Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Insurance - General

This book adopts an international perspective to examine how the online sale of insurance challenges the insurance regulation and the insurance contract, with a focus on insurance sales, consumer protection, cyber risks and privacy, as well as dispute resolution. Today insurers, policyholders, intermediaries and regulators interact in an increasingly online world with profound implications for what has up to now been a traditionally operating industry. While the growing threats to consumer and business data from cyber attacks constitute major sources of risk for insurers, at the same time...

Focusing on life insurance and pensions, this book addresses various aspects of modelling in modern insurance: insurance liabilities; asset-liability management; securitization, hedging, and investment strategies. With contributions from internationally renowned academics in actuarial science, finance, and management science and key people in major life insurance and reinsurance companies, there is expert coverage of a wide range of topics, for example: models in life insurance and their roles in decision making; an account of the contemporary history of insurance and life insurance...

Especially since the 2003 SARS crisis, China s healthcare system has become a growing source of concern, both for citizens and the Chinese government. China s once praised public health services have deteriorated into a system driven by economic constraints, in which poor people often fail to get access, and middle-income households risk to be dragged into poverty by the rising costs of care. The New Rural Co-operative Medical System (NRCMS) was introduced to counter these tendencies and constitutes the main system of public health insurance in China today. This book outlines the nature of...

Dieses Buch gibt einen methodisch fundierten Zugang zum wertorientierten Risikomanagement, einem fachubergreifenden Aufgabengebiet, das Komponenten aus dem Controlling und dem Aktuariat umfasst. Der anwendungsorientierten Ansatz versetzt den Leser in die Lage, ein auf quantitativen Methoden basiertes Risikomanagement unter kritischer Wurdigung seiner Grenzen praktisch im Unternehmen zu implementieren. Die Schwerpunkte des Buches sind hierbei Risikokapital und Kapitalallokation, Erfolgsmessung und wertorientierte Steuerung. Es wird ausserdem der Zusammenhang zu regulatorischen Entwicklungen...

The original establishment of life assurance upon a sound basis was largely the achievement of The Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships (now known as The Equitable Life Assurance Society and still affectionately called the 'Old Equitable'), and of the men who served her.

Old Equitable was the first life assurance society to grant long-term contracts for either a stated period or the whole of life, with premiums calculated according to age and type of assurance. Published in 1962 to mark this Society's bicentenary, this book charts its long history in a...