Search Results - subject:"“LIFE” INSURERS"

Continuous Monitoring: Look before You Leap

Lindset, Snorre; Persson, Svein-Arne - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2008

We present a model for pricing credit risk protection for a limited liability non-life insurance company. The protection is typically provided by a guaranty fund. In the case of continuous monitoring, i.e., where the market values of the company's assets and liabilities are continuously...

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Kingdom of the Netherlands; Aruba: Assessment of Financial Sector Supervision and Regulation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

This assessment of financial sector supervision and regulation for the Kingdom of the Netherlandsâ€”Aruba discusses its financial sector, which is primarily domestically orientated with limited offshore financial sector activity. The system for banking supervision and regulation in Aruba...

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South Africa; Financial System Stability Assessment, Including Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topic: Securities Regulation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

This paper discusses the Financial System Stability Assessment for South Africa, and reviews the Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on Securities Regulation. The assessment reveals that South Africaâ€™s sophisticated financial system is fundamentally sound and has so far...

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Partnership between life insurers and their intermediaries

Yu, Tsu-Wei; Shiu, Yung-Ming - In: Management Research Review 37 (2014) 4, pp. 385-408

life insurers and insurance intermediaries, the effects of these partnerships, and the parties' willingness to cooperate … cooperation increases with partnership performance. The results have implications for managers of life insurers and their … partnerships of life insurers and insurance intermediaries. Theoretically, a specification of the linkages between characteristics …

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Partnership between life insurers and their intermediaries

Yu, Tsu-wei; Shiu, Yung-ming - In: Management research review 37 (2014) 4, pp. 385-408

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Aging, Asset Allocation, and Costs; Evidence for the Pension Fund Industry in Switzerland

Weber, René; Gerber, David S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper focuses on the nexus between pension funds' balance sheet liabilities, reflecting their age profile and payments obligations, and the investment behavior and costs of these funds. The context of the analysis is the stringent regulatory framework and the highly fragmented and...

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Public Pension Reform: A Primer

Jousten, Alain - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper heavily refers to the recent U.S. Social Security reform debate in general and to the Personal Retirement Accounts proposal in particular. A particular emphasis is put on...

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Switzerland; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Factual Update: Insurance Sector Market and Regulatory Developments

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This paper presents a factual update of the Insurance Core Principles including insurance sector market and regulatory developments for Switzerland. Regulatory reforms since 2003 have updated Switzerlandâ€™s regulatory and supervisory regime for the insurance industry to bring it in line...

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Switzerland; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Insurance Sector Stress Testing

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

distress to five out of nine life insurers, two of 12 nonlife insurers, and two of nine health insurers that participated in …

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Denmark; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Detailed Assessment of Observance of the Insurance Core Principles

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This paper discusses key findings of the Detailed Assessment of the Observance of the Insurance Core Principles for Denmark. Key recommendations arising from the assessment cover two main issues. First is the fact that the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority Finanstilsynet bases its system to...

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