Insurance and actuarial studies

This textbook presents the fundamental economic dimensions of insurance companies and links them to managerial issues.

The National Underwriter Sales Essentials Series combines all of the most practical, proven sales techniques advisors, agents, brokers, producers, sales managers or agency owners need to convert prospects into customers, win new business, and to grow sales.

This book bridges the gap between the accounting and the actuarial sides of Indian life insurance companies, by exploring the relationships between the embedded value calculated by actuaries and the revenue account and balance sheet prepared by the accountants.

Financial services are an ever increasing part of the infrastructure of everyday life.

A comprehensive guide to current issues and practices in governance for Takaful and re-Takaful operations As the global demand for Islamic insurance products increases, a thorough understanding of Takaful principles is vital for accountants, auditors, and leaders of companies offering these products.

Reinsurance is an invisible service industry which enables insurance companies to insure more risks and to make better use of their resources.

The Wedge offers a powerful, proven technique to distinguish you from the incumbent agent and help you win new business.

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.

Conservative icon Steve Forbes returns with his most powerful and provocative ideas yetThe United States has been through one of the most tumultuous decades in recent history.

The business of reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, went largely unnoticed outside the expert community.

This is the fourth edition of our popular professional resource specifically tailored for non-insurance professionals, newly revised with an increased emphasis on techniques that can be used for personal and business clients.

Originally published in 1985, Capital City: London as a Financial Centre proves in depth analytical description of the financial institutions of the City of London.

This book reviews some of the most recent developments in neural networks, with a focus on applications in actuarial sciences and finance.

This book establishes a framework for assessing health care reform proposals and their implementation.

Examining the law of export credit insurance and export credit guarantees, this book clarifies the legal nature of ECI and ECGs as insurance and guarantees respectively by comparing their legal characteristics regarding contract formation process, terms and conditions, duty of fair presentation, claim handling process and subrogation and recoveries.

Using institutional theory to explain innovation and merging academic and critical analysis with practical recommendations, this book provides a full and rich account of how new products are brought to market; considering both the successes and failures in equal measure.

A complete guide to the theory and practice of volatility models in financial engineering Volatility has become a hot topic in this era of instant communications, spawning a great deal of research in empirical finance and time series econometrics.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the granularity theory and its usefulness for risk analysis, statistical estimation, and derivative pricing.

Balancing rigor and intuition, the new edition of this first course in risk theory has added exercises and expands on contemporary topics.

The Advisor's Guide to Commercial Real Estate Investment is the only single volume A-Z guide to commercial real estate investment available today.

Life insurance remains one of the cornerstones of financial planning.

An incisive look at the war for market share in the Asian life insurance market Although the life insurance industry in Asia has emerged from the financial crisis stronger than ever, it has not escaped unchanged.

Provides a comprehensive coverage of both the deterministic and stochastic models of life contingencies, risk theory, credibility theory, multi-state models, and an introduction to modern mathematical nance.

This second volume examines practical real-life applications of predictive modeling to forecast future events with an emphasis on insurance.

This book is timely since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision at the Bank for International Settlements is in the process of making major changes in the capital rules for banks.

Risk Analysis and the Security Survey, Third Edition, provides an understanding of the basic principles of risk analysis.

Young people face unprecedented financial challenges: rising student debt, stiff competition for jobs, barriers to home ownership, dwindling state benefits and prospects of a longer working life.

Focuses on client needs and client interactionsProvides in-depth explanations of different types of annuities as well as annuity-based vocabularyOffers helpful review questions at the end of each chapter to reinforce information learnedProvides information about the SECURE Act and how it affects annuity beneficiariesNew in the 6th Edition:Shift in overall focus, starting with client needs and describing the related annuities products that meet those needs.

Why do some managers shine during a high-level crisis while others stumble?

Requiring only a background in high school algebra, Kaminsky's Financial Literacy: Introduction to the Mathematics of Interest, Annuities, and Insurance uses an innovative approach in order to make today's college student literate in such financial matters as loans, pensions, and insurance.

This insightful and practical two volume resource was envisioned and written by nationally renowned expert Barry Zalma, and it thoroughly explains how to identify construction defects and how to insure, investigate, prosecute, and defend cases that result from construction defect claims.

Target Market Series: Restaurants is a valuable asset to insurance and risk management professionals who are looking for exposure, risk management, and insurance information that is focused solely on the restaurant industry.

The Barbara Weinstock LecturesThis title was originally published in 1941.

The digital transformation of finance and banking enables traditional services to be delivered in a more effective and efficient way but, at the same time, presents crucial issues such as fast-growing new asset classes, new currencies, datafication and data privacy, algorithmization of law and regulation and, last but not least, new models of financial crime.

A comprehensive and impartial survey of every type of insurance undertaken by various states.

Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy.

Predictive Medicine makes artificial intelligence more accessible for healthcare practitioners without shying away from complex topics and controversial subject matter.

Given the current activities of SEC and state securities regulators, as well as the changing business and communication landscapes, investment advisors today must keep current with developments affecting compliance at all levels and in all jurisdictions.

Despite the importance of insurance in enabling individual and collective social, economic, and financial activities, discussions about the macroeconomic role and risks of insurance markets are surprisingly limited.

Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered.

Insurance Market Integration in the European Union offers an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms of insurance market integration and measures the degrees of this integration.

The Wiley Paperback Series makes valuable content more accessible to a new generation of statisticians, mathematicians and scientists.

Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business.

This unique book is a guide for students and graduates of mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, and other number-based disciplines contemplating a career in actuarial science.

This book delves into the many innovative changes that the financial industry has undergone in recent years.

This book examines the challenges for the life insurance sector in Europe arising from new technologies, socio-cultural and demographic trends, and the financial crisis.

Roughly 40 million Americans have no health insurance, private or public, and the number has grown steadily over the past 25 years.

At this critical point in your Business Continuity Management studies and research, you need one definitive, comprehensive professional textbook that will take you to the next step.