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Title Global perspectives on insurance today : a look at national interest versus globalization / edited by Cecelia Kempler [and others]
Edition 1st ed
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 326 pages) : illustrations
Contents Expansion, contraction, consolidation and regulation / Patricia Guinn -- The future of international insurance supervision in light of the financial crisis / Michel Flamée and Paul Windels -- Improving regulatory capital requirements : developments in the United States / Therese M. Vaughan -- Solvency II: a balancing act / Pamela Schuermans -- Solvency II: a new regulatory frontier / Paul Sharma and Paolo Cadoni -- The move to market-consistent reporting for insurers / Mark Freedman, Douglas French, Tara Hansen, and Therese Masiello -- Towards a global approach to regulating insurers and reinsurers / Raj Singh -- Toward global reinsurance regulation / Debra Hall and Jérôme Berset -- Evolution of insurance group supervision / Monica Mächler -- The role of financial conglomerates in the globalization of financial services : regulatory complexities and the European perspective / Michel Flamée and Paul Windels -- The architecture of group supervision / John Trowbridge -- The IAIS multilateral memorandum of understanding : an important tool for cooperation and information exchange between insurance supervisors / Peter Braumüller and Alexander Warzilek -- Uniform treatment of creditors' rights : fundamental to global insurance and reinsurance regulatory advances / Peter Ivanick and Lynn Roberts -- Corporate governance and risk management in the insurance and reinsurance industries / Cecelia Kempler -- Aggregating global risks arising from regulatory disparities / Jerry de St Paer and Michael E. Mathisen -- Risk culture / Prakash Shimpi and Heike Klappach -- Incorporating capital requirements in risk management / Stephen P. Lowe -- Securitization and insurance / Marcelo Ramella -- Structuring catastrophe bonds : a functionalist perspective / John Schwolsky and Matthew Stern -- Growth and diversification of the captive insurance market / Peter Neville -- Past, present, and future insurance markets and regulations in China / Dongmei Chen and Xian Xu -- Financial services firms in India : the road ahead and the challenges / Anita Pennathur -- Insurance underutilization in emerging economies : causes and barriers / Rodolfo Francisco Wehrhahn
Summary The book's contributors offer their unique perspectives on challenges confronting the insurance industry and how attendant risks can be most effectively managed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Insurance -- Forecasting
Insurance -- Marketing
Insurance companies -- Management.
International business enterprises.
Corporate governance.
Globalization -- Social aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Risk Assessment & Management.
Corporate governance
Globalization -- Social aspects
Insurance companies -- Management
Insurance -- Forecasting
Insurance -- Marketing
International business enterprises
Form Electronic book
Author Kempler, Cecelia
LC no. 2010014362
ISBN 9780230117372
0230117376
9781349289387
1349289388