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- How to Grow Great Leaders
- The Idea in Brief Leaders who do what's best for their business units and their companies are a rare breed. When asked to put the enterprise first, most unit leaders think zero-sum: "If I share clients with another unit, I'll lose control and...
- Articles 2007-11-02
- How to Grow Great Leaders
- The Idea in Brief Leaders who do what's best for their business units and their companies are a rare breed. When asked to put the enterprise first, most unit leaders think zero-sum: "If I share clients with...
- Articles 2007-10-12
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- Preparing for C-3 Phase II RBC - From Development to Implementation
- The move to C-3 Phase II RBC is a significant undertaking that will require input from several areas of the company. This article summarizes changes in C-3 Phase II RBC and discusses the implications for life insurers. RBC C-3 Phase II refers to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC's)...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- The Relations Among Asset Risk, Product Risk, and Capital in the Life Insurance Industry
- This paper explores the relation between capital and risk in the life insurance industry in the period after the adoption of life risk-based capital (RBC) regulation. To examine this issue, it uses a simultaneous-equation partial-adjustment model. Three equations express the interrelations among capital and two measures of risk: product risk...
- White papers 2000-12-04
- U.S. Life Industry's NAIC RBC Increases Substantially in 2001
- This report estimates that the U.S. life insurance industry's NAIC risk-based capital (RBC) ratio improved from 277% of company action level at year-end 2000 to 366% at year-end 2001 on a dollar-weighted basis. The report believes that this significant increase was caused by two changes enacted during 2001 by the...
- White papers 2002-06-19
- Real Business Cycles In Emerging Countries?
- This paper investigates the hypothesis that an RBC (Real Business Cycles) model driven by permanent and transitory productivity shocks accounts well for business cycles in emerging markets. Existing studies that make this claim use short time series to estimate the parameters of the underlying driving forces. This practice is problematic,...
- White papers 2006-10-03
- Building Trust Between Leaders and Capital Markets
- Real performance improvements come from managing operations. This article is about the building trust between leaders and capital markets. Leaders are more accountable to capital markets, and capital markets must act more rationally and reasonably toward leaders and their companies. What form should a leader's increased accountability take? It depends...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- How Capital Markets Enhance Economic Performance and Facilitate Job Creation
- Well-developed capital markets generate many economic benefits, including higher productivity growth, greater employment opportunities, and improved macroeconomic stability. To focus on these significant benefits, this paper examines three issues: the importance of capital markets in facilitating superior economic performance, how the capital markets foster job creation, and necessary preconditions for...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- New Regulatory Capital Requirements Are Looming: A Call to Action
- The much-anticipated C3 Phase II update to the Risk-Based Capital (RBC) formula now appears almost certain to take effect for December 2005 reporting. The impact: potentially dramatic increases in regulatory capital requirements for variable annuities and certain other insurance products. This article, in brief, describes the implications, gives insight into...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Capital Ratios and Property-Liability Insurer Insolvencies
- This paper analyzes the ability of two different risk-based capital ratios to predict property liability insurer insolvencies. The first ratio is the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) risk-based capital (RBC) ratio and the second ratio is Best's Capital Adequacy (BCA) ratio, produced by the private rating agency, A.M. Best...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- The Fundamentals of Raising Capital in Today's Environment
- The opportunity to raise capital has never been better. The U.S. private markets are at the beginning of a cycle that will be conducive to capital formation for the next several years. If business owners need money to expand internally or grow through acquisitions, now is the time to act....
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Short And Long-Run Integration : Do Capital Controls Matter ?
- In this document, the authors study whether capital controls affect the link between domestic and foreign stock market prices and interest rates. To examine the characteristics of international market integration and the effects of capital controls in the short and long run, they apply band-pass filter techniques to data from...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Overview of the Venture Capital Markets in Canada and the US
- Although geographically Canada and the US could not be closer, their venture capital markets are fundamentally different. Industry Canada gives an overview of the Canadian and US venture capital markets and provides analyses of the trends in the two markets and the differences in their structure and performance. In Canada,...
- White papers 2002-09-24
- Capital Markets in Emerging Economies: A Case Study of the Nairobi Stock Exchange
- Over the past two decades, capital markets in developing countries have experienced a rapid evolution. International donors, governments in developed countries and international financial institutions seem to pay more attention to the Asian and Latin American emerging capital markets in contrast to the African markets (particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa) as...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Capital Markets, Derivatives and (Re)insurance
- Capital and derivatives market are no strangers to risk, but certain features of insurance risk are atypical to those with which these markets are familiar according to the report. An underlying demand for instruments, which manage the risks associated with a volatile and increasingly global financial environment, has driven the...
- White papers
- Risk-Based Capital Standards and the Riskiness of Bank Portfolios
- Bank risk-based capital (RBC) standards require banks to hold differing amounts of capital for different classes of assets, based almost entirely on a credit risk criterion. The paper provides both a theoretical and empirical framework for evaluating such standards. A model outlining a pricing methodology for loans subject to default...
- White papers 1997-03-25
- Securistisation of Insurance Risk
- The insurance markets and capital markets have long been bedfellows. Insurance and reinsurance companies regularly use the capital markets to issue loans and raise equity. Also insurance companies (both life and general) have substantial funds to invest, and many have fund management operations that feature in the major league tables...
- White papers 1999-04-01
- Insurance Risk - Securitisation
- Convergence can be defined as the process of moving towards union or uniformity. But the true meaning is that two separate markets have started performing the same function. Initially driven by the risk transfer needs of the insurance industry, and the diversification benefits perceived by the capital markets, the convergence...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Mature and Yet Imperfect: Real Estate Capital Market Arbitrage
- The familiar boom-and-bust pattern of the real estate market has been tempered recently by an increased amount of discipline administered by the capital markets, and by the debt markets in particular. Additionally, due to the emergence of the public REIT and CMBS markets in the 1990s, and the accompanying proliferation...
- White papers 2002-03-11
- Capital Markets Research in Accounting
- I review empirical research on the relation between capital markets and financial statements. The principal sources of demand for capital markets research in accounting are fundamental analysis and valuation, tests of market efficiency, and the role of accounting numbers in contracts and the political process. The capital markets research topics...
- White papers 2001-03-01
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