PathWise®

PathWise®, a cloud-enabled, scalable ERM solution giving (re)insurers and pension funds access to next generation technology to rapidly solve today’s key insurance challenges: regulatory changes, business forecasting, hedging strategy testing, and workflow automation. It can also be used for valuation, pricing, and hedging

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Introducing PathWise

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White paper

FIA Fair Value Quantification and Valuation

This paper was published in the February 2022 SOA Risk Management Newsletter. In this article, a numerical comparison of two commonly used FIA valuation methodologies is conducted to help insurers decide on the best methodology to use under GAAP LDTI and VM-22.

Insights

Make stochastic-on-stochastic simulation work for you

Learn about the challenges legacy systems face with this widely applicable yet computationally intensive algorithm, and how PathWise solves these issues

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How high performance computing is addressing complex pandemic challenges

Looking at the range of possible risk trajectories by modeling through Monte Carlo simulation

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Why cloud computing might not deliver the performance you need

The move to the cloud for many companies started with the need for more computing power, flexibility, and scalability.

White paper

Market Consistent Valuation of Financial Guarantees for Life Insurance Contract

In this white paper we show that when approximations are used for financial reporting, the approximation errors may lead to unexpected earning movements and sometimes with large unexplained variances that are difficult to understand.

White paper

ESG Model Choices for Fixed Indexed Annuities

This white paper examines the impact of economic scenario generator (ESG) model choices for the exotic options and option strategies embedded in FIAs, namely: Asian call options, the Point-to-Point crediting mechanism, and the Monthly Sum Cap crediting mechanism.

Highlights

Next generation tool

PathWise reduces the run-time of complex life insurance risk calculations from weeks to only a few hours by leveraging the full power of High Performance Computing. This allows business users to focus more on analysis and spend less time waiting for results.

Game changer

PathWise holds the promise of changing the traditional approach to risk management, pricing, reporting and economic value-based valuation.

One platform serving multiple purposes

PathWise capabilities include Economic Scenario Generator (ESG), liability calculation, asset modelling, and reporting and database functionality in one platform in order to efficiently manage your business.

PathWise Solutions

Hedging Solutions

PathWise Solutions Group at Aon provides proven hedge management and analysis services that allow our global clients to manage risk and capital efficiently. Our services are made possible by three key factors that are crucial for any successful hedging program: expertise, state-of-the-art tools, and efficient and stable operations.

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Actuarial Pricing, Valuation & Capital Solutions

PathWise Solutions Group has extensive experience in life and P&C insurance product modeling, pricing, valuation and risk management. It also provides actuarial appraisal services for M&A, hedging strategies analysis and actuarial system transformation and optimization.

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Cloud Solutions

PathWise allows companies to move their technical operations to the cloud without sacrificing control, security, and quality. The goal and mission of PathWise software-as-a-service (SaaS) is to provide complete end-to-end support for all our clients and their critical production operations.

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Benefits of Using PathWise

PathWise can be used for

Capital Risk Management

IFRS 17

Economic Scenario Generation

Predictive Analytics

Non-Life Reserving

Intelligent Workflow Automation

Long Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI)

Life Insurance and Universal Life

PathWise – Events

November 4, 2020

Practical considerations concerning variable annuity risk management under IFRS17

This talk discusses the practical considerations of variable annuity hedging under the IFRS 17 variable fee approach (VFA).

November 4, 2020

Latest developments in modelling segregated funds

Learn the latest developments in seg fund modelling, and how computing concerns are addressed in real-life applications.

July 17, 2020

Recent development of high efficiency methods for nested Monte Carlo simulation

This webcast gives an overview of recent research on improving computational efficiency of nested Monte Carlo simulation.

July 13, 2020

Practical application of Least-Squares Monte Carlo to VA pricing

Least-Squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) based on predictive models can be used to significantly reduce model run time with a high degree of accuracy.

June 23, 2020

Illustration of indexed annuities

This webcast covers the product design of indexed annuities in the U.S. market and looks at some recent successful product launches in Asia and the U.S.

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PathWise Partners

PathWise®¹is available in the cloud as a managed, Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery option. PathWise as SaaS relieves the burden of procuring, operating and securing infrastructure whilst leveraging the cloud to deliver rapid, secure deployments. Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), PathWise as SaaS benefits from AWS’ secure, reliable, scalable and highly-performant global infrastructure. PathWise as SaaS adheres to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and best practices for security, high availability, support, and automation.

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¹PathWise is a trademark of PathWise Solutions Group LLC registered in the U.S., Canada and EU