Financial Management Of Life Insurance Companies

Author : J. David Cummins,Joan Lamm-Tennant
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401122085

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Financial Management of Life Insurance Companies by J. David Cummins,Joan Lamm-Tennant Pdf

th This book is published to commemorate the 50 Anniversary of the S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education. Administered at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Huebner Foundation was established in 1941 to strengthen insurance education at the collegiate level by increasing the number of professors specializing in insurance and enriching the literature in the field. The financial support of leading life insurance companies has enabled the Foundation to provide post-graduate education for prospective insurance teachers and scholars. Through its fellowship program, the Foundation supports students in the Ph.D. program in Risk and Insurance at the Wharton School. The success of the Foundation is measured by the accomplishments of its alumni. Former Huebner Fellows play leading roles in every major area of insurance education. Fellows teach insurance to tens of thousands of undergraduate and MBA students each year and have written hundreds of books and thousands of articles on insurance. Fellows hold leadership positions at the American College, the Life Office Management Association, and the Certified Employee Benefit Specialist Program. The Foundation was created in honor of Dr. Solomon S. Huebner, a pioneer in insurance education. Dr. Huebner taught the first organized course on the economics of insurance ever offered at the collegiate level in 1904. An internationally recognized author and teacher, Dr. Huebner had a profound impact on both insurance education and the insurance industry. He served on the faculty of the Wharton School for more than nearly fifty years.

Author : John J. Hampton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Insurance
ISBN : OCLC:1297062285

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Financial Management of Insurance Companies by John J. Hampton Pdf

Author : J. David Cummins,Anthony M. Santomero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461550457

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Changes in the Life Insurance Industry: Efficiency, Technology and Risk Management by J. David Cummins,Anthony M. Santomero Pdf

Major challenges for life insurance companies have been posed by an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry and the emergence of non-traditional competitors such as banks, mutual fund companies and investment advisory firms. This is the first book to analyze the determinants of firm performance in the life insurance industry by identifying the `best practices' employed by leading insurers to succeed in this dynamic business environment. The book draws upon data from insurer financial statements as well as upon an extensive survey of life insurer management practices and strategic choices in distribution systems, information technology, mergers and acquisitions, human resources and financial strategies. Generic strategies such as cost leadership, customer focus, and product differentiation are analyzed as well as strategic practices specific to the insurance industry. Best practices are identified by measuring the economic efficiency of insurers and by comparing firms across the industry. Both cost and revenue efficiency are measured relative to best practice efficient frontiers consisting of the industry's dominant life insurance firms. Economies of scale and the effects of mergers and acquisitions on efficiency are also analyzed. Financial strategies are examined with specific reference to pricing policy, valuation of assets and liabilities, and the current state of firm-level risk management systems. The benchmarks established are the result of extensive fieldwork that identifies key financial risks and methodologies to both measure and manage them at the firm level. The results discussed in the book indicate that firm performance is significantly correlated with management practices and strategic choices. Thus, life insurers can improve profitability by adopting optimal combinations of strategies. The book contains important new material on the effects of strategic choices in product distribution systems, information technology, mergers and acquisitions, human resources, and financial risk management policies. In the area of efficiency, the methodology provides a new approach for identifying peer groups of insurers and measuring the performance of individual insurers relative to their peer group. On the topics of risk and pricing, new insights are offered relative to current methodologies and in regard to areas where improvement is clearly warranted. The book concludes with an analysis of the future opportunities and challenges in the life insurance industry facing managers, and the strategic options available to them to cope with these changes.

Author : Solomon Stephen Huebner
Publisher : Irvington Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B3218455

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The Economics of Life Insurance by Solomon Stephen Huebner Pdf

Author : Stephen Diacon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349074952

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A Guide to Insurance Management by Stephen Diacon Pdf

This book makes a substantial contribution to the general level of management education in insurance by providing a comprehensive review of the main issues facing the management of insurance enterprises. Nineteen authors with considerable practical as well as academic experience have collaborated to give an international perspective in areas such as strategy, corporate planning, organisation and staffing, costing, underwriting and premium rating, marketing, reserving and investment, profit analysis, and regulation.

Author : Prasanna Rajesh
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781949991536

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Valuation of Indian Life Insurance Companies by Prasanna Rajesh Pdf

This book bridges the gap between the accounting and the actuarial sides of Indian life insurance companies, by exploring the relationships between the embedded value calculated by actuaries and the revenue account and balance sheet prepared by the accountants. The author provides publicly available sources of information to place a value on the shares of Indian life insurance companies from an outsider’s point of view. Life insurance company accounts are complex and require knowledge of specific concepts in order to analyze and appreciate them. This book will help a layperson with reasonable numerical abilities understand the calculation of the share price of a life insurance company. In particular, it will help analysts and accountants with no actuarial background understand the concepts of embedded and appraisal value. Cash flow statements of these companies are often ignored and delegated to the background or usually to a single page in their annual reports. This book examines the cash flows in detail and rearranges them to get a better picture of the financial health of the underlying companies. It also explains the relationship between the different measures of profit such as cash reserves, surplus, profit after tax, and embedded value. Often this information is only available internally or to consultants. The author uses alternative approaches based purely on public disclosures by these companies, thereby enabling professionals without access to internal information to come to informed judgments about the actual performance of the companies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125827356X

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Life Insurance Companies as Financial Institutions by Anonim Pdf

Foreword Also Written By Eli Shapiro. Preface Written By James J. O'Leary.

Author : Jean-Paul Laurent,Ragnar Norberg,Frédéric Planchet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319297767

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Modelling in Life Insurance – A Management Perspective by Jean-Paul Laurent,Ragnar Norberg,Frédéric Planchet Pdf

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 mathematics; choice, calibration, and evaluation of models; documentation and quality checks of data; new insurance regulations and accounting rules; cash flow projection models; economic scenario generators; model uncertainty and model risk; model-based decision-making at line management level; models and behaviour of stakeholders. With author profiles ranging from highly specialized model builders to decision makers at chief executive level, this book should prove a useful resource to students and academics of actuarial science as well as practitioners.

Author : Darwin M. Bayston,Daryn N. Teague
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781458220219

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The Hidden Value in Your Life Insurance by Darwin M. Bayston,Daryn N. Teague Pdf

Thirty-three percent of Americans have no retirement savings or pension, according to the Federal Reserve. No wonder so many of us are nervous about our ability to retire. Fortunately, there is an asset that many American seniors have at their fingertips that they can use to fund their retirements. Most of them dont even realize it. Darwin M. Bayston, a chartered financial analyst, and Daryn N. Teague, a public relations consultant who works with providers of legal and financial services, created this simple consumer guide to help people unlock the hidden value in their life insurance policies. Learn how to: find out the things that insurance companies dont want you to know; improve your quality of life in retirement; eliminate what could be an unnecessary expense; and reduce stress by gaining peace of mind about retirement. Some life insurance companies actually prohibit the agent who sold you a policy from telling you about the strategies revealed in this guide. Find out about all of the options at your disposal by learning about The Hidden Value in Your Life Insurance.

Author : Nigel Davies,Richard Podpiera,Mr.Udaibir S. Das
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451856002

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Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness by Nigel Davies,Richard Podpiera,Mr.Udaibir S. Das Pdf

This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic implications. Assimilation of banking-type activities by life insurers appears to be the key systemic vulnerability. Building on this experience and the experience gained under the FSAP, the paper proposes key indicators that should be compiled and used for surveillance of financial soundness of insurance companies and the insurance sector as a whole.

Author : Michael Koller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642207211

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Life Insurance Risk Management Essentials by Michael Koller Pdf

The aim of the book is to provide an overview of risk management in life insurance companies. The focus is twofold: (1) to provide a broad view of the different topics needed for risk management and (2) to provide the necessary tools and techniques to concretely apply them in practice. Much emphasis has been put into the presentation of the book so that it presents the theory in a simple but sound manner. The first chapters deal with valuation concepts which are defined and analysed, the emphasis is on understanding the risks in corresponding assets and liabilities such as bonds, shares and also insurance liabilities. In the following chapters risk appetite and key insurance processes and their risks are presented and analysed. This more general treatment is followed by chapters describing asset risks, insurance risks and operational risks - the application of models and reporting of the corresponding risks is central. Next, the risks of insurance companies and of special insurance products are looked at. The aim is to show the intrinsic risks in some particular products and the way they can be analysed. The book finishes with emerging risks and risk management from a regulatory point of view, the standard model of Solvency II and the Swiss Solvency Test are analysed and explained. The book has several mathematical appendices which deal with the basic mathematical tools, e.g. probability theory, stochastic processes, Markov chains and a stochastic life insurance model based on Markov chains. Moreover, the appendices look at the mathematical formulation of abstract valuation concepts such as replicating portfolios, state space deflators, arbitrage free pricing and the valuation of unit linked products with guarantees. The various concepts in the book are supported by tables and figures.

Author : Kenneth Black,Harold D. Skipper
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health insurance
ISBN : IND:30000094671835

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Life & Health Insurance by Kenneth Black,Harold D. Skipper Pdf

This current, accurate and detailed industry guide for financial service professionals examines life and health insurance simultaneously from the viewpoints of the buyer, the advisor, and the insurer--providing a comprehensive and unbiased treatise on individual and group life; a forthright appraisal of life and health insurance industry products with careful consideration of the environment; and a complete examination of life insurance company operations and regulation. Bases financial treatment of life insured operations on modern financial theory, and devotes entire chapters to the economics of life and health insurance; individual life and health insurance policies; life and health insurance evaluation; the uses of life and health insurance in personal and business planning; government and employee benefit plans; and the management, operation, and regulation of life insurance companies. Offers a strong global orientation, supporting fundamental concepts with an extensive integration of economic and financial theory and international comparisons, and examines how today's health insurance products fit into a broad framework from a contractual, cost, and performance viewpoints. New chapters on the tax treatment of life and health insurance address such areas as estate planning, retirement planning, and the business uses of life and health insurance. For financial planners, salesmen, actuaries, investment managers, attorneys, CPAs, and other financial service professionals.

Author : SHASHIDHARAN K. KUTTY
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8120335317

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Managing Life Insurance by SHASHIDHARAN K. KUTTY Pdf

With the liberalization of the Indian economy, the insurance sector has opened up, and a lot of new players, both multinationals and Indian companies with foreign collaboration, have entered this arena realizing the vast potential in life insurance. A basic knowledge of life insurance has therefore become essential for the students opting for this course as well as for the practitioners. With this view in mind, Dr. Kutty gives in this text a masterly analysis and a holistic view of every dimension of life insurance management in the sequence of 6Ps—purpose, principles, purchase, products, process and people, in an easy to understand language. He strives to demystify the complex world of life insurance and present its fundamentals to all the readers. Based on the author’s rich experience in insurance sector over the two decades, the text provides new research insights in the areas such as product comparisons, e.g. portfolio approach to purchase of life insurance. It covers the actuarial dimensions of life insurance, with the minimum use of mathematics. Besides, the text discusses in detail the two core operations of an insurance company—underwriting and claims. The hallmark of this book is its attempt to transform the way marketing and operations in life insurance are approached and its sure guidance on how a professional should approach and manage sales, service, process and people. Key Features  Separate chapters are devoted to topics such as general insurance, risk management, underwriting, claims and financial management.  The nature of contracts in general and life insurance contracts in particular is explained.  Different traditional insurance products such as term insurance and non-conventional products like unit-linked policies are dealt with in detail. This book is primarily designed for students of management, commerce and those pursuing specific insurance courses. It can also be profitably used by industry practitioners. Finally, the book will be invaluable to managers of Life Insurance companies, Banks (engaged in Bancassurance), and Security firms.

Author : Eric Briys,François de Varenne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055453198

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Insurance: From Underwriting to Derivatives by Eric Briys,François de Varenne Pdf

An in-depth look at the increasingly significant convergence between the insurance industry and the capital markets. This important publication, by two premier financial experts, explores the unique convergence of finance and insurance. The book covers the basics of property-casualty insurance, securitizing insurance risks, looks at life insurance in the United States and ALM in insurance. It addresses the questions and concerns of investment banks, brokerage firms and the insurance/reinsurance sector itself, examines ongoing trends and issues, and how current market pressures on insurance companies do not just create challenges but actually point the way to future promising developments.

Author : Ryan C. Fuhrmann
Publisher : CFA Institute
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781942713425

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The Banking Industry Guide: Key Insights for Investment Professionals by Ryan C. Fuhrmann Pdf