scholarly journals INTRODUCING A LIFE ASSURANCE GUARANTEE SCHEME IN UKRAINE: FUNDING MECHANISM AND RISK-BASED ADJUSTMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (37) ◽  
pp. 298-307
Author(s):  
O. Shevchuk ◽  
N. Yaroshevych ◽  
L. Yevtukh
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
General Scheme ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Capital Adequacy ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
Bank Deposits ◽  
Funding Mechanism

Abstract. Life insurance, as well as bank deposits, is a form of household savings, so contributions under life insurance contracts must be properly guaranteed by creating compensation mechanism. The paper deals with a number of issues in relation to the solutions for Ukrainian life insurance guarantee scheme (IGS). The main purpose of this study is to introduce decision on scheme design and appropriate fund-raising mechanism for Ukrainian IGS providing the last resort protection to customers who make their savings via life assurance contracts. Highlighting positive and negative effects of IGS implementation, analysing sources of funding for guarantee schemes, the research substantiates economic effects of risk-based approach to assessing contribution and proposes general scheme of estimating the insurer’s contribution to the IGS fund, in particular indicators for risk-based adjustment of IGS levies and adjustment procedures. Based on methods for calculating contributions to European deposit guarantee schemes, the article specifies technically sound methods for calculating contributions to IGS fund which capture various aspects of the insurers’ risk profile including capital adequacy, asset quality, liquidity and funding, profitability profile, business management, as well as the potential loss for the IGS and market circumstances. The methodology, proposed in the paper, is relevant not only for Ukraine, where the introduction of the IGS scheme for life assurance is only in perspective, but also for all other countries with existing IGS to implement risk-weighted approach to scheme setting that prompts insurers to control their risks, provides more effective and healthy competition. Keywords: life assurance, insurance guarantee scheme, policyholder protection, funding mechanism, risk-weighted contribution. JEL Classification G22, G33 Formulas: 5; fig.: 4; tabl.: 1; bibl.: 13.

Varieties of Public Attitudes toward Immigration: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 106591292199355
Author(s):  
Rieko Kage ◽  
Frances M. Rosenbluth ◽  
Seiki Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigration ◽  
The Doors

What factors shape attitudes toward immigration? Previous studies have typically debated whether citizens oppose immigration more for economic or cultural reasons. We broaden this debate by exploring how different segments of the citizenry feel about immigration. Our original surveys conducted in Japan reveal two separate axes along which many citizens view immigration: (1) its cultural and economic effects, and (2) its positive and negative effects. Even in Japan, whose relatively closed policy toward immigration is conventionally believed to reflect widespread public intolerance of outsiders, over 60 percent of our respondents favor widening the doors to immigrants for economic or cultural reasons or both.

Eksistensi Fatwa No.21/DSN-MUI/X/2001 Pada Asuransi Jiwa Syariah di PT. Prudential Life Assurance Cabang Ponorogo

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
Linda Pertiwi ◽  
Atik Abidah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Life Insurance Company ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Investment System ◽  
Islamic Insurance

This article aims to review the implementation of Fatwa No. 21 / DSN-MUI / X / 2001 concerning General Guidelines for Sharia Insurance in Insurance Institutions. Sharia life insurance is a type of life insurance whose application is based on the provisions of Islam. PT. Prudential Life Assurance is a sharia life insurance company. In carrying out its activities to develop customer funds, PT. Prudential Life Assurance invests. In practice, the investment and insurance percentage determination is carried out unilaterally by the agent. Determining the percentage of this investment will affect customers' cash value claims that do not match the illustration. More specifically, in this connection, the author will analyze two aspects. First, the analysis of Fatwa No.21 / DSN-MUI / X / 2001 regarding the General Guidelines for Islamic Insurance on the implementation of the investment system at PT. Prudential Life Assurance Ponorogo Branch? Second, the analysis of Fatwa No.21 / DSN-MUI / X / 2001 regarding the General Guidelines for Islamic Insurance on the payment of cash value claims for customers at PT. Prudential Life Assurance Ponorogo Branch? The author's type of research is field research using qualitative methods, while the data collection techniques used are interviews and documentation. The analysis used uses the deductive method, namely a discussion that begins with presenting arguments, theories or provisions that are general and then put forward a specific fact. From this research, it can be concluded that the implementation of the investment system at PT. Prudential Life Assurance at the Ponorogo branch is only limited to administration. Where the agent determines the percentage of insurance and investment unilaterally to get a hefty fee, this is not following the DSN fatwa No.21 / DSN-MUI / X / 2001, which reads "investment must be made under sharia." Meanwhile, regarding the payment of cash value claims from customers that do not match the illustration, it follows the DSN fatwa No.21 / DSN-MUI / X / 2001, which reads "different claims in the amount according to the premium paid."Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji implementasi Fatwa No. 21/DSN-MUI/X/2001 tentang Pedoman Umum Asuransi Syariah Pada Lembaga Perasuransian. Asuransi jiwa syariah adalah jenis asuransi jiwa yang penerapannya berdasarkan ketentuan Islam. PT. Prudential Life Assurance adalah perusahaan asuransi jiwa syariah. Dalam menjalankan kegiatannya untuk mengembangkan dana nasabah, PT. Prudential Life Assurance berinvestasi. Dalam praktiknya, penentuan persentase investasi dan asuransi dilakukan secara sepihak oleh agen. Penetapan persentase investasi ini akan mempengaruhi klaim nilai tunai nasabah yang tidak sesuai dengan ilustrasi. Lebih khusus lagi, dalam hubungan ini, penulis akan menganalisis dua aspek. Pertama, analisis Fatwa No.21/DSN-MUI/X/2001 tentang Pedoman Umum Asuransi Syariah Tentang Penerapan Sistem Investasi Pada PT. Prudential Life Assurance Cabang Ponorogo? Kedua, Analisis Fatwa No.21/DSN-MUI/X/2001 tentang Pedoman Umum Asuransi Syariah Tentang Pembayaran Klaim Nilai Tunai Bagi Nasabah Pada PT. Prudential Life Assurance Cabang Ponorogo? Jenis penelitian penulis adalah penelitian lapangan dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif, sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara dan dokumentasi. Analisis yang digunakan menggunakan metode deduktif, yaitu pembahasan yang diawali dengan mengemukakan argumentasi, teori atau ketentuan yang bersifat umum kemudian dikemukakan suatu fakta yang spesifik. Dari penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan sistem investasi pada PT. Prudential Life Assurance di cabang Ponorogo hanya sebatas administrasi. Dimana agen menentukan persentase asuransi dan investasi secara sepihak untuk mendapatkan fee yang besar, hal ini tidak sesuai dengan fatwa DSN No.21/DSN-MUI/X/2001 yang berbunyi “investasi harus dilakukan secara syariah”. Sedangkan mengenai pembayaran klaim nilai tunai dari nasabah yang tidak sesuai dengan ilustrasi, mengikuti fatwa DSN No.21/DSN-MUI/X/2001 yang berbunyi “beda klaim besarnya sesuai dengan premi yang dibayarkan”.

V The Verification of Technical Reserves in Non-Life Insurance

1971 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 51-53
Author(s):  
C. M. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
Sufficient Detail ◽  
Satisfactory Method ◽  
Claim Frequency ◽  
The Government ◽  
Do So

The reader of this note will know well the method used in the U.K. for the verification of technical reserves (i.e. the net liability) in life assurance. The net liability must be calculated by a qualified actuary and the methods and bases used must be described in sufficient detail in Schedule 4 of The Insurance Companies (Accounts and Forms) Regulations 1968 for their suitability to be apparent from a careful scrutiny of these and the other financial statistics submitted in accordance with the Regulations. As the data are made public, this scrutiny can be made not only by the Government Actuary in advising the supervisory authorities at the Department of Trade and Industry, but also by any other qualified actuary who cares to do so, which is an equally important discipline. Under this system, the maximum freedom can be allowed to the company and its actuary, but there has hitherto been no equally satisfactory method available for the objective scrutiny of non-life technical reserves. However, the new Claim Frequency Analyses and Claim Settlement Analyses prescribed in Parts II and III of Schedule 3 to the 1968 Regulations should go a long way towards remedying this deficiency. These analyses are to be supplied separately for each class of insurance in each of a company's main markets, and separately for such risk groups within each class as the company decides to be appropriate.

scholarly journals Proportions of social capital allocation in the society as a key to defining the vector of its effect on social welfare

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Ganna Gerasymenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Capital Allocation ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Way

The article investigates different approaches to social capital defining as well as to the role of social capital in the economy. The author has found out that social capital can bring forth the range of positive social and economic effects,stimulating the economic development of the country. It also can bring force some negative effects, keeping a check on economic development and proliferating social disproportions. It has been elicited that the way of social capital impact on social welfare is a function of the equitability of its allocation in the society.

Money and Credit: Lessons of the Irish Bank Strike of 1970

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-365
Author(s):  
Malte Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Bank Deposits ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Settlement Mechanism

Abstract In Ireland, there was a bank strike that led to a complete shut-down of the main part of the banking system from May to November 1970. The effects of this strike were surprisingly limited. This had led some observers to conclude that trade credit can easily substitute for bank deposits as a means of payment. In this paper, it is shown how cash and cheques were used as substitutes and complements allowing for “business as usual” for an extended period of time. This paper argues that such a situation would not have prevailed much longer. The lack of a proper settlement mechanism implied that risks were rising for almost all transactors. In order to contain risks the use of trade credit would have declined and economic performance would have deteriorated progressively. Zusammenfassung In Irland hat 1970 ein Streik der Bankangestellten dazu geführt, dass wesentliche Teile des Banksystems von Mai bis November geschlossen waren. Die Auswirkungen dieses Streiks waren erstaunlich gering. Dies hat einige Beobachter zu der Schlussfolgerung veranlasst, dass Bankeinlagen als Zahlungsmittel sehr leicht durch Handelskredit ersetzbar sind. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird gezeigt, wie Bargeld und Schecks sowohl als Substitute als auch als Komplemente einen weitgehend störungsfreien Fortgang des geschäftlichen Lebens ermöglicht haben. Es wird jedoch argumentiert, dass dieser Zustand nicht sehr viel länger Bestand gehabt hätte. Ohne die Verfügbarkeit eines Settlement-Mediums nahmen die Risiken aller am Wirtschaftsleben Beteiligten ständig zu. Im Laufe der Zeit hätte die Vergabe von Handelskredit zunehmend eingeschränkt werden müssen, um diese Risiken zu begrenzen. Eine solche Einschränkung hätte die wirtschaftliche Aktivität zunehmend belastet. JEL Classification: E02, E59, G21, N14

Slowdown in Bank Credit Growth: Aggregate Demand or Bank Non-performing Assets?

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashima Goyal ◽  
Akhilesh Verma
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Aggregate Demand ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Capital Adequacy ◽  
Credit Growth ◽  
Bank Ownership ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Asset Quality

We estimate the determinants of credit and of non-performing assets (NPAs) using a firm and a bank panel with data up to 2015 in order to test bank lending against the aggregate demand channel as an explanation for slow Indian credit growth. The results support demand as the key constraint. Only demand variables affect corporate credit for a broad set of firms. Balance sheet weakness reduced credit only for a narrow subset of indebted firms in a difference-in-difference type analysis. Even so, sales remained the dominant variable. From the bank panel, the asset quality review (AQR) did have a strong negative effect on advances but gross NPAs did not. While high interest rates and low growth raised NPAs, so did past credit. Low demand not only reduced credit, it also increased NPAs. That the capital adequacy ratio (CAR) significantly reduces NPAs points to the productivity of fund infusion. When other determinants are controlled, bank ownership does not affect NPA ratios, again supporting external shocks as causal. The results suggest that apart from structural reform to clean balance sheets, recovery of demand is necessary for revival of credit growth. JEL Classification: G21, E51

Auswirkungen der anhaltenden Niedrigzinsen auf das Versicherungswesen

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinrich R. Schradin
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Fair Value ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Capital Adequacy ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Life Insurers ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
German Life

AbstractFocusing the perspective of German life insurance industry, this article starts with a brief description and discussion of the financial impact of the persistently low interest rate environment. Based on an empirical data set of German life insurers, the author illustrates actual limitations to generate sufficient investment income for to meet the given specific financial guarantees. Moreover, the core problem, caused by the use of volatile timingrelated interest rates for to evaluate long-term cash flows, becomes obvious. The currently observed regulatory interventions are trying to overcome the existential consequences of the so-called fair value measurement. In consequence, the author derives four central theses:1. Life insurance in Germany suffers from insufficient capital adequacy.2. Persistent low interest rates threaten the fulfillment of financial guaranty commitments of German life insurers.3. The generally accepted principals of economic evaluation do not satisfy to the traditional business model of German life insurers.4. Under a business perspective, the development of new life insurance products is inevitable.

scholarly journals On Legislation as to Life Insurance and Life Insurance Companies

1871 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. B. Sprague
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Law

The past session of Parliament has witnessed the passing of an Act for the regulation of Life Assurance Companies in the United Kingdom, which, while introducing great changes in the law, still stops very far short of the system of legislation which has been for several years in operation in a few of the United States of America, and which is warmly approved of and urgently recommended for adoption by some persons in this country. The present may therefore be considered a fitting time for reviewing what has been done and considering whether any further legislation is desirable, and if any, of what nature it should be.

Optimizing Maintenance for Multi-Unit Industrial Gas Turbine Installations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Bohlin ◽  
Mathias Wa¨rja
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Preventive Maintenance ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Component Level ◽  
Maintenance Schedule ◽  
Natural Gas Pipelines ◽  
Oil Platforms

High levels of availability and reliability are essential in many industries where production is subject to high costs due to downtime. Examples where gas turbines are used include the mechanical drive in natural gas pipelines and power generation on oil platforms, where it is common to use redundant gas turbines to mitigate the effects of service outage. In this paper, component-level maintenance of parallel multi-unit systems is considered, allowing production at a reduced level when some of the units are not operational. Units are themselves assumed to be composed out of components in a serial configuration; maintenance of one component implies shutdown of the unit. Parallel installations allow maintenance to be performed on one or a few gas turbines without taking down the entire installation. This allows maintenance to be optimized even further than in a serial system. However, the maintenance optimization process is made more complicated, since there now exist both positive and negative grouping effects. The positive grouping effects come from shared setup activities and costs, and the negative effects come from resource limitations, in this case the limited number of gas turbines which can be maintained at the same time. In the approach presented in this paper, each component has its individual preventive maintenance schedule, which is updated at inspections, changes in production and when indicated using remote condition monitoring. A minimal repair model for noncritical routine inspections and service tasks is assumed, which does not affect component state. In addition, previously developed procedures for estimating and measuring residual component lifetime for individual components during operation are used. The procedures are based on a Retirement For Cause (RFC) approach where components are not replaced until a potential failure has been detected. To maximize revenues for an operator, the available information is evaluated using software where scenario analysis and optimization is performed. To show the possible economic effects, gas turbine operation data is used together with maintenance and operator requirements as input for optimization of a production line consisting of a natural-gas compressor station having three SGT-600 gas turbines. Savings can be substantial compared to a traditional preventive maintenance plan.

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