Wiley, 2009. — 300 p. — ISBN: 978-0470823521. Authors Rifaat, Archer and Volker bring an international perspective to the growing Islamic Insurance industry. Drawing on contributions from leading experts around the world, they present a comprehensive view of the very issues governing the industry and its future direction. As top financial institutes around the world seem to...
Palgrave, 2018. — 119 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-74712-5. The book analyzes the role of technology in the redefinition of the competitiveness of insurance markets. With a focus on the competitive challenges of InsurTech startup to the incumbent insurers, the book will discuss the strategic role of technology both in the development and in the distribution of insurance services and...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 208 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-87914-9; ISBN13: 978-0-511-38677-0. This is the only book actuaries need to understand generalized linear models (GLMs) for insurance applications. GLMs are used in the insurance industry to support critical decisions. Until now, no text has introduced GLMs in this context or addressed the problems specific to...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 247 p. — ISBN: 0198788819, 9780198788812 Despite the importance of insurance in enabling individual and collective social, economic, and financial activities, discussions about the macro-economic role and risks of insurance markets are surprisingly limited. The core motivation for publishing this book is to bring together academics, regulators,...
Routledge, 2004. — 245 p. Some Muslims believe insurance is unnecessary, as society should help its victims. Muslims can no longer ignore the fact that they live, trade and communicate with open global systems, and they can no longer ignore the need for banking and insurance. Aly Khorshid demonstrates how initial clerical apprehensions were overcome to create pioneering...
Springer, 2012. — 230 p. — ISBN: 3642284388, 9783642284397 The book provides a sound mathematical base for life insurance mathematics and applies the underlying concepts to concrete examples. Moreover the models presented make it possible to model life insurance policies by means of Markov chains. Two chapters covering ALM and abstract valuation concepts on the background of...
2nd ed. — Risk Books, 2012. — 571 p. — ISBN: 978-1906348892. Ten years on from the publication of the first edition, Alternative (Re)insurance Strategies: Second Edition is a completely updated, comprehensive review of the current state of the insurance securitisation market, as practiced by issuers, direct investors and investment managers. The financial crisis of 2008 proved...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 387 p. — (International Series on Actuarial Science). — ISBN: 978-1-107-04541-5. Actuaries have access to a wealth of individual data in pension and insurance portfolios, but rarely use its full potential. This book will pave the way, from methods using aggregate counts to modern developments in survival analysis. Based on the fundamental...
Palgrave, 2021. — 528 p. — ISBN: 9783030584269. Industry 4.0 has spread globally since its inception in 2011, now encompassing many sectors, including its diffusion in the field of financial services. By combining information technology and automation, it is now canvassing the insurance sector, which is in dire need of digital transformation. This book presents a business model...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 94 p. — ISBN: 978-981-10-2233-3. This book traces the development and analyses the performance of life insurance industry in India, since inception of this sector, using different business indicators over the years. It discusses the evolution and changing features of the Indian insurance industry in 3 phases: phase I from 1818 to 1956, phase II from...
Paris: First, 2010. — 417 p. L'assurance, comment ça marche ? Combien ça coûte ? À qui s'adresser pour souscrire un contrat ? Que faire en cas de sinistre ? Autant de questions qui nécessitent des réponses claires et précises. À quoi s'ajoute la législation, qui a rendu obligatoires toutes sortes d'assurances pour couvrir de plus en plus de risques : les risques sociaux...
Springer, 2016. — 317 p. — (EAA Series). — ISBN: 978-3-319-30054-2 This handbook presents the basic aspects of actuarial loss reserving. Besides the traditional methods, it also includes a description of more recent ones and a discussion of certain problems occurring in actuarial practice, like inflation, scarce data, large claims, slow loss development, the use of market...
Springer, 2016. — 233 p. — ISBN: 978-9811003813. This book examines good faith in non-marine insurance and takaful (Islamic insurance) contracts in Malaysia, and proposes holistic law reform of the same. The first two-thirds of the book comprise an extensive comparative legal analysis of the issues between Malaysia, Australia and the United Kingdom, with the final third...
Wiley, 2018. — 328 p. — ISBN: 9781119362210 The definitive compendium for the Insurance Digital Revolution From slow beginnings in 2014, InsurTech has captured US$7billion in investment since 2010 — a 10% annual compound growth rate is predicted until at least 2020. Three in four insurance companies believe some part of their business is at risk of disruption and understanding...
Wiley, 2018. — 328 p. — ISBN: 1119362210. The definitive compendium for the Insurance Digital Revolution. From slow beginnings in 2014, InsurTech has captured US$7billion in investment since 2010 — a 10% annual compound growth rate is predicted until at least 2020. Three in four insurance companies believe some part of their business is at risk of disruption and understanding...
Springer, 2012. — 460 p. — ISBN: 364220547X, 9783642205477 Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance by individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of insurance, and the division of labor between private and social...
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