Download or read book Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Insurance Industry written by Barbara Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating Value in Insurance Mergers and Acquisitions written by Andreas Schertzinger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andreas Schertzinger identifies determinants of successful transactions, such as transaction timing and diversifying transaction strategy, through a multivariate statistical analysis. Two case studies illustrate success factors specifically related to the conduct of transactions in greater detail.
Download or read book Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Insurance Industry written by J David Cummins and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines whether global insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&As) create value for shareholders by conducting an event study of M&A transactions for the period 1990-2006. Insurance acquirers realized small positive cumulative average abnormal returns (CAARs), whereas targets realized substantial positive CAARs. Both cross-border and within-border transactions led to substantial value-creation. Market value gains for acquirers are centered in the U.S. and Europe; acquirer CAARs for Asian M&As are mostly insignificant. Targets realize significant market value gains in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Acquirers from the insurance industry realize small market value gains from within-industry transactions, but cross-industry M&As are value-neutral. Targets realize significant market value gains in both cross and within-industry transactions, but the within-industry gains are significantly larger. The results suggest that insurers should concentrate on focusing rather than diversifying transactions.
Download or read book Strategic Mergers and Acquisitions in the Global Insurance Industry written by Sue Copeman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Success of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Insurance Industry What Can We Learn From Previous Empirical Research written by Sven Bach and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Seminar für Allg. BWL, Risikomanagement und Versicherungslehre), language: English, abstract: Since the 20th century, the insurance industry has experienced an unprecedented wave of M&A. However, in spite of the drastic increase in insurance M&A activity, there has been little consistent empirical evidence on the value enhancement of these deals. Hence, many open questions still exist in this research area. The most fundamental questions are whether insurance M&A actually create value and what determinants influence the success of these undertakings. This thesis attempts to find answers to these questions by first examining the status quo of academic literature published in this field of research and bringing together the empirical findings on the success of insurance M&A and its influencing factors. Overall, the literature review outlines that insurance M&A on average tend to create value for shareholders of the target firms as well as for the combined entity of acquirer and target. Moreover, shareholders of acquiring US insurance firms, on average, also benefit from these corporate undertakings. However, negative short-term as well as long-term wealth effects for acquiring insurers’ shareholders are the common finding in capital market studies analyzing the effects of M&A transactions in the European insurance industry. Secondly, the reliability and validity of the findings of previous research are tested in an own empirical analysis which uses a fairly new approach to evaluating the success of M&A by using the idea of stochastic dominance (SD). More precisely, using a sample of 102 transactions conducted by publicly traded Western European insurance firms between the years 1993 and 2009, this work analyzes whether investors in acquiring insurance firms benefit from M&A by comparing return distributions of acquiring firm portfolios with benchmark portfolios using the first two orders of SD. The results show that insurance M&A trigger a negative short-term capital market reaction for acquiring European insurance firms. However, this short-term underperformance diminishes over time, and over a longer period of time of up to three years after M&A announcement, there is no underperformance of acquiring European insurers. In conclusion, based on the accumulated evidence from past empirical studies as well as the empirical investigation of this thesis, it can be concluded that M&A, not only in the US insurance market but also in the European insurance market, seem to be a viable model and are likely to lead to success for all parties involved.
Download or read book Mergers and Acquisition for the Insurance Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insurance Industry Mergers Acquisitions written by Jim Toole and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insurance Industry Mergers Acquisitions written by Jim Toole and published by . This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insurance Industry written by KPMG Corporate Finance and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mergers and Acquisitions Trends in the Insurance Industry written by Conning & Company and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reinsurance Counterparty Analysis in Life Insurance Industry written by Yanqing Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the dissertation aims to determine whether and how variances in reinsurance relationships impact insurers' financial performance during the sample period of 2002-2012. Such impact on insurers' financial performance is measured by accounting measurements of ROA and ROE and by the efficiency scores (cost, revenue, and profit) estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA). This essay analyzes how the usage of captive reinsurance affects life insurers' firm performance using multivariate regression model. Results show that firm performance is negatively related to captive reinsurance arrangements. The second essay analyzes the value effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the global insurance industry by conducting an event study of M&A transactions that occurred during the period of 1990-2014, including two M&A waves before the financial crisis and the M&A activities after it. Our results show that (1) M&As are value-enhancing for both acquirers and targets over the whole sample period; (2) for acquirers, within-border transactions are more likely to be value-enhancing, while for targets, both cross-border and within-border transactions are value-enhancing; and (3) for acquirers, the cross-industry M&As are more likely to be value-enhancing, while for targets both cross- and within- border M&As are value-enhancing.
Download or read book The Effects of Merger and Acquisition on the Price of Insurance and Firm Performance in the U S Property liability Insurance Industry written by Jeung Bo Shim and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the economic motivation and efficiency effects of mergers and acquisitions (M & As) in the insurance industry have been discussed, none of the prior studies have addressed the relationship between M & A activity and insurance price change. In addition, little is known about the effect of diversification on the differences in insurance price across lines. The main objective of the dissertation is to provide evidence on these issues. A secondary objective is to investigate the relationship between M & A activity and insurer's efficiency and financial performance. We also examine various firm characteristics that affect insurance price differences across lines and that influence insurer's efficiency and performance. We conduct fixed effects model regressions to test our hypotheses using unbalanced panel data over the sample period 1989-2004. The empirical tests indicate that the price of insurance for newly formed insurers decreases following the M & As and diversified insurers charge lower prices than less diversified firms. Our result is consistent with one possible explanation that acquiring insurers reduce overall underwriting risks and more efficiently manage the frictional costs of capital through geographic and/or product line diversification by engaging in the M & As and therefore gain a competitive advantage in pricing. Our analysis also reveals a number of other interesting results. We find that insurance price is positively related to marginal capital allocation and inversely related to firm insolvency put value, suggesting the importance of incorporating insolvency risk and marginal capital costs in pricing lines of insurance business. We also find that the price of insurance is inversely related to cost efficiency, consistent with the efficiency structure hypothesis. However, the market share variable is not significant, implying that market power that can arise from M & A activity may not be a big concern for insurance regulators. In the analysis of efficiency and financial performance, we provide evidence that acquirers' overall cost and revenue efficiency and financial performances decrease following M & As. We also find that more focused insurers outperform the diversified insurers.
Download or read book Structuring Mergers and Acquisitions in the Insurance Industry written by Insight Information Inc and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Mergers Acquisitions in the Insurance Industry written by William A. Bagby and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insurance Industry written by KPMG and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insurance Industry Mergers and Acquisitions written by Executive Enterprises (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Value Effects from Mergers and Acquisitions in the European Insurance Sector written by Marlon Sandvoss and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After declining M&A activities in the European insurance sector since the beginning of the global financial crisis, mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments of insurers have again gained momentum in recent years. The existing literature about shareholder value effects from insurance M&A transactions is limited and provides partly inconsistent findings especially for acquiring insurers. Therefore, this thesis reviews the current understanding of European insurance M&A performance and empirically investigates the short-term shareholder value effects, resulting from M&A activities between Western European insurers on the acquirer side and worldwide insurance firms on the target side. Using an event study methodology for a recent European M&A transaction data set, abnormal stock returns of the corresponding insurers in the sample are analysed. The study finds insignificant value gains for acquiring insurers while worldwide target insurance companies achieve significant positive cumulative average abnormal returns around M&A announcements. In addition, a subsample analysis provides further insights into relevant company and transaction characteristics that tend to influence value effects in the context of insurance M&A transactions. Characteristics that tend to have value effect influencing relevance include the public status of targets, the strategic transaction direction, and the transaction value as well as the geographic transaction focus besides the applied payment considerations.
