Download or read book Modelling in Life Insurance A Management Perspective written by Jean-Paul Laurent and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Life Insurance Risk Management Essentials written by Michael Koller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Financial Management of Life Insurance Companies written by J. David Cummins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Understanding Life Insurance and Rethinking Policy Management and Evaluation written by Gary L. Flotron and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you intimidated by life insurance? From questions about the amount and type of insurance coverage needed and the credit and investment risks involved to choosing a type of policy and carrier, the topic involves a multitude of issues and choices that can overwhelm the advisor. Yet it is an important planning vehicle: Life insurance is a form of intangible personal property that can solve both personal and business needs and problems. In many cases, life insurance is the most effective and efficient option.The many questions and issues involved with choosing life insurance are answered in plain and understandable language in Understanding Life Insurance and Rethinking Policy Management and Evaluation: Explaining the Unexplainable. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, this accessible guide examines the critical topics of fiduciary risk management and the creditable evaluation of the nonguaranteed elements of life insurance, focusing in large part on flexible premium (universal life) products. Among the topics covered include:The building blocks of life insurance, including mortality charges, life expectancy, and the mathematics of term and permanent insuranceRisks, advantages, and disadvantages of the various life insurance policies, including term, whole, universal, and variable life policiesHow to manage a policy after it is purchasedMonitoring and evaluating policies--an essential but often overlooked aspectPractice-based guidelines and answers many questions about acquiring and managing life insurance to avoid a client crisisAdding valuable insights on these life insurance topics, this volume also includes a selection of relevant articles by some of the most distinguished attorneys and financial authorities in the area, along with Gary Flotron's introduction for each: Guy E. Baker, MBA, MSFS, Ph.D., CLU, ChFC, CFP, AEP (Distinguished)Ben G. Baldwin, Jr., MSFS, MSM, CLU, ChFC, CFP, AEP (Distinguished)Jonathan G. Blattmachr, JD, AEP (Distinguished) and Marc A. Pasquale, CPAChristopher H. Hause, FSA, MAAA, CLUDonald O. Jansen, JD, LLM, AEP (Distinguished)Michael E. Kitces, MSFS, M.TAX, CFP, CLU, ChFC, RHU, REBC, CASLMartin M. Shenkman, CPA, MBA, PFS, JD, AEP (Distinguished)Charles M. "Mark" Whitelaw and E. Randolph Whitelaw, AEP (Distinguished)E. Randolph Whitelaw, AEP (Distinguished) and George P. Whitelaw

Download or read book The Advisor s Guide to Life Insurance written by Harold D. Skipper and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the complexities of life insurance or when advising a client about a purchase? This clearly written guide provides information essential to the exercise of due care for the purchase and retention of life insurance policies. Major life insurance terms are clearly explained, and information is organized starting with the insurance purchase and assessing a company's financial strength. It also features a common-sense explanation of fundamentals and how to determine the appropriate policy.

Download or read book A Comprehensive Guide to Measuring and Managing Life Insurance Company Expenses written by Sam Gutterman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing Life Insurance written by SHASHIDHARAN K. KUTTY and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Investment Guarantees written by Mary Hardy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to investment guarantees in equity-linked life insurance Due to the convergence of financial and insurance markets, new forms of investment guarantees are emerging which require financial service professionals to become savvier in modeling and risk management. With chapters that discuss stock return models, dynamic hedging, risk measures, Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation, and much more, this one-stop reference contains the valuable insights and proven techniques that will allow readers to better understand the theory and practice of investment guarantees and equity-linked insurance policies. Mary Hardy, PhD (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, where she is a frequent speaker. Her research covers topics in life insurance solvency and risk management, with particular emphasis on equity-linked insurance. Hardy is an Associate Editor of the North American Actuarial Journal and the ASTIN Bulletin and is a Deputy Editor of the British Actuarial Journal.

Download or read book The Economics of Life Insurance written by Solomon Stephen Huebner and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bank On Yourself written by Pamela Yellen and published by Vanguard. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BusinessWeek bestseller Bank On Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Growing and Protecting Your Financial Future reveals the secrets to taking back control of your financial future that Wall Street, banks, and credit card companies don’t want you to know. Can you imagine what it would be like to look forward to opening your account statements because they always have good news and never any ugly surprises? More than 100,000 Americans of all ages, incomes, and backgrounds are already using Bank On Yourself to grow a nest-egg they can predict and count on, even when stocks, real estate, and other investments tumble. You’ll meet some of them and hear their stories of how Bank On Yourself has helped them reach a wide variety of short- and longterm personal and financial goals and dreams in this book.

Download or read book Changes in the Life Insurance Industry Efficiency Technology and Risk Management written by J. David Cummins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Economics of Life Insurance written by Solomon Stephen Huebner and published by Irvington Publishers. This book was released on 1959 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing Life Insurance written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life Insurance Policy Crisis written by E. Randolph Whitelaw and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Principles of Life Insurance written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art and Science of Life Insurance Distribution written by Douglas Bennett, FSA and published by ACTEX Publications. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a complete discussion of life insurance distribution. It begins by putting life insurance distribution within the broader context of distribution and marketing in general, thus demonstrating why life insurance distribution is different. It then goes on to discuss the history of how distribution, as we know it today, developed, and the ten primary distribution channels that exist in the business. With all of this as background, the book continues with more detail and discusses the various functions performed by distribution, and how distribution systems are managed today. It also goes into more specifics regarding the compensation and the economics of distribution. The text concludes with a discussion of managing distribution channel conflict, and how distribution of life insurance is expected to evolve in the near future. Spreadsheet models are available on the ACTEX website to assist readers in understanding the economics of distribution.

Download or read book Fundamentals Of Life Insurance Theories And Applications written by Kaninika Mishra and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: