
87Pricing in Context
5.7.4.1 Interaction with the Pricing Function
The output of the reserving process is important for pricing purposes. As an example, in
the traditional burning cost analysis (a pricing technique discussed in Chapter 11), the
projection of every year’s reported claims to ultimate is normally done based on portfolio-
level loss development factors provided by the reserving function.
Also, reserving is part of the control cycle for pricing because it is only by following
the development of the total claims for each year that we nd whether the assumptions
made in pricing were borne out on average. The pricing function can, on ...