PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Eric Dal Moro TI - Pricing of Adverse Development Covers Using Option Pricing Methods AID - 10.3905/jod.2021.1.136 DP - 2021 Nov 30 TA - The Journal of Derivatives PG - 61--76 VI - 29 IP - 2 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/29/2/61.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/29/2/61.full AB - The market for Adverse Development Covers and Loss Portfolio Transfers has been growing in the past few years. Despite this growth, reinsurers are still struggling to define a standard method for pricing such covers. In this context, this article aims at providing an innovative method for pricing such contracts. The proposed method is based on the famous Mack model and fits a Constant Elasticity of Variance (CEV) model to the Mack results (expected value and standard deviation) for each future development year of each accident/underwriting year. Having fitted the CEV model, it is possible to estimate the value of the Adverse Development Covers for each accident/underwriting year using standard European option pricing techniques and to compare this valuation with usual non-life insurance valuation techniques.