The relatively young theory of structured dependence between stochastic processes has many real-life applications in areas including finance, insurance, seismology, neuroscience, and genetics. With this monograph, the first to be devoted to the modeling of structured dependence between random processes, the authors not only meet the demand for a solid theoretical account but also develop a stochastic processes counterpart of the classical copula theory that exists for finite-dimensional random variables. Presenting both the technical aspects and the applications of the theory, this is a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the field, as well as for graduate students in pure and applied mathematics programs. Numerous theoretical examples are included, alongside examples of both current and potential applications, aimed at helping those who need to model structured dependence between dynamic random phenomena.

Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy also analyzes changing roles for women; the attempts to adapt slavery to an urban, industrialized setting; the rise of statistical thinking; and efforts to regulate the business environment. Her research directly challenges the conclusions of previous scholars who have dismissed the importance of the earliest industry innovators while exaggerating clerical opposition to life insurance. Murphy examines insurance as both a business and a social phenomenon. She looks at how insurance companies positioned themselves within the marketplace, calculated risks associated with disease, intemperance, occupational hazard, and war, and battled fraud, murder, and suicide. She also discusses the role of consumers-their reasons for purchasing life insurance, their perceptions of the industry, and how their desires and demands shaped the ultimate product.

This guide explains the answers to questions most commonly asked by consumers about automobile insurance in New York State. The author offers tips, many never before revealed in print, to help the consumer, whether they are a new driver who has never before owned an insurance policy or someone more experienced, purchase the best possible insurance policy.

Medicare is a nation-wide health insurance programme for the aged and certain disabled persons. Over its 32 year history, it has provided important protection for millions of Americans. However, the programme is now facing a number of problems. The first and most pressing concern is whether Medicare's financing mechanism will be able to sustain it in the long run. Many people are also concerned that the programme's structure, which in large measure reflects both the health care delivery system as well as political considerations in effect at the time of enactment, has failed to keep pace with the changes in the health care system as a whole. A related concern is whether the programme's benefit structure adequately responds to the health care need of today's aged and disabled populations. This book addresses these and other related issues.

In der Haftpflichtversicherung bilden die AHB als Allgemeine Geschaftsbedingungen die Basis der jeweiligen Vertrage. Seit Jahrzehnten ist jedoch umstritten, welcher Vorgang fur die zeitliche Abgrenzung des Versicherungsschutzes in 1 Nr. 1 AHB massgeblich ist. Ist es der vom Versicherungsnehmer begangene Verstoss oder das unmittelbar zum Schaden fuhrende Geschehen? Der Autor zeigt auf, dass diese Fragestellung Wesentliches ubersieht. Denn 1 Nr. 1 AHB verstoesst in mehrfacher Hinsicht gegen das in 9 Abs. 1 AGB-Gesetz verankerte Transparenzgebot. Zudem ist das Verstoss- oder das Folgeereignisprinzip in der Allgemeinen Haftpflichtversicherung generell nicht geeignet, einen Interessenausgleich zu bewirken. Dies ist aber mit der Einfuhrung eines Claims-Made-Prinzips in den AHB moeglich.

Mit Hilfe der agentenbasierten Modellierung (ABM) lassen sich komplexe Systeme wie Finanzmarkte, Gesellschaften, Infrastrukturnetze, Organisationen oder ahnliches detailliert darstellen und anschliessend realitatsnah simulieren. Aufgrund der zentralen Fahigkeit der ABM, das Zusammenspiel einer Vielzahl heterogener Agenten miteinander sowie mit ihrer Umgebung recht einfach zu modellieren, koennen Phanomene auf der Makroebene durch Ereignisse auf der Mikroebene verstandlich erklart, zuverlassig prognostiziert oder auch in experimenteller Weise erkundet werden. Diese computergestutzte Methode bietet zahlreiche Vorteile, weshalb sie heutzutage bereits in vielen Anwendungsbereichen erfolgreich eingesetzt wird. So kann beispielsweise, abhangig von der gewahlten Modellierungsumgebung bzw. der verwendeten Software, eine grundlegende Einarbeitung ohne groesseren Zeitaufwand und vor allem auch ohne entsprechende Programmierkenntnisse autodidaktisch geschehen. Diese interdisziplinar angelegte Einfuhrung ermoeglicht einer breiten Zielgruppe einen Einblick in die Grundlagen der ABM.

Dieses Sachbuch bietet privaten Anlegern eine erprobte Methode, Aktien mit einfachen Mitteln in drei Dimensionen zu analysieren, um eine fundierte Kaufentscheidung zu treffen. Chancen und Risiken werden aufgedeckt und abgewogen, so dass Anleger gemass ihrer eigenen Risikobereitschaft handeln koennen. Im ersten Schritt wird anhand einer einfachen Kennziffernanalyse die finanzielle Situation der jeweiligen Aktiengesellschaft beleuchtet, um schnell und moeglichst treffsicher finanziell solide Unternehmen zu finden. Darauf folgt die Bewertung der Analystenschatzungen mit selbst definierten Risikoparametern anhand eines einfach zu handhabenden finanzmathematischen Modells. Schliesslich folgt die Bestimmung des Kaufzeitpunktes mithilfe einer Chartanalyse. Mit dieser Methode bilden sich Anleger in drei Dimensionen zu Chance und Risiko der Aktie eine Meinung. Damit steigt die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass die Chancen die Risiken ubersteigen. Das stets mit der Geldanlage in Aktien verbundene Verlustrisiko lasst sich auf diese Weise verringern. Solche Aktien koennen tendenziell einige Zeit im Depot ruhen. Damit eignet sich diese Methode sehr gut fur Anleger, die selbst uber ihre Aktienanlagen entscheiden moechten und nicht taglich ihr Depot uberwachen wollen oder koennen.

Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters covers all major aspects of catastrophe risk modeling, from hazards through to financial analysis. It explores relevant new science in risk modeling, indirect losses, assessment of impact and consequences to insurance losses, and current changes in risk modeling practice, along with case studies. It also provides further insight into the shortcomings of current models and examines model risk and ideas to diversify risk assessment. Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters instructs readers on how to assess, price and then hedge the losses from natural and manmade catastrophes. This book reviews current model development and science and explains recent changes in the catastrophe modeling space, including new initiatives covering uncertainty and big data in the assessment of risk for insurance pricing and portfolio management. Edited by a leading expert in both hazards and risk, this book is authored by a global panel including major modeling vendors, modeling consulting firms, and well-known catastrophe modeling scientists. Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters provides important insight into how models are used to price and manage risk.

"Risk Management under UCITS III/IV" shows how asset managers, fund administrators, management companies and risk departments can satisfy the various financial regulators, which govern European markets, that they have adequate risk monitoring procedures in place for the funds they manage or administer.

The book explains all the requirements for risk management under the new UCITS III/IV regime, as well as the universe of financial instruments which can be used by portfolio managers, and identifies their associated risks and possible mitigation strategies. It is therefore required reading for anyone trying to fully understand and comply with UCITS III/IV requirements.

In the 1990s, large insurance companies failed in virtually every major market, prompting a fierce and ongoing debate about how to better protect policyholders. Drawing lessons from the failures of four insurance companies, "When Insurers Go Bust" dramatically advances this debate by arguing that the current approach to insurance regulation should be replaced with mechanisms that replicate the governance of non-financial firms.

Rather than immediately addressing the minutiae of supervision, Guillaume Plantin and Jean-Charles Rochet first identify a fundamental economic rationale for supervising the solvency of insurance companies: policyholders are the "bankers" of insurance companies. But because policyholders are too dispersed to effectively monitor insurers, it might be efficient to delegate monitoring to an institution--a prudential authority. Applying recent developments in corporate finance theory and the economic theory of organizations, the authors describe in practical terms how such authorities could be created and given the incentives to behave exactly like bankers behave toward borrowers, as "tough" claimholders.

Dieses Buch fu hrt mathematisch pra zise in die stochastischen Modelle ein, die bei der Bewertung von Schadensbetra gen fu r Versicherungen von besonderer Bedeutung sind. Abgedeckt werden Modelle fu r kleine und grosse Schadensbetra ge, Modelle fur extreme Ereignisse, Risikomasse, sowie die stochastischen Prozesse der aktuariellen Risikotheorie: Za hlprozesse, zusammengesetzte Prozesse, Erneuerungsprozesse und Poisson-Prozesse. Zentrales Thema ist die Bestimmung der Ruinwahrscheinlichkeit des Versicherers. In diesem Zusammenhang werden analytische Loesungen, asymptotische Approximationen sowie numerische Algorithmen wie die Monte-Carlo-Simulation vorgestellt. Gute Grundkenntnisse in der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie werden vorausgesetzt, doch ein Anhang mit den wichtigsten Resultaten erleichtert die Lekture dieses Buches. Das Buch ist geeignet fur fortgeschrittene Bachelor- oder Masterstudierende der Mathematik oder Statistik mit entsprechender Vertiefungsrichtung. Daruber hinaus richtet es sich an Kandidaten, die das Diplom der Schweizerischen Aktuarvereinigung (SAV) erwerben oder sich auf das Diplom der Society of Actuaries (SOA) vorbereiten moechten. Auch praktizierende Versicherungsmathematiker, die ihre technischen Kenntnisse vertiefen wollen, werden angesprochen. Die vorliegende zweite Auflage enthalt theoretische Erganzungen, insbesondere Resultate uber die Fluktuationen der Summe und der zusammengesetzten Summe, d.h. des Gesamtschadensbetrages einer Periode. Daruber hinaus erleichtern nun neue Aufgaben verschiedener Schwierigkeitsgrade und mit ausfuhrlichen Loesungen das Selbststudium.

Throughout history, innovators have disrupted existing financial services norms to change the landscape of the marketplace. Disruptive Fintech briefly traces fractional reserves, the creation of bank currency that traded at a premium to bullion value, central bank regulation, securitization of assets and loans, the current state of digital currency and electronic payments. The author then looks toward the future of fintech and the forces of disruption that will change the landscape of financial life as we know it. Using over 100 interviews with thought leading CEOs, this book develops a methodology to identify financial services that are ripe for innovation and discusses how innovative thinking can be used as a disruptive weapon to attack incumbents and create effective new fintech models. The book discusses How to relate historical innovations and disruptions in financial services to the current landscape How to follow a process to identify the threats facing incumbent processes and businesses, and how innovative thinking can be used as a disruptive weapon to attack incumbents and create effective new fintech models How many fintech innovations will be constructed by re-arranging or re-purposing existing core processes In this insightful book, author James Deitch, CPA CMB, argues that some of today's high-flying fintech innovators will flourish, but many may perish as the fire of innovation consumes those fintechs that are slow to monetize their promises.

Real case studies on insurance fraud written by real fraud examiners Insurance Fraud Casebook is a one-of-a-kind collection consisting of actual cases written by fraud examiners out in the field. These cases were hand selected from hundreds of submissions and together form a comprehensive picture of the many types of insurance fraud how they are investigated, across industries and throughout the world. Entertaining and enlightening, the cases cover every type of insurance fraud, from medical fraud to counterfeiting. * Each case outlines how the fraud was engineered, how it was investigated, and how perpetrators were brought to justice * Written for fraud examiners, auditors, and insurance auditors * Other titles by Wells: Fraud Fighter and Corporate Fraud Handbook, Third Edition Edited by Dr. Joseph T. Wells, the founder and Chairman of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the world's leading anti-fraud organization, this book reveals the dangers of insurance fraud and the measures that can be taken to prevent it from happening in the first place.