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    Aubrey Clayton

    Economic Scenario Generation expert; model efficiency specialist

    Aubrey Clayton is a part of the Moody’s Analytics Insurance Research group. His recent work has focused on applications of economic scenario generators and Least Squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) proxy techniques to multi-period problems, particularly the projection of dynamic hedge programs and economic capital. Aubrey has a PhD in Mathematics from The University of California, Berkeley with a specialty in stochastic modeling and dynamical systems.

    education
    University of California, Berkeley: PhD, Mathematics
    University of Chicago: BS, Mathematics and Statistics
    Expertise
    solutions

    Economic Scenarios: Moody's Analytics provides internally & globally consistent economic, regulatory, and custom scenarios. Explore the economic scenarios tool.

    Economic Capital : Moody’s Analytics insurance economic capital solution provides critical insights that help evaluate solvency positions and risk-based decision making.

    Insurance Asset and Liability Management : Moody's Analytics insurance asset and liability management (ALM) solution provide scenario-based asset and liability modeling for insurers.

    TOPICS

    Scenario Generation: Mathematical model simulating possible paths of economic and financial market variables.

    Liability Valuation: Process of valuing a company's liabilities for financial reporting purposes.

    Capital Measurement & Projection: Approach for the projection of assets and liabilities for a business block to future time.

    Representative Projects

    Developed techniques to calibrate proxy functions for Conditional Tail Expectation metrics, improving efficiency for reserve/capital projections

    Used LSMC and neural network methods to forecast Greeks for complex Variable Annuity portfolios, enabling fast projection of dynamic hedges

    Published Work