Die Krise der Umlagefinanzierung der sozialen Sicherung, insbesondere der Alterssicherung, lässt die Forderung nach einem Wechsel auf kapitalgedeckte Systeme stärker werden. Diese werden in der Regel als weniger anfällig gegenüber demographischen Veränderungen angesehen. Allerdings sehen...

Purpose – This paper aims to empirically investigate the relationship between the level of compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code’s (GCGC) recommendations and the implied cost of equity capital (ICC). German listed companies are required by law to annually disclose their...

Insurance companies increasingly augment their financial reports by releasing actuarial measures—the so-called embedded value—to supply information about the value of their life insurance activities. Both accounting and actuarial measures differ with respect to the timeliness of profit...