A Guide to Insurance Management [Hardcover]

This book makes a substantial contribution to the general level of management education in insurance by providing a comprehensive review of the main issues facing the management of insurance enterprises. Nineteen authors with considerable practical as well as academic experience have collaborated to give an international perspective in areas such as strategy, corporate planning, organisation and staffing, costing, underwriting and premium rating, marketing, reserving and investment, profit analysis, and regulation.List of Tables - List of Figures - Foreword - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Strategic Planning in Insurance; S.Msheliza - Corporate Planning in a Large Insurance Group; J.Gragnola - Planning for the Single European Market; S.Diacon - Modelling and Forecasting in Insurance Management; M.Brown - Modelling the Financial Strength of a Reinsurance Company; S.Coutts & R.Devitt - Insurance Company Organisation and Management Structure; H.Van Gelder - Staffing Policy in an International Insurance Group; C.Nutt - Underwriting and the Selection of a Liability Portfolio; B.Benjamin - Insurance Company Costs and Cost Allocation; R.Young - Insurance Company Output and Costs; S.Diacon - Premium Rating: Methods and Problems; J.Pollard - Competitive Behaviour and Pricing Policy; W.Karten - Marketing Insurance Services; T.Watkins & S.Diacon - Intermediaries and the Agency System; H.Cockerell - Sources of Funds and Estimation of Reserves; G.W.de Wit - The Investment of Insurance Funds; M.Johnson - Government Regulation of Insurance Companies; H.Ellis - Profit and Solvency in General Insurance; B.Abbott - Profit, Surplus and Reserves in a Life Office; S.Benjamin - Index