Insurance and actuarial studies

An indispensable survival guide for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors If you're like most high-net-worth individuals nowadays, you are underinsured, over-targeted in litigation, and dangerously exposed to risks that can profoundly jeopardize your lifestyle and rob you and your family of what they ve worked so hard to achieve.

In the midst of globalization, technological change, and economic anxiety, we have deep doubts about how well the task of investor protection is being performed.

Innovation in medical technology generates a remarkable supply of new drugs, devices, and diagnostics that improve health, reduce risks, and extend life.

This textbook aims to fill the gap between those that offer a theoretical treatment without many applications and those that present and apply formulas without appropriately deriving them.

A one-stop guide for the theories, applications, and statistical methodologies essential to operational risk Providing a complete overview of operational risk modeling and relevant insurance analytics, Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics: A Handbook of Operational Risk offers a systematic approach that covers the wide range of topics in this area.

Originally published in 1979, The Investment Behaviour of British Life Insurance Companies provides a critical analysis of the investment policy of the life insurance industry for the period of 1962-76, and attempts to construct an econometric model of the investment behaviour.

When faced with long-term disability or chronic illness many people find the financial consequences as harrowing as the disease itself.

A comprehensive guide designed to help consumers understand the American health insurance system so that they can obtain the benefits to which they are entitled.

Reeds Marine Insurance is aimed at all those who have little or no experience of marine or any other form of insurance working within the maritime transport field.

This is the first book to focus on the legal question of the incorporation of arbitration clauses, even though this issue constitutes a common problem that arises frequently in practice.

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The future of the insurance regulation begins now For those involved with the insurance industry, from investment professionals to policy makers, and regulators to legislators, tremendous change is coming.

This book deals with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and, in particular, Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) in life insurance business.

Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers.

Risk Analysis in Finance and Insurance, Third Edition presents an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the main concepts and methods that transform risk management into a quantitative science.

This collection critically explores the use of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector and discusses effective regulation and the prevention of crime.

Originally published in 1979, Inside the City looks at The City of London as one of the important financial centres in the world.

Constructing Insurable Risk Portfolios offers a data-driven approach to devising risk retention programs that safeguard firms from a multitude of risks.

Authors Rifaat, Archer and Volker bring an international perspective to the growing Islamic Insurance industry.

This is the first book to focus on the legal question of the incorporation of arbitration clauses, even though this issue constitutes a common problem that arises frequently in practice.

China's current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1.

Data Alchemy in the Insurance Industry: The Transformative Power of Big Data Analytics is a groundbreaking work that explores the transformative power of big data analytics within the insurance industry.

This book aims to explore how to automate, innovate, design, and deploy emerging technologies in actuarial work transformations for the insurance and finance sector.

This 2006 book shows financial planners how to plan pension annuities and life insurance.

Over the past two decades, the United States has successfully deregulated prices and restrictions on most previously-regulated industries, including airlines, trucking, railroads, telecommunications, and banking.

This "e;how to"e; guide shows small to mid-sized local governments, whether in urban or regional settings, how to develop comprehensive emergency management plans with minimal expenditure of resources.

Creating the Future with All Finance and Financial Conglomerates comprises an academic search for an understanding of all finance and financial conglomerates.

Are you trying to improve performance, but find that the same problems keep getting in the way?

Inherent Safety at Chemical Sites: Reducing Vulnerability to Accidents and Terrorism Through Green Chemistry highlights the use of green chemistry principles to identify and address serious threats and potential consequences caused by accidental and deliberate industrial chemical releases.

This brand new resource is the all-inclusive reference encompassing ISO, AAIS, and MSO Business Income coverage programs.

This work explains the underfunding of early insurance and annuity schemes, and proposes a new view of how actuarial science developed as a discipline.

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Tenth Edition has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects and failures for over 40 years.

As a security professional, have you found that you and others in your company do not always define "e;security"e; the same way?

This class-tested undergraduate textbook covers the entire syllabus for Exam C of the Society of Actuaries (SOA).

This book explains how analyzing gaps during the underwriting process can lead to better coverage, higher profitability, and better managed accounts.

Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses.

This book summarizes the state of the art in generalized linear models (GLMs) and their various extensions: GAMs, mixed models and credibility, and some nonlinear variants (GNMs).

The business guide to Big Data in insurance, with practical application insight Big Data and Analytics for Insurers is the industry-specific guide to creating operational effectiveness, managing risk, improving financials, and retaining customers.

Agricultural Insurance: Principles and Organization and Application to Developing Countries states that agriculture is subject to special elements of uncertainty.

Covers the full range of qualitative and quantitative techniques needed to manage risk in a financial organisation.

Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems is the first book to combine coverage of these two integral aspects of running a chemical processing plant.

Designed for Master''s students, this practical text strikes the right balance between mathematical rigour and real-world application.

This book offers a discussion about the dramatic development of healthcare business around the world during the twentieth century.

Rethinking Bhopal: A Definitive Guide to Investigating, Preventing, and Learning from Industrial Disasters is the go-to source for anyone seeking to learn how to improve process safety management (PSM) through applying fundamental asset reliability and incident investigation concepts.

Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon.

Learn from some of the most respected women in insurance and risk management Women to Watch presents the advice, guidance, and lessons learned from the most successful women in risk management and insurance.

Limitation of liability for maritime claims is a concept of respectable antiquity which is now deeply entrenched in the maritime industry.