我国寿险市场产品结构问题初探

一、寿险市场产品结构的实证分析（一）寿险市场产品结构定义与衡量 寿险市场产品结构即寿险市场为消费者提供的不同类型产品的构成或比例关系,表现为消费者在保险消费过程中,购买了哪些保险产品,能够享受多少程度的保障。保险程度与一定主观感受有关,不易衡量,因此用寿险各险种的保费收入及在人寿保险中的占比衡量寿险产品结构。根据消费者保险需求层次不同,可以将寿险产品分为传统保障产品、兼具保障与投资功能的产品两大类。本文主要考虑寿险内部其构成比例。     

保险业理财产品的洗钱风险和防控

保险业理财产品概念与分类保险理财产品是指保险公司在保险产品风险保障定位和经济补偿功能基础上,根据市场需求开发的以满足投保人和被保险人对长期储蓄,甚至是参与资本市场诉求的带有储蓄还本和投资增值性质的保险产品.按照寿险行业和财险行业分业经营的实际,保险理财产品可分为人寿保险理财产品和财产保险理财产品;按照储蓄还本有保障收益和投资理财无保障收益的区别,保险理财产品可分为储蓄型保险理财产品和投资型保险理财产品.     

寿险公司的利率风险管理

我国寿险业自1994年飞速发展以来，至1999年在市场上推出新型寿险品种如分红保险、投资连结保险和万能寿险，寿险公司经营的寿险产品都是传统寿险品种，如终身寿险、两全保险和养老保险品种。这段时间传统寿险保险发展很快，此后分红险、投资连结险和万能型寿险产品才开始逐渐被市场青睐。     

加快保险产品创新步伐提高寿险公司资产质量

近年来,中国保险业一直在关注着国外寿险产品的发展状况,并于1999年开始引进投资连结保险和分红保险。截止到今年4月底,中国保监会已经批准中国平安保险公司在各直辖市、省会城市、计划单列市进行投资连结保险试点,批准中国人寿保险公司、美国友邦保险公司上海分公司、中宏人寿保险公司在上海销售分红保险,并颁布了有关管理办法。目前,这些产品的销售情况和社会反响都很好。实践证明,引进投资连结保险和分红保险对提高我国寿险业的资产质量有着十分重要的意义,同时,以投资连结保险为代表的投资性寿险产品将对我国资本市场产生深远的影响。一…     

寿险产品成本与收益的比较评价指标研究——基于消费者视角

目前国内从消费者角度对寿险产品进行比较研究及相关应用较少,迫切需要真正站在消费者利益角度,建立一套寿险产品的比较评价指标体系,以促进国内寿险业的理性发展。保险产品核心功能体现在三个方面:风险保障、投资理财和其他服务功能,本文从消费者角度,着重从风险保障和投资理财功能方面对寿险产品进行成本收益量化比较研究,建立一套寿险产品比较评价指标体系,并以市场上的畅销产品为例进行比较评价应用,以助消费者理性购买寿险产品。     

投资型非寿险产品探究

投资型保险就是带有投资性质的保险产品，在提供保险保障的同时，由保险人对投保人一定数量的资金代为投资运用，所得的收益按照合同约定返还给投保人或被保险人。投资型保险包括投资分红型保险、投资连接型保险和万能保险。目前国内寿险投资型产品多以万能保险和投资连接型保险为主，而非寿险市场则更倾向于开发投资分红型保险产品，其中又以固定分红型保险产品为主。     

建议设立专业寿险投资基金

参照国际保险经验，资本市场的投资收益是寿险公司盈利、竞争力和偿付能力的重要源泉。因此，我国放松对寿险资金进入资本市场的管制应是方向。尽管现在已为保险公司提供了一个间接投资股票市场的渠道，但是目前市场上现有的基金种类显然无法满足寿险资金的投资需求，尤其是与寿险投资连接产品的复杂性和多样性相适应的基金品种更为缺乏。本文拟设计一种拓宽寿险资金运用渠道的方案一一构建专业寿险投资基金，为寿险投资运作提供更大的空间。     

中国发展投资连结保险产品的必要性与可行性

一、投资连结保险产品的特点随着世界寿险业的发展以及市场环境和投保人需求的变化,欧美一些国家在寿险展业的长期实践中,开发出了新的保险品种———投资连结保险。这是一种融保险保障和投资理财为一体的新型保险产品,它既有传统人寿保险的保障功能,又可以用保费进行投资。这种保险产品有助于保险公司防范和化解利差损失,实现良性经营运作,其保险保障风险和费用风险由保险公司承担,投资风险则完全由投保人承担。传统的寿险产品通常包括非分红产品和分红产品。非分红产品的特点是:对投保人的保险利益保证不变,并由保险公司承担全部风险,但保…     

投资连接保险的相关分析

投资连结保险是一种融保险保障和投资理财于一体，代表国际保险业最新潮流的非传统型寿险险种。在我国，投资连结保险刚刚起步，需要在发展中不断完善。     

中美投资连接保险产品的会计处理比较

投资型寿险产品是指带有投资功能、保单责任准备金的报酬率与银行利率脱钩而与保险资金运用效果紧密联系、投资风险与收益由投保人与保险人共担的产品。投资连接保险最早产生于英国，而后在美国，投资型寿险产品得到了惊人的发展。由于股票市场的持续上涨，带动了投资型寿险产品的发展，从20世纪90年代起，投资连结保险在美国的保费年增长率达30％以上，到1995年已占个人寿险市场份额的22％。保险公司既可以购买外部基金管理公司的投资组合，也可以自己设立基金，     

投连险与基金信息披露的比较分析

与国际通行做法相比,我国投连险投资账户多履行了一个资产组合管理职能,这就使得投连险投资账户与基金具有了一定的可比性。本文基于投连险与基金信息披露的比较视角,指出了我国投连险信息披露存在的问题,并从保险公司、监管部门、社会力量三个方面提出了相应的对策。     

Direct evidence of dividend tax clienteles

The paper is the first to evaluate the dividend tax clientele hypothesis using a data set of all domestic stock portfolios in the market. We find that investment funds that face a higher effective tax rate on dividend income than on capital gains tilt their portfolios away from dividend-paying stocks. These investors consequently earn a dividend yield that is about 35 basis points lower than that of investors who are tax neutral between dividends and capital gains (pension funds, unit-linked insurance, life insurance). Consistent with tax rules and charter provisions, we also find that private corporations prefer growth stocks, that foundations exhibit strong dividend preferences, and that partnerships rarely hold stocks portfolios.     

Exotic unit-linked life insurance contracts

This article integrates aspects of traditional insurance with advances in financial economics, yielding proper valuation and premium assessments of insurance benefits linked to various financial assets. Several new types of unit-linked life insurance contracts are discussed, with substantial potential for real-life applications. Compared to usual unit-linked products, these contracts offer added flexibility and/or altered exposure to financial risk for the insured and/or the insurer. The single premiums of these policies are calculated as expectations under a risk-adjusted probability measure (equivalent martingale measure), satisfying no-arbitrage conditions in financial markets.     

Testing the risk as feeling and risk as analysis perspective for insurance: the antecedents of purchasing unit-linked life insurance products

Risk and uncertainty are critical to human decision-making. Yet our understanding of the underlying traits that present the foundation of decision-making remains limited. The work develops a causal model of the antecedents of consumers’ purchase behavior in the context of unit-linked life insurance products. Our experimental approach (n?=?929) builds on the risk as analysis and risk as feeling perspective, which entails huge theoretical and practical contributions. Risk avoidance and uncertainty avoidance are identified to strongly influence the product perceptions. We complement our findings by investigating the conditions that favor the influence of both traits by investigating moderating effects.     

Price presentation and consumers’ choice

Currently, regulatory authorities and consumers ask for more cost transparency with respect to financial product components. In life insurance, for instance, the premium for products should be split in its components: A premium for death benefits, the savings premium, the cost of an investment guarantee, and the administration costs. In this regard, it is important for insurance companies and regulators to know to what extent the way of presenting the prices of an offer affects consumer evaluation of the product. Based on a paper by Huber et al. (How do price presentation effects influence consumer choice? The case of life insurance products. Working paper, 2011) as presented at the annual meeting of Deutscher Verein für Versicherungswissenschaft in 2011, this article presents the effects of different forms of presenting the price of life insurance contract components and especially of investment guarantees on consumer evaluation of this product. This is done by means of an experimental study using a representative panel for Switzerland and by focusing on unit-linked life insurance products. The findings reveal that, contrary to consumer products, there is no effect of price bundling and price optic on consumer evaluation and purchase intention for life insurance products. However, there is a significant moderating effect of consumer experience with insurance products on this relationship.     

The role of life insurance in an emerging economy: Human capital protection,assets allocation and social interaction

In this paper, we provide micro-econometric evidence on the determinants of life insurance demand in China, the largest emerging market in the world. We employ the China Household Income Project (CHIP) dataset for the year 2002 in the analysis. The timing is ideal, because of the nature of the less well developed capital markets and social security systems in China in 2002, which sets a suitable stage to study the insurance demand behavior of emerging markets. The results indicate that both the human capital protection motive and the asset allocation motive are important in explaining the purchase of life insurance in China. In addition, we present three empirical regularities: (1) the positive correlation between the returns to human capital and the returns to market portfolio decrease the demand for life insurance; (2) both the current wealth and future income of a household exert curvilinear impacts on life insurance demand; (3) the breadth of a households social connections has substantial impacts on life insurance demand.     

Does prevention as an investment strategy explain the intention to purchase guarantees for unit-linked life insurance?

The present paper examines the relationship between prevention as an investment strategy and the perceptions about unit-linked insurance on the intention to purchase interest rate guarantees for such products. We propose a framework in which the relationship between adopting prevention as an investment strategy, and the intention to purchase interest rate guarantees is moderated by the level of financial literacy of the individual and this interaction is mediated by the perceptions regarding unit-linked insurance. We find support for our conceptual model by testing it on a sample of 1017 financial decision makers in Germany using a moderated mediation analysis. The paper therefore offers insights into the decision-making process of financial consumers in Germany and presents practical implications for designing products for age-old provision.     

从保险消费观视角分析我国保险业的发展

对正确保险消费观的研究,不仅对我国保险消费者的消费行为具有重要的指导意义,而且对于完善我国保险市场,实现我国保险业的科学发展亦有十分重要的作用。正确保险消费观,是以风险转移为先,以购买经济保障为本,以互助共济为己任,以最大诚信为最高准则,以保险作为生存必须品,以可持续消费为目标的保险消费理念体系。保险保障形式是整个保障体系中最普遍、最经常、最基础和最重要的防灾救灾形式,它和社会保障共同处于整个防灾救灾体系的基础地位。     

A performance analysis of participating life insurance contracts

Traditional life insurance products, in particular participating life insurance contracts, are often criticized. Their performance is often said to be poor compared to other investment alternatives. Interestingly, this perception appears to persist although very little research has been conducted into the performance of participating life insurance contracts. But are participating life insurance contracts actually bad for policyholders? We conduct a performance analysis based on contracts offered in the German market, in order to provide evidence to support decision making by policyholders.