Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1986.

The life insurance industry in China has developed rapidly at nearly average 30% annual growth rate in premium, since the reform in 1980. The enterprise property, the industry organization and the market size have significantly changed in the last two decades, which can be observed through the four representative categories of companies constituted in different period, including the state-owned enterprises, the large domestic enterprises, the medium domestic enterprises and the joint ventures. How to evaluate the efficiency that the companies make use of the resource and contribute to the economy? How to make possible adjustment for each type of companies to improve the efficiency? In this paper we estimate and compare the efficiency of these four categories, according to the two main roles of the life insurance, (1) risk pooling, risk sharing and risk allocation (2) premium collecting, reinvesting for the high rate of return. We use the DEA method, a popular method for analyzing efficiency in management science, to solve the problem. The method replicates the input and output of the unit company by all the other companies in the industry to establish the ideal efficiency frontier, and ranks the real efficiency of each unit company according to the ideal efficiency frontier. In the empirical test, we attain the evaluation of efficiency for each category of companies. We can make appropriate input & output adjustment to them by the ranking of the efficiency. Based on the theoretical results, we provide some practical approaches, including the scale, expense and investment improvement, to promote efficiency of the life insurance industry in China. / text

Statutory reserves in life insurance companies are required by regulation laws. Regulators monitor insurers’ statutory reserves to protect policy holders’ future benefits and ensure the insurers are financially healthy. The purpose of this report is to give a brief introduction to statutory reserves in life insurance companies. In this report, assumptions and valuation methods for statutory reserve valuations are explained and discussed. The comparisons between statutory reserves and GAAP reserves are also discussed. / text

Insurance market in Lithuania is evolving yet, but this process is quite rapid. The destination of this work – analysis of non life insurance in Lithuania, which we will dispense, when we will interpret statistical information of insurance, also we will analyze paying capacity of non life insurance companies. Insurance companies calculate future’s contribution using data of past period. It would be better to correct contribution according to predictive future’s number of contracts and loss. So the number of contracts and loss, signed by Lithuanian insurance companies each quarter, are studied as time series. Several time series models were created for three principal kinds of insurance (Motor Third Party Liability Insurance, Land vehicles other than railway rolling stock Insurance, Property Insurance) and the one that meets the reality best was selected. We will analyze variation of number of non life insurance companies, number of paid losses, number of signed contributions and number of contracts. After analyses of Insurance market’s indicators, we get strong tendency that Insurance market becomes more stable. After analysis of insurance companies’ paying capacity we got, that two close private companies - “Baltic Polis” and “Industrijos garantas” – was close to bankrupt in 2004 year. After forecasting number of Motor Third Party Liability Insurance’s and Land vehicles other than railway rolling stock Insurance’s contracts we got that Autoregressive model is the best for... [to full text]

This thesis explores the feasibility of the application of statistical regression theory to the curve fitting of mortality data. Equations derived from Makeham's first law were used. These include:1x = ksxgcXlog lx=a+hx+bcx color pX = A + BcxThe 1941 CSO and 1958 CSO mortality tables were used for initial study.Extending this work, pure raw mortality data in conjunction with a modified version of the last equation above was employed. Results were quite interesting.

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

Thèse-Université de Toulouse.

Thèse-Université de Toulouse.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 235 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.