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New Swiss Re Sigma Study Shows: Reinsurance Poses no Systemic Risk: Reinsurers play a key role in absorbing major risks in the insurance sector. For some time, a discussion has been under way with regard to the systemic risk inherent in reinsurance. It questions the reinsurer's role during capacity shortages and the effects this has on the primary insurance sector, examines...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Swiss Reinsurance Co., reinsurance, insurance company, insurance, financial market, bankruptcy, financial; Case studies
Insurance, Reinsurance, Retrocession: At the apex is the individual who owns a home but does not have the financial resources to sustain a large loss. The individual insured pays a premium to an insurance company and in exchange, the company agrees to pay for any loss over a deductible. That's insurance. In exchange...; Tags: reinsurance, insurance company, insurance, financial; White papers
Risk Reporter: This article reviews an unprecedented case law decision the New York's Court of Appeals has held, which says that many environmental claims from a single insured at different sites do not constitute a single loss for purposes of excess of loss treaty reinsurance policies. It further states that consolidation of...; Tags: Insurance, case law, reinsurance, financing; White papers
Why Reinsurance Matters: This article explains the importance of reinsurance. Risk managers and other purchasers of insurance rarely think about how reinsurance affects their company or the insurance they purchase for their company. Buyers of insurance mainly focus on the direct insurers -- the primary, excess, and umbrella carriers that provide the coverage....; Tags: Financial Planning, reinsurance, insurance, insurance company, Risk Manager, security; White papers
Trends in the US Life Insurance Market: This article presents the trends in the U.S. life insurance market. Life reinsurance is still attracting attention, but instead of steep growth curves and new players, industry observers now are inclined to talk about flat markets and continuing consolidation. While these are defining features of today's market, a closer look...; Tags: Financial Planning, Transamerica Corp., life insurance, reinsurance, insurance, industry; White papers

Underwriting, Claims & Reinsurance: For insurers undergoing changes in structure, seeking to improve performance, looking to reduce costs, developing new areas of business, integrating and updating information and data systems or focusing on mitigating risks within the business, this paper provides support in key operational areas - claims management, reinsurance, underwriting, financial reporting and...; Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Strategy, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, reinsurance, financial reporting, risk management, financial, performance; White papers
Transparency - A Key to Continued Success in the Reinsurance Industry: The reisnurance industry is suffering from a crisis of confidence stemming from ratings downgrades, claims payment performance and, most recently, questions have been raised about long-standing industry practices, regulatory issues, and ethical standards. The collective reputation of this industry has taken a blow as a result. Several insurance brokers recently...; Tags: Quality, Strategy, Incisive Financial Publishing Ltd., reinsurance, standards, industry, compensation, insurance, performance, revenue; White papers 2005-01-01
Kalman-Bucy Filtering for Linear Systems Driven by the Cox Process With Shot Noise Intensity and Its Application to the Pricing of Reinsurance Contracts: In practical situations, the number of claims to an insurance portfolio is observed but not the claim intensity. It is therefore of interest to try to solve the filtering problem, that is to obtain the best estimate of the claim intensity on the basis of reported claims. This paper states...; Tags: Financial Planning, University of New South Wales, intensity, insurance, reinsurance, pricing strategy; White papers 2004-09-17
mySAP Insurance Optimizing Processes in Reinsurance With SAP: The insurance markets are in a constant state of flux. It is often the case that individual customer requirements or legal requirements have to be implemented in tandem with the need to optimize administration or service processes. It is therefore imperative that the chances and risks be made transparent and...; Tags: Financial Planning, SAP AG, mySAP Insurance, reinsurance, mySAP, insurance; White papers 2004-08-04
What Qualities Do Lawyers Value Most When Selecting an Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation Consultant?: Insurance agents, insurers, and reinsurers are spending more money and devoting more resources on legal services and insurance advice than ever before. More companies are embroiled in legal disputes or being sued. This article reveals how companies and their law firms are dealing with the increase in litigation and what...; Tags: Financial Planning, insurance, reinsurance, litigation, lawyer, consultant; White papers 2004-07-01
Reinsurance and Corporate Taxation in the United Kingdom Life Insurance Industry: Two alternate lines of argument - the tax incentive and disincentive argument - exist to explain the reinsurance decision of insurance company managers. The former argues that insurance managers purchase reinsurance in order to reduce annual reported profits and lower tax liabilities, whereas the latter contends that reinsurance will increase...; Tags: Taxes, Financial Planning, reinsurance, life insurance, tax, tax incentive, insurance, U.K.; White papers 2004-05-15
Life Reinsurance - A Perspective: This article explains the opportunities available in the Indian insurance market. The Indian life insurance market displays many essential characteristics of an emerging vibrant and dynamic market - a relatively high level of awareness of life insurance, a growing pool of technical expertise (distribution, actuarial, underwriting, administration), and regulations that...; Tags: Financial Planning, life insurance, reinsurance, insurance; White papers 2004-03-18
Commercial Insurance and Reinsurance Brokerage -Love thy Middleman: In the insurance market, policies are sold through brokers or direct channels controlled by insurance companies. In contrast to captive agents, brokers act on behalf of the insured, typically serving corporate clients with complex and large exposures. Direct distribution channels are more suitable for personal lines and small commercial risks....; Tags: Financial Planning, Swiss Reinsurance Co., reinsurance, insurance, agent; White papers 2004-02-01
Reinsurance 101: A Primer: This paper explains about reinsurance. In the simplest of terms, reinsurance can be described as "insurance for insurance companies." While in a traditional insurance relationship the insured seeks to transfer the risk to an insurance company, the reinsurance relationship takes this risk transfer another step and further transfers it to...; Tags: Financial Planning, reinsurance, insurance, insurance company, agreement; White papers 2004-02-01
Reinsurance: Insurance for insurance companies is an international business. The very poor results in 2001 were due in part to the September 11 terrorist attacks which are likely to cost reinsurers more than $20 billion, at least half of the total insured loss, but also to the surge in asbestos-related claims...; Tags: Financial Planning, Insurance Information Institute, reinsurance, insurance, international business, terrorist attack; White papers 2004-01-01
Dynamic Financial Analysis - Understanding Risk and Value Creation in Insurance: The changing business environment in non-life insurance and reinsurance has raised the need for new quantitative methods to analyze the impact of various types of strategic decisions on a company's bottom line. Dynamic Financial Analysis DFA has become popular among practitioners as a means of addressing these new requirements. It...; Tags: Financial Planning, reinsurance, insurance, risk, financial, benefit, computer; White papers 2003-06-18
Economic Risk Capital and Reinsurance: An Extreme Value Theory's Application to Fire Claims of an Insurance Company: The viability of an insurance company depends critically on the size and frequency of large claims. An accurate modelling of the distribution of large claims contributes to correct pricings and reserving's decisions while maintaining through reinsurance an acceptable level of the unexpected fluctuations in the results. The paper presents an...; Tags: Financial Planning, reinsurance, insurance, insurance company, theory, pricing strategy; White papers 2003-06-18
The Insurance Industry in Mauritius: This paper examines the structure and performance of the insurance industry in Mauritius. The Mauritian insurance industry is relatively well developed, makes extensive use of reinsurance facilities, and is free from the pervasive premium, product, investment and reinsurance controls that have bedeviled the insurance markets of so many developing countries...; Tags: Financial Planning, World Bank Group, reinsurance, insurance, developing country, performance; White papers 2003-04-01
When Should a Cat Index Futures Be Created: This paper investigates conditions under which the index derivatives, such as the CAT index futures, of the insurance risks can be traded by the non-insurance investors and is beneficial from the insurers' and the exchange's viewpoints. Traditionally, insurance risks are borne in reinsurance markets. The CAT catastrophe index futures is...; Tags: Financial Planning, insurance, reinsurance, derivatives; White papers 2003-03-01
Social Reinsurance: A New Approach to Sustainable Community Health Financing: This paper draws heavily on the experience with social health reinsurance. It describes reasons for the recovery gap, including uninsurable health expenses, and offers a model for analyzing the role of subsidies financed from taxation, foreign donors, or other sources in filling the gap. It examines the role and extent...; Tags: Insurance, Taxes, World Bank Group, reinsurance, tax, health care, equity; White papers 2003-02-03