Regulations Governing Pre-sale Procedures for Insurance Products Article 9

An insurance enterprise shall rigorously execute the following matters when formulating the pricing actuarial memorandum during formal development of life insurance products:1. Determining benefit items and collecting reference information for premium rate-setting, confirming the correlation between the experience data used and the rate-setting, and that the experience data meet the following criteria, and that premium rates are adequate, reasonable and fair, and reflect costs and reasonable profits, and the enterprise shall not solicit or conduct insurance business by offering unreasonable prices:(1) The experience data should use statistical data in the past 3 – 5 years and should be principally domestic data, and may include the enterprise’s own experience data. However if no statistical data in the past 3-5 years are available, comparable foreign data may be used.(2) The setting of expected incidence rate in reference to domestic and foreign data should be commensurate with payment terms and conditions and exclusions stated in the insurance policy.(3) The enterprise should understand clearly the domestic and foreign data used and obtain the source data, and should not just use the incidence rate provided by reinsurance companies. The data used should be completely consistent with the payment terms and conditions in the insurance policy.2.Setting limits on the insuring age and insuring amounts, and determining the method of premium payment.3.Undertaking trial calculation of premiums.4.Calculating reserves and contract amendments.5.Carrying out pricing analysis and risk assessment.6. Evaluating reinsurance arrangements.7. Risk management mechanisms.A life insurance enterprise shall rigorously execute the following matters when carrying out pricing analysis and risk assessment under subparagraph 5 of the preceding paragraph:1.Analyzing the reasonableness of assumptions used.2.Analyzing various profit benchmarks (including analysis of product profits, plus analysis of either asset share or the break-even point).3.Reviewing the appropriateness of risk assessment results (including testing of actuarial data and sensitivity analysis).4.Inspecting the text of policy provisions and the pricing actuarial memorandum for consistency.When an insurance enterprise formulates a risk management manual in the formal development of life insurance products, the manual shall include at least reinsurance arrangement, early warning and control mechanisms for evaluating sales limits, and state that the sales limits are commensurate with the risk appetite set by the company.
中文原文 保險商品銷售前程序作業準則第9條
保險業進行人身保險商品正式開發研擬計算說明書時,應確實執行下列事項:
一、設定給付項目及蒐集費率釐訂之參考資料,並確認所引用經驗資料與費率之釐訂具關連性及符合下列規定,且費率符合適足性、合理性及公平性,並應反映各項成本及合理利潤,不得以不合理之定價招攬或承作保險業務:
(一)所引用之經驗資料應採最近三至五年統計資料,且應以國內資料為主,倘有公司本身經驗資料者,應併同納入評估。
但無最近三至五年統計資料者,得引用國外相當之資料。
(二)引用國內外資料訂定預定危險發生率時,應配合保險單條款之給付條件及除外責任。
(三)引用國內外資料應確實瞭解並取得其原始資料,不得逕引用再保險公司提供之發生率,且與保險單條款給付條件應完全一致。
二、設定投保年齡限制、投保金額限制及繳費型態。
三、進行保險費試算。
四、計算準備金與契約變更。
五、進行檢測定價及風險評估。
六、再保險評估。
七、風險控管機制。
前項第五款人身保險業進行檢測定價及風險評估時,應確實執行下列事項:
一、檢測假設之合理性。
二、檢測各項利潤指標(含商品利潤分析、資產額份分析或損益兩平分析)。
三、檢視風險評估結果之妥適性(含各項精算數據之檢測及敏感度分析)。
四、檢視保險單條款及計算說明之一致性。
保險業進行人身保險商品正式開發研擬風險控管說明書時,其內容應至少包括評估再保險安排、銷售限額預警及控管機制,且應載明銷售限額符合公司所定風險胃納。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.