Die Schweizerische Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft werden durch die Ageing Society grundlegend transformiert. Die Versicherungswirtschaft ist massiv und auf vielfältige Weise betroffen. Dieses Papier soll einen Beitrag leisten, um die Schweiz besser auf die Ageing Society vorzubereiten und...

Ziel dieses Papers ist die Entwicklung eines ganzheitlichen Rahmens für die Nachhaltigkeitsdiskussion sowie die Ableitung spezifischer Beiträge und Massnahmen der Privatassekuranz in diesem Kontext. Wir erweitern dabei die klassischen «ESG»-Dimensionen um die Aspekte Ökonomie und...

This article provides an overview and comparison of risk-based capital (RBC) requirements as they currently exist in the United States, the European Union, Switzerland, and New Zealand. These four systems are representative of different ways capital standards are implemented around the globe....

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and new empirical evidence on frontier effi-ciency measurement in the insurance industry, a topic of great interest in the academic literature during the last several years. In the first step, we review 87 studies and put them into a joint...

In this paper, we first discuss the characteristics and major benefits of the Swissrisk-based capital standards for insurance companies (Swiss Solvency Test), introduced in 2006. As the insurance industry is one of the largest institutional investors in Switzerland, changes to its asset and...

It is frequently noted that investment funds with a nonnormal return distributioncannot be adequately evaluated using the classic Sharpe ratio. However, recent research compared the Sharpe ratio with other performance measures and found virtually identical rank ordering using hedge fund data. We...