includes restrictions on: (A) use of the data for advertising, or its
repackaging, recompilation, redistribution or reuse (B) obscuring, removing
or hiding any or all of this notice and (C) exceeding query rate or volume
limits. The data is provided on an 'as-is' basis and may lag behind the
register. Access may be withdrawn or restricted at any time.

  REFERRER http://www.nominet.org.uk

  REGISTRAR Nominet UK

SERVERS

  SERVER uk.whois-servers.net

  ARGS guythomas.org.uk

  PORT 43

  TYPE domain

OWNER

  ORGANIZATION Richard Thomas

TYPE
UK Individual

ADDRESS
The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
address omitted from the WHOIS service.
Data validation:
Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 10-Dec-2012

DOMAIN

  SPONSOR 123-Reg Limited t/a 123-reg [Tag = 123-REG]

  CREATED 2000-08-28

  CHANGED 2016-08-21

STATUS
Registered until expiry date.

NSERVER

  NS.123-REG.CO.UK 212.67.202.2

  NS2.123-REG.CO.UK 62.138.132.21

  NAME guythomas.org.uk

DISCLAIMER
This WHOIS information is provided for free by Nominet UK the central registry
for .uk domain names. This information and the .uk WHOIS are:
Copyright Nominet UK 1996 - 2017.
You may not access the .uk WHOIS or use any data from it except as permitted
by the terms of use available in full at http://www.nominet.uk/whoisterms,
which includes restrictions on: (A) use of the data for advertising, or its
repackaging, recompilation, redistribution or reuse (B) obscuring, removing
or hiding any or all of this notice and (C) exceeding query rate or volume
limits. The data is provided on an 'as-is' basis and may lag behind the
register. Access may be withdrawn or restricted at any time.

  REGISTERED yes

Mistakes

The following list shows you to spelling mistakes possible of the internet users for the website searched .