EIOPA · 1846

Other

Regulation
(EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII)
Article
182
Topic
Other
Submitted
2019-11-13
Answered
2020-02-01

Question

Should ordinary shares (shocked under Type I or Type II Equity Shock, bought commercially e.g. on a stock market or as private equity, not Participations) also be considered in the Concentration Risk module?

Answer

Within the market risk module, the equity risk sub-module and the concentration risk sub-module capture different types of risks: risk of adverse changes in the level or in the volatility of market values of equities for the former, and risks stemming from a lack of diversification in an assets portfolio or from a large exposure to a single issuer or group of related issuers of securities for the latter. Therefore the equity risk sub-module does not include the concentration one. Ordinary shares should then also be considered in the concentration risk sub-module.

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