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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Insurer Profitability written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Diacon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349074950
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Insurance Management written by Stephen Diacon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nigel Davies
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451856008
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness written by Nigel Davies and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309036437
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book is] the most authoritative assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of recent trends toward the commercialization of health care," says Robert Pear of The New York Times. This major study by the Institute of Medicine examines virtually all aspects of for-profit health care in the United States, including the quality and availability of health care, the cost of medical care, access to financial capital, implications for education and research, and the fiduciary role of the physician. In addition to the report, the book contains 15 papers by experts in the field of for-profit health care covering a broad range of topicsâ€"from trends in the growth of major investor-owned hospital companies to the ethical issues in for-profit health care. "The report makes a lasting contribution to the health policy literature." â€"Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Author : Chris Bradley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119487625
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick written by Chris Bradley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beat the odds with a bold strategy from McKinsey & Company "Every once in a while, a genuinely fresh approach to business strategy appears" —legendary business professor Richard Rumelt, UCLA McKinsey & Company's newest, most definitive, and most irreverent book on strategy—which thousands of executives are already using—is a must-read for all C-suite executives looking to create winning corporate strategies. Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is spearheading an empirical revolution in the field of strategy. Based on an extensive analysis of the key factors that drove the long-term performance of thousands of global companies, the book offers a ground-breaking formula that enables you to objectively assess your strategy's real odds of future success. "This book is fundamental. The principles laid out here, with compelling data, are a great way around the social pitfalls in strategy development." —Frans Van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips N.V. The authors have discovered that over a 10-year period, just 1 in 12 companies manage to jump from the middle tier of corporate performance—where 60% of companies reside, making very little economic profit—to the top quintile where 90% of global economic profit is made. This movement does not happen by magic—it depends on your company's current position, the trends it faces, and the big moves you make to give it the strongest chance of vaulting over the competition. This is not another strategy framework. Rather, Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick shows, through empirical analysis and the experiences of dozens of companies that have successfully made multiple big moves, that to dramatically improve performance, you have to overcome incrementalism and corporate inertia. "A different kind of book—I couldn't put it down. Inspiring new insights on the facts of what it takes to move a company's performance, combined with practical advice on how to deal with real-life dynamics in management teams." —Jane Fraser, CEO, Citigroup Latin America
Author : John P. Burger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781579740276
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Intro to Insurance Company Profitability written by John P. Burger and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies how insurance companies make and spend money, and the ways every employee can contribute to profitable operations. The text explains the ways insurers evaluate product and investment profitability and maximize strategic planning, customer servi
Author : J. David Cummins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461550459
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
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.
Author : Wendell Potter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608193500
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Deadly Spin written by Wendell Potter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information that the public needs. Potter quit his high-paid job as head of public relations at a major insurance corporation because he could no longer abide the routine practices of the insurance industry, policies that amounted to a death sentence for thousands of Americans every year. In Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers behind the scenes of the insurance industry to show how a huge chunk of our absurd healthcare expenditures actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits. With the unique vantage of both a whistleblower and a high-powered former insider, Potter moves beyond the healthcare crisis to show how public relations works, and how it has come to play a massive, often insidious role in our political process-and our lives. This important and timely book tells Potter's remarkable personal story, but its larger goal is to explain how people like Potter, before his change of heart, can get the public to think and act in ways that benefit big corporations-and the Wall Street money managers who own them.
Author : Barbara D. Stewart
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Profit Cycle in Property and Casualty Insurance written by Barbara D. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Gron
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Compensation and Industry Profitability written by Anne Gron and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article provides an empirical investigation of a multiple principal -- multiple agent relationship under changing industry conditions. Using 34 years of biannual data, it investigates the relationship between property-casualty insurers and agents representing multiple insurers. Several facts emerge. Average commission rates and the number of insurers represented are lower when insurers have higher profitability. Agency income is not systematically related to insurer profitability. Competition from alternative distribution systems and technological innovation have reduced commission rates. Larger agencies have lower average commission rates. These facts are interpreted in light of industry history and economic theory and suggest areas for further research.
Author : Frank A. Sloan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361512
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Insuring Medical Malpractice written by Frank A. Sloan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cost of malpractice insurance to physicians has been increasing in recent years, as has the threat to physicians of being sued. This book describes and analyzes the workings of the market for physicians' liability insurance. The authors use their own data and other sources to study questions such as: Is the market for medical malpractice insurance competitive? Has the profitability of medical malpractice insurance been excessive? Why do malpractice insurers demand reinsurance? What effect has insurance regulation had on premiums? And it explores what experience rating is and how it is done.
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Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Insurer Profitability written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xuanjuan Chen
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Catastrophic Losses and Insurer Profitability written by Xuanjuan Chen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines two potential effects of the World Trade Center (WTC) attack on the insurance industry, a short-run negative claim effect and a long-run positive growth effect. We hypothesize a short-run claim effect, resulting from insufficient premium ex-ante for catastrophic losses, and a long-run growth effect, resulting from ex-post insurance supply reductions and potentially risk updating as well. We use short-run and long-run abnormal forecast revisions as measures of the claim and growth effects, analyzing both as functions of firm-specific characteristics. The empirical findings support our hypotheses. We find that firm type, estimates of firm losses, use of reinsurance, and the firm's tax position are statistically significant determinants of an insurer's short-run position. Firm type, estimates of firm losses, financial strength, underwriting risk, and use of reinsurance are statistically significant determinants of an insurer's long-run position.
Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698407180
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)
Download or read book An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
Author : International Accounting Standards Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904230496
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts written by International Accounting Standards Board and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Poised to Profit written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The State of the Insurance Industry written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
