Managing risk in extreme environments

front-line business lessons for corporates and financial institutions

When it really is a matter of life and death, how do risk management strategies stand up to the pressure? Do such radical situations have a practical relevance to risk management policies in today's business and financial worlds? "Managing Risk in Extreme Environments" looks ...

The economic theory of annuities

Annuities are financial products that guarantee the holder a fixed return so long as the holder remains alive, thereby providing insurance against lifetime uncertainty. The terms of these contracts depend on the information available to insurance firms. Unlike age and gender, information about individual survival ...

El seguro de pensiones

INDICE: Noción y naturaleza del riesgo y del seguro -- Los riesgos de un sistema de pensiones -- El seguro de pensiones -- Sistemas actuariales y financieros de los seguros de pensiones -- El seguro de pensiones y los retos del estado de bienestar.

Risk management for insurers

risk control, economic capital and solvency II

This new user-friendly book will help the reader to quickly get to grips with risk management terms and techniques and how they relate specifically to the insurance industry. It also demonstrates how Solvency II is already shaping the regulatory agenda and its likely impact on ...

Derecho de los seguros privados

Bataller Grau, Juan; Latorre Chiner, Nuria; Olavarría Iglesia, Jesús El libro Derecho de los seguros privados nace con la aspiración de proporcionar a sus lectores una visión clara, sencilla y fiel de esta compleja y prolija materia. Por eso, en sus páginas se efectúa una ...

Dictionary of international insurance and finance terms

Financial World Publishing has developed a series of dictionaries on international banking and finance. As the publishing imprint of an educational institute that delivers and administers professional finance qualifications at a variety of levels around the world, they appreciate the need for and are able ...

Competitive failures in insurance markets

theory and policy implications

Leading international economists offer new insights on recent developments in the economic analysis of the limits of insurability, with particular attention of adverse selection and moral hazard. Risk sharing is a cornerstone of modern economies. It is valuable to risk-averse consumers and essential for investment ...

Productos y servicios financieros y de seguros

Con un enfoque actual, ameno y práctico, este proyecto editorial desarrolla los contenidos del módulo Productos y servicios financieros y de seguros, incluido en el Ciclo Formativo de Grado Superior Administración y finanzas. Los materiales didácticos recogidos en este libro ofrecen al estudiante un conjunto ...

Statistical tools for finance and insurance

Insurance against poverty

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack ...

Risk management

challenge and opportunity

Dealing with all aspects of risk management that have undergone significant innovation in recent years, this book aims at being a reference work in its field. Different to other books on the topic, it addresses the challenges and opportunities facing the different risk management types ...

Modern actuarial

theory and practice

The second edition of this successful text and reference presents an updated, comprehensive overview of UK and international actuarial practice and models. It offers greater worldwide appeal and application by incorporating international terminology and EU and US examples and comparisons throughout. It also features a ...

Matemática de los seguros de vida

En la obra se otorga especial importancia al estudio sistemático de los instrumentos y modelos de análisis y valoración, abordándolo desde una perspectiva eminentemente práctica. Se mantiene en todo momento el rigor matemático necesario, aunque sin olvidar que, dada la naturaleza de la disciplina, la ...

Actuarial theory for dependent risks

measures, orders and models

The increasing complexity of insurance and reinsurance products has seen a growing interest amongst actuaries in the modelling of dependent risks. For efficient risk management, actuaries need to be able to answer fundamental questions such as: Is the correlation structure dangerous? And, if yes, to ...

La liquidación administrativa de entidades aseguradoras

El seguro de automóviles

estado actual y perspectivas de la técnica acturial

Reinsurance

Pure economics loss

Today, pure economic loss is probably one of the main problems in expanding tort law. In some countries, it is associated with uncontrollable and unforeseeable floods of claims to which there may be no end. In this book, leading authors shed light on the subject ...

Efficient monopolies

the limits of competition in the European property insurance market

This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market. It provides an empirical comparison of the property insurance market in five European countries: Britain, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany. The market and cost structures of insurers in each ...

Risk management and insurance

Understanding risk and its management are no longer exclusively the concerns of experts and insurance professionals. Everyone, at the personal and commercial levels, feels exposure to risks more viscerally after September 11, 2001. This 8th edition introduces the new worlds of risk and risk management ...