Risk Margin Calculation for Lapse Risk in Guaranteed Minimum Accumulation Benefit of Variable Annuities-A Market-Consistent Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Yongjae Kwon ◽  
Myungho Park ◽  
Jeongsun Yun
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Money Market ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Variable Annuities ◽  
Risk Margin ◽  
General Account ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Consistent Approach

In 2002, variable annuities were introduced in South Korea and have shown enormous success since then. They are life-insurance products with investment guarantees. Variable annuities allow policyholders to allocate premiums into a wide range of investment vehicles such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments, or some combinations of them. Due to the investment guarantee which is called guaranteed living benefits (GLBs), the benefit is always the greater of (1) the account value of the policyholder investment and (2) the guaranteed amount. Life insurance companies set aside reserves for the guarantees in the general account. Just as the account value depends on the performance of investments, VA lapses also rely on the performance of investments. For example, policyholders will not terminate the contracts when account value is way lower than the guaranteed amount. Considering that lapses determine the total benefit of VAs that a insurance company should pay, calculating risk margin for lapse is a key issue in the VA business. In this study, risk margin for VA lapses is estimated with Wang transform suggested by Wang (2000, 2002).

Indian Life Insurance Market and Corporate Performances: A Study of Selected Firms

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Chakraborty ◽  
Partha Pratim Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Market Concentration ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
Life Insurers ◽  
Company Limited

In the pre-reform era, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LICI) dominated the Indian life insurance market with a market share close to 100 percent. But the situation drastically changed since the enactment of the IRDA Act in 1999. At the end of the FY 2012-13, the market share of LICI stood at around 73 percent with the number of players having risen to 24 in the countrys life insurance sector. One of the reasons for such a decline in the market share of LICI during the post-reform period could be attributed to the increasing competition prevailing in the countrys life insurance sector. At the same time, the liberalization of the life insurance sector for private participation has eventually raised issues about ensuring sound financial performance and solvency of the life insurance companies besides protection of the interest of policyholders. The present study is an attempt to evaluate and compare the financial performances, solvency, and the market concentration of the four leading life insurers in India namely the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LICI), ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited (ICICI PruLife), HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited (HDFC Standard), and SBI Life Insurance Company Limited (SBI Life), over a span of five successive FYs 2008-09 to 2012-13. In this regard, the CARAMELS model has been used to evaluate the performances of the selected life insurers, based on the Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) as published by IMF. In addition to this, the Solvency and the Market Concentration Analyses were also presented for the selected life insurers for the given period. The present study revealed the preexisting dominance of LICI even after 15 years since the privatization of the countrys life insurance sector.

The Pioneer in American Life Insurance Marketing

1938 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
J. Owen Stalson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
General Public ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Fire Insurance

Colonial America gave little thought to life insurance selling. The colonists secured protection against marine risks from private underwriters, first in London, eventually at home. It has been asserted that Philadelphia had no fire insurance until 1752; Boston none before 1795. The first corporations formed in this country for insuring lives were those of the Presbyterian Ministers Fund (1759) and a similar company organized for the benefit of Episcopal ministers (1769). Neither of these corporations offered insurance to the general public. In the last decade of the eighteenth century many insurance companies were formed in the United States. At least five were chartered to underwrite life risks, but only one, The Insurance Company of North America, appears to have accepted any. There is no basis for saying that any of these early companies tried to sell life insurance.

scholarly journals AN EXPLORATORY RESEARCH STUDY OF MARKETING STRATEGIES OF IDBI FEDERAL INSURANCE CO. LTD

2021 ◽  
pp. 478-483
Author(s):  
Himanshi Goyal ◽  
Dr. Navneet Joshi ◽  
Sanjive Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Insurance Cover

This paper is covers the exploratory research study on the marketing strategies of IDBI Federal Insurance, Company. In the Indian context, Insurance companies are playing a major role in the development of Indian economy. With the entry of many private players in the insurance industry, the competition has risen manifold and hence insurance companies are coming out with innovative marketing strategies to woo the customer. This was the reason for narrowing down the scope of the research work. The present paper is an exploratory research study on the marketing strategy of IDBI Federal Insurance Company. The paper seeks to address the following objectives (a) To determine the marketing strategies of IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co. Ltd (b) To determine the means and mechanism deployed by IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Applying the marketing mix and to determine the effectiveness of the strategy and (c) to understand the reasons which provide competitive advantage to IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co. Ltd. The paper is developed on the basis of elementary primary and secondary data available in the Internet and other documents and journals. The design of the paper follows a structured approach. The literature review resulted in the generation of the research objectives. The primary data was collected by means of Google Forms and MS Excel was used for data analysis. Descriptive Statistics is used to arrive at the findings and interpretation. The findings indicate that the majority of the people seek insurance cover for the purpose of having risk cover and availing several benefits associated with the life insurance policies. Further, the findings indicate that there is a need to capitalize social media platform for generating awareness to drive the market growth. KEY WORDS: IDBI, Insurance, Marketing, Policies, Strategies

scholarly journals A STUDY ON PREFERENCE OF POLICYHOLDERS ABOUT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
I. Meenakshi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
New Policies

There are currently, a total of 24 life insurance companies in India. Of these, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the only public sector insurance company. All others are private insurance companies. The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is the largest life insurance company in India and also the country's largest investor. More and more new private insurance companies are coming up year after year. And, these new and private life insurance companies adopt aggressive marketing strategies to introduce their products and to tap the potential policyholders. It is witnessed that new policies like ULIPs are introduced by these new private life insurance companies. It is in this concept this study has been undertaken to assess and analyze the preference of policyholders towards insurance services offered by public and private life insurance companies in Tirunelveli district.

scholarly journals A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONVENTIONAL AND SHARIAH LIFE INSURANCE EFFICIENCY USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mulia Saputra ◽  
Muhammad Arfan ◽  
Neni Zahara
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Test Input

This study aims to analyze and compare the efficiency between conventional life insurance companies and Islamic life insurance companies in Indonesia over the period of 2014-2018. The sample of this study was taken from 10 conventional life insurance companies and 10 shariah life insurance companies that were selected based on the purposive sampling technique. Measurement of efficiency in this study was conducted using the method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on Bankers-Charnes-Cooper (BCC) and Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR) models of the value-added approach. This was followed by testing the hypothesis using a different Mann-Whitney U-test. Input variables used are assets, capital, general and administrative costs, and commission expenses. Meanwhile, the output variables are premiums and investment income. The results showed that conventional life insurance companies are more efficient than Islamic life insurance companies based on the BCC and CCR models. Furthermore, the results of different tests using the Mann-Whitney U-test showed an insignificant difference in efficiency between conventional life insurance companies and Islamic life insurance companies during the study period. The results of the comparison of the average efficiency value with the DEA method indicated that the efficiency level of a conventional life insurance company was better than a shariah life insurance company.========================================================================================================Studi Perbandingan Efisiensi antara Asuransi Jiwa Konvensional dengan Syariah Menggunakan Data Envelopment Analysis. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis perbandingan efisiensi perusahaan asuransi jiwa konvensional dengan perusahaan asuransi jiwa syariah di indonesia pada periode 2014-2018. Sampel penelitian ini adalah 10 perusahaan asuransi jiwa konvensional dan 10 perusahaan asuransi jiwa syariah yang dipilih berdasarkan teknik purposive sampling. Pengukuran efisiensi dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode data envelopment analysis (DEA) dengan model BCC dan CCR berdasarkan pendekatan nilai tambah. dilanjutkan dengan melakukan uji hipotesis menggunakan uji beda mann-whitney u-test. Variabel input yang digunakan adalah aset. modal. biaya administrasi dan umum. dan beban komisi. Sedangkan variabel outputnya adalah premi dan pendapatan investasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perusahaan asuransi jiwa konvensional lebih efisien dibandingkan perusahaan asuransi jiwa syariah berdasarkan pengukuran dengan model BCC maupun model CCR. Selanjutnya hasil uji beda menggunakan uji mann-whitney u- test menunjukkan bahwa tidak terdapat perbedaan efisiensi yang signifikan antara perusahaan asuransi jiwa konvensional dan perusahaan asuransi jiwa syariah selama periode penelitian ini. Hasil perbandingan nilai efisiensi rata-rata dengan metode DEA menunjukkan bahwa tingkat efisiensi perusahaan asuransi jiwa konvensional lebih baik daripada perusahaan asuransi jiwa syariah.

scholarly journals Life insurance company efficiency: best method and proxies

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Wise
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Critical Feature ◽  
Life Insurer ◽  
Financial Outcome ◽  
Do So

Life insurance is a very important segment of the economy of most countries as demonstrated by the investments, premium revenue and numbers employed. Hence, it is paramount to determine accurately how well life insurance companies (LICs) perform and how viable they are for the benefit of both other industries and national economies.Three papers that investigate LIC efficiency directly analyze how efficiency affects LIC profits. One critical feature is that they show that the inefficiency of LICs can greatly affect their (financial) outcome and ultimately their survivorship. Thus, said research clearly indicates that life insurer efficiency is a crucial area to investigate and assess and that it could greatly enhance the ability to properly monitor and inspect the life insurers.This article co-ordinates information regarding life insurance efficiency studies to help researchers learn which approaches, methods and output/input proxies to use. While some papers do so for some of the aspects that are important and necessary for life insurance efficiency studies, this is the first to deal with said aspects together. More specifically, this paper especially considers and evaluates the different methods and output proxies used in life insurance efficiency studies, as they seem to be the elements where the most disagreement exists between researchers. In addition, this article is unique in examining how input (proxy) prices are used in life insurance efficiency studies.

scholarly journals Analisis Pengaruh Direktur dan Komisaris Wanita terhadap Performa Perusahaan Asuransi Jiwa di Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 1132
Author(s):  
Arya Kandrasyah ◽  
Graciala Denita ◽  
Dyah Ambar ◽  
Musa Fresno ◽  
Dewi Hanggraeni
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Multiple Regression Technique ◽  
Female Director

This research aims to determine whether the composition and attributes of female in the company’s board influence the performance of life insurance companies in Indonesia. The method used in this research is quantitative method, with pooled least square multiple regression technique. This research sample consist of 22 life insurance company in Indonesia on the 2014-2018 period. This research result shows that the female composition on the company’s board influences the performance of life insurance companies in Indonesia. While the educational and multi-directorship attributes, as well as corporate governance affect the performance of life insurance companies in Indonesia. Keywords : Performance; Female director; Female commissioner; Corporate Governance; Life Insurance.

On the Principal Provisions of the Law of Bankruptcy in England, with References to Some Decisions of Interest to Life Insurance Companies

1912 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-260
Author(s):  
N. J. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
General Account ◽  
General Arrangement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

It is with considerable diffidence that I submit this paper to the Institute seeing that there are many members who are far better qualified to deal with the subject.However, it was suggested that a paper of this character would be acceptable, and I have endeavoured to make it as complete as possible without transgressing reasonable limits of space.In the first place I have given a general account of the law of bankruptcy, following, in the main, the general arrangement of the subject adopted by Ringwood in “The Principles of Bankruptcy”, and I hope sufficiently full to make the paper useful to Students for Part IV of the examination syllabus. This has inevitably made it somewhat long and formal.

scholarly journals Measurement of Longevity Risk of Life Annuity Based on C-ROSS Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ming Zhao ◽  
Ziwen Li ◽  
Yinge Cai ◽  
Weiting Li
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Life Table ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Longevity Risk ◽  
Risk Capital ◽  
Risk Margin ◽  
Life Annuity ◽  
Mortality Improvement ◽  
Carter Model

This paper constructs a model to measure longevity risk and explains the reasons for restricting the supply of annuity products in life insurance companies. According to the Lee–Carter Model and the VaR-based stochastic simulation, it can be found that the risk margin of the first type of longevity risk for ignoring the improvement of mortality rate is about 7%, and the risk margin of the second type of longevity risk for underestimating mortality improvement is about 7%. Therefore, the insurer needs to use cohort life table pricing premium and gradually prepares longevity risk capital during the insurance period.

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