The pace of product development remains high given its strategic importance to maintaining sales growth in a highly competitive and…

The financial services industry is experiencing a level of change not seen in a long time. In addition to the…

Colin Devine, Managing Director of Citi Investment Research, is known for his candid and well-informed analysis of the life insurance…

The financial crisis caused many life insurers to pause and more closely review their business practices, seek ways to preserve…

The current economic crisis is challenging life insurers to look closely at all of the products in their portfolio and…

The downturn affecting the financial markets is having a significant impact on the life insurance industry. Glenn Cunningham, Executive Vice…

Tele-interviewing and specifically tele-underwriting, is the most important underwriting innovation of the past decade. Far from being confined to the…

La bancassurance a connu un succès grandissant dans le monde au cours de la dernière décennie. Certes les situations sont…

Since the mid 1990s, developments in technology and lifestyle have profoundly changed sales methods and consumer behaviour. Insurance has not…

As some of the larger primary insurers go to the capital markets for reserve financing, it has become apparent that…

This paper examines empirically the impact of diversification by M&As on the insurance price of acquiring firms in the US…

Pang-Ru Chang, Jin-Lung Peng and Chiang Ku Fan The Geneva Papers  Volume 36, Issue 1 (January 2011)

This paper examines empirically the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the capital allocation of newly formed insurers as well…

One of the most significant economic developments of the past decade has been the convergence of the previously separate segments…

The expert group "Insurance and Pensions" discussed the state-of-the-art of the (EU) insurance market with members of the European Commission…

Contemporary business outsourcing has extended beyond manufacturing to include service sector industries, including insurance. There are developed theoretical arguments that…

This paper attempts to build on earlier attempts by Rai(1996), Donni and Fecher (1997), and Katrishen and Scordis (1998) to…

The fluctuations in the price of reinsurance during the past ten years have been documented recently in the business literature.…

The reinsurance market is the secondary market for insurance risks. It has a very specific organization. Direct insurers rarely trade…

This paper examines the merger of two stock companies under the premise, due to Bruno de Finetti, that the companies…

Purchasing reinsurance reduces insurers’ insolvency risk by stabilizing loss experience, increasing capacity, limiting liability on specific risks, and/or protecting against…

Purchasing reinsurance reduces insurers’ insolvency risk by stabilizing loss experience, increasing capacity, limiting liability on specific risks, and/or protecting against…

This paper empirically explores some implications of adverse selection for the demand for reinsurance. In most reinsurance transactions, the primary…

This paper examines the existence of an underwriting cycle in property-liability insurance for the USA over the recent period 1982-2001…

Cassandra R. Cole,William L. Ferguson,Ryan B. Lee,Kathleen A. McCullough Draft July 2008