Frank Muller vergleicht verschiedene Kombinationen aus Fondsanlagen und Lebensversicherungen mit dem Ziel, dem Anleger eine moglichst hohe Mindestrendite zu garantieren. Er zeigt, dass einfachste, durch den Anleger zusammenstellbare Produkte teilweise bessere Ergebnisse erzielen als fondsgebundene, eine Mindestauszahlung garantierende Lebensversicherungen.

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.

How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety. These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that often result in valuing the lives of the young more than the old, the rich more than the poor, whites more than blacks, Americans more than foreigners, and relatives more than strangers. This is critical since undervalued lives are left less-protected and more exposed to risk. Howard Steven Friedman explains in simple terms how economists and data scientists at corporations, regulatory agencies, and insurance companies develop and use these price tags and points a spotlight at their logical flaws and limitations. He then forcefully argues against the rampant unfairness in the system. Readers will be enlightened, shocked, and, ultimately, empowered to confront the price tags we assign to human lives and understand why such calculations matter.

Antje Musil verdeutlicht den engen Zusammenhang zwischen der Eigenverantwortung des Patienten und der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung. Sie entwickelt ein Vergutungssystem, das die Entlohnung des Arztes starker an das Leistungsergebnis knupft und so fur eine starkere Patientenorientierung des Leistungserbringers sorgt.

Torsten Grzebiela identifiziert spezifische Risiken des Internets. Auf der Basis eines komplementaren Ansatzes zur Handhabung der Internet-Risiken untersucht er technische Sicherungsmassnahmen, vertrauensbildende Massnahmen und oekonomische Instrumente zur Risikobegrenzung.

Uta Elisabeth Hagen untersucht Zielsetzung, Methodik und Einsatzmoglichkeiten von Portfolio-Insurance-Konzepten. Sie prasentiert umfangreiche Erkenntnisse zu speziellen Portfolio-Insurance-Strategien auf der Basis von Monte-Carlo-Simulationen und eines Backtestings fur den deutschen Finanzmarktmarkt anhand des DAX30-Performanceindexes sowie der REX-Renditen.

Martin Johanntoberens analysiert das Zusammenspiel von Underwriting (Risikozeichnung) und Risiko-Management (naturwissenschaftlich-technische Risikoabschatzung) bei Entscheidungsfindungen in Fragen der Versicherbarkeit. Seiner empirischen Analyse zufolge orientieren sich Industrie-Haftpflichtversicherer primar an wirtschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten: Risikomanagement scheint uberwiegend der Aussendarstellung und der Gewinnung von Legitimitat zu dienen.
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Reinhard Lahusen entwickelt drei eigene Modelle, die er mit vorhandenen Modellen vergleicht, wobei grundsatzliche Kriterien des Asset-Managements sowie Anforderungen des deutschen Alterssicherungssystems und der Praktikabilitat berucksichtigt werden."

As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of single-payer national health insurance. Beyond the debate about the desirability of Canadian-style health care reforms, Antonia Maioni sees another question: Why did the United States and Canada, alike in so many ways, part "at the crossroads" to produce such different systems of health insurance? She answers this previously neglected query so interestingly that her book will hold the attention of anyone concerned with health care in either country or both.

The author explores the development of health insurance in the United States and Canada, from the emergence of health care as a political issue in the 1930s to the passage of federal health insurance legislation in the 1960s. Focusing on how political institutions influence policy development, she shows that Canada's federal structure and its parliamentary institutions encouraged a social-democratic third party that became pivotal in demonstrating the feasibility of universal, public health insurance. Meanwhile, the constraints of the U.S. political system forced health care reformers to temper their own ideas to appeal to a wide coalition within the Democratic party. Even readers previously unfamiliar with Canadian politics will find in this book important clues about the "realm of the possible" in the uncertain future of U.S. health care.

Die Notwendigkeit eines Customer Value Managements in Franchisesystemen resultiert aus der Tatsache, dass der Erfolg des Franchisegebers uber die Franchisegebuhr bzw. Handelsspanne an den Erfolg des Franchisenehmers gekoppelt ist. Geht man davon aus, dass der Franchisegeber primar an einer angemessenen Verzinsung seines in das Franchisesystem investierten Eigenkapitals interessiert ist, sind alle Aktivitaten des Franchisegebers zur planmassigen Gestaltung der Beziehung zum Franchisenehmer an diesem Ziel auszurichten. Folglich sind die einzelnen Franchisegeber-Franchisenehmer-Bezie-hungen jeweils als (Teil-)Inves-titionen zu begreifen, deren Vorteilhaftigkeit sich anhand des Partner Value (PV) bemisst. Eva-Maria Gust entwickelt ein Konzept zur Franchisenehmer-Bewertung. Zur Ermittlung des Partner Value wird auf das Modell des Vollstandigen Finanzplans (VOFIs) und Markov-Prozesse als Verfahren zur Prognose der originaren franchisenehmerbezogenen Zahlungen zuruckgegriffen. Anhand des Partner Value lasst sich fruhzeitig erkennen, ob sich die Franchisenehmer hinsichtlich der obersten Zielsetzung des Franchisegebers optimal entwickeln werden und welche Ansatzpunkte fur wertsteigernde Massnahmen existieren.

This book, the second one of three volumes, gives practical examples by a number of use cases showing how to take first steps in the digital journey of banks and insurance companies. The angle shifts over the volumes from a business-driven approach in "Disruption and DNA" to a strong technical focus in "Data Storage, Processing and Analysis", leaving "Digitalization and Machine Learning Applications" with the business and technical aspects in-between. This second volume mainly emphasizes use cases as well as the methods and technologies applied to drive digital transformation (such as processes, leveraging computational power and machine learning models).

Actuaries have access to a wealth of individual data in pension and insurance portfolios, but rarely use its full potential. This book will pave the way, from methods using aggregate counts to modern developments in survival analysis. Based on the fundamental concept of the hazard rate, Part I shows how and why to build statistical models, based on data at the level of the individual persons in a pension scheme or life insurance portfolio. Extensive use is made of the R statistics package. Smooth models, including regression and spline models in one and two dimensions, are covered in depth in Part II. Finally, Part III uses multiple-state models to extend survival models beyond the simple life/death setting, and includes a brief introduction to the modern counting process approach. Practising actuaries will find this book indispensable, and students will find it helpful when preparing for their professional examinations.

Risks can be identified, evaluated, and mitigated, but the underlying uncertainty remains elusive. Risk is present across all industries and sectors. As a result, organizations and governments worldwide are currently experiencing higher levels of risk and have had to make risky decisions during times of crisis and instability, including the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and climate perils, and global tensions surrounding terrorism. It is essential that new studies are undertaken to understand strategies taken during these times to better equip business leaders to navigate risk management in the future. Global Risk and Contingency Management Research in Times of Crisis examines the impact of crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, which has tested organizational risk and contingency management plans. It provides significant insights that should benefit business leaders on risk and contingency management in times of crisis. It emphasizes strategies that leaders can undertake to identify potential future risks and examines decisions made in past crises that can act as examples of what to do and what not to do during future crisis events. Covering topics such as auditing theories, risk assessment, and educational inequality, this premier reference source is a crucial resource for business leaders, executives, managers, decision makers, policymakers, students, government officials, entrepreneurs, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Die demographische und gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung erfordert eine neue Konzeption der deutschen Alterssicherung. Anke Steenbock entwickelt eine solche Konzeption, indem sie Anregungen aus dem Ausland aufnimmt und Ruckschlusse aus theoretischen Analysen zieht."