This thesis examines the impact of government action on the professional organisation of New Zealand counselling. In the late 1980s the government opened up opportunities for counsellors to gain funding for a new client group: people who had experienced sexual abuse. This opportunity to expand the coverage of clients for some counsellors encouraged counsellors to use the rhetoric of professionalisation as a strategy to improve their status and credibility in the eyes of the public and government. The same rhetoric provided justification for government to endorse the counsellors' professionalisation project. The thesis provides an account of the ways in which both government and diverse groups of counsellors used the rhetoric of professionalisation as a strategy to enforce and negotiate claims over occupational jurisdiction. Despite well documented sociological criticisms of linear or trait theories of professionalisation, their face validity is still widely accepted within professions. The thesis demonstrates how counsellors used a version of trait theories to guide their policies and actions. It shows how they combined this strategy with the active involvement of government in their professionalisation project. The combined strategy involved simultaneous competition and co-operation between and among counsellors and government personnel. The thesis suggests that counselling's professionalisation project in New Zealand would be better understood as a complex set of shifting arrangements between government and aspirant diverse professional groups. My work is based on the analysis of documents from, and interviews with personnel in, the New Zealand Association of Counsellors, university-based counsellor education programmes and the government agency that provides funding for specific types of counselling (the Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation Insurance Company).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-243). Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

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The graduation thesis addresses the problems of managing and measuring of financial risks in activities of insurance companies. The first chapter handles the definitions of the financial risk and it classification. The second chapter defines a random variable returns of measure of financial assets. Sets up formulas of the return measure and also focuses on problem of time aggregation. The third chapter theoretically describes methodology of value at risk as the most widely used method for measuring and managing risk by insurance companies and regulatory authority. The fourth chapter contains an empirical study from practice which compares the two basic method of computing value at risk. The fifth chapter is the main part of the graduation thesis and focuses on verifying of the model and his imperfections. It verifies also achievements of initial assumptions. The sixth chapter targets on possibilities of extension value at risk method by liquidity risk incorporation.

This thesis analyzes the impact of selected macroeconomic and firm-specific factors on stock prices of insurance companies. The first part describes four financial theories used to explain the share price development with a focus on fundamental analysis. The aim of the next part is empirical verification of the strong relationship between selected variables in the period from 01/2003 to 01/2013. In case of its existence, the econometric models using correlation and regression analysis are built. Considering the chosen period of time the impact of the financial crisis on potencial changes of direction and intensity of this relationship can be seen. The analysis uses real-world data from MetLife. The last chapter also describes its characteristics and compares them with the industry.

Financial supervision department has loosened restrictions on insurance company’s holdings on capital market, aiming to give full play to the insurance funds which typically have the strengths of large scale, long investment horizon and stable supply. Nevertheless, some insurance companies carry out unfriendly behaviors through capital superiority, which may cause volatility of stock prices. Based on this, the paper mainly studies the insurance funds and volatility spillover of individual stocks as well as the entire capital market. This paper uses a framework of econometric methods based on vector autoregressive mode, and selects the 2016—2020 quarterly data from the SSE A-share disclosure. The results reveal that on one hand, price fluctuation has a unidirectional spillover effect on insurance companies’ changes in ownership. On the other hand, insurance companies’ changes in ownership also have a unidirectional spillover effect on volatility of the SSE index. / Business Administration/Finance

The content of the dissertation is an analysis of capital life insurance products offered by AXA insurance company a.s. in comparison to the offer of chosen commercial insurance companies. The result of the dissertation is an improvement suggestion of insurance products on this company in the field of capital life insurance

My grade essay is about investment life insurance comparing betwin Kooperative, a.s. to another competition a theirselves chosen products. The result of my essay is suggestion how to improove isurance produkt for thes company in field life insurance investment.