Fundamentals of the Insurance Business
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| Summary: | XXVI, 770 p. 163 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Series: | Springer Texts in Business and Economics,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52851-9 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Fundamentals of insurance business The origins and role of insurance in society
- The notion of risk and probability
- The insurance undertaking
- Regulation of the insurance industry
- Supervision and other Authorities
- The insurance business
- The insurance contract
- Life Insurance products
- Non-life insurance products. Personal line
- Non-life insurance products. Commercial Line
- Part II: Pricing, reserving and reinsurance Non-life insurance: pricing
- Non-life insurance: reserving
- Life insurance: pricing
- Life insurance: reserving
- Life insurance. How with-profits insurances work
- Life insurance: other components of profit
- Reinsurance and coinsurance
- Part III: Business models and processes in the insurance industry Business models for the insurance undertakings
- Competences and organisational functions
- Product development process
- Underwriting process
- Investment process
- Loss event management process
- Insurance marketing
- Insurance distribution
- Part IV: Performance and key indicators Financial statements of an insurance undertaking
- Introduction to IFRS and consolidated financial statements
- International accounting standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Solvency of an insurance undertaking
- Solvency II’s Capital Model
- Asset Liability Management (ALM)
- Embedded Value
- Management control in insurance industry
- Performance indicators in the insurance business
- Business Plan for an insurance undertaking. .