论保险公司合规风险管理体系的构建

我国现行保险公司的合规管理体制缺乏科学的程序、有效的组织保障和系统性,是一种模糊低效的运作方式,需要大力推广和普及全新的合规管理理念,设置统一的合规规划和管理部门,加强对一线员工的系统培训和指导,确保检查部门独立于业务活动。     

Risk management in life insurance companies: Evidence from Taiwan

The solvency issue of life insurance companies has become more important in recent years as business risks turn increasingly greater. This study examines the relationship among investing risk, underwriting risk, and the capital ratio during the post risk-based capital regulation period of 2004–2009 in Taiwan. In addition to the two-stage least square regression (2SLS), we also adopt the two-stage quantile regression (2SQR) to capture the effects of low capital (or risk) levels and high capital (or risk) levels. 2SLS do not fully explain the capital-risk relation. Contrary to previous evidence reported in the U.S., our findings in 2SQR model indicate that the relationship between capital and underwriting risk is positive, while the relationship between investing risk and capital shows a reverse pattern. Overall, the 2SQR provides stronger evidence than the 2SLS.     

A non-parametric statistical model for the control of Italian insurance companies

The problem of evaluating the solvency of insurance companies is tackled through the use of a non-parametric statistical model, constructed using decision-tree techniques. The model is tested on a sample of Italian non-life insurance companies and its performance over the test period compared with those of linear and quadratic parametric models.

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Riassunto Il problema della valutazione della solvibilità delle imprese di assicurazione è affrontato con l'impiego di un modello statistico non parametrico, costruito con le tecniche degli alberi delle decisioni. Viene proposta una sperimentazione del modello su un campione di imprese assicuratrici italiane operanti nei rami nonvita ed effettuata una analisi comparata intertemporale con gli standards di efficienza registrati su modelli parametrici lineare e quadratico.

     

Regulation of road accident externalities when insurance companies have market power

Accident externalities that individual drivers impose on one another via their presence on the road are among the most important external costs of road transport. We study the regulation of these externalities when insurance companies have market power. Some of the results we derive have close resemblance to the earlier literature on externality regulation with market power in aviation and private roads, but there are important differences, too. Using analytical models, we compare the first-best public welfare-maximizing outcome with a private profit-maximizing monopoly, and oligopoly. We find that insurance companies will internalize some of the externalities, depending on their degree of market power. We derive optimal insurance premiums, and regular parametric taxes as well as “manipulable” ones that make the companies set socially optimal premiums. The latter take into account that the firm tries to exploit knowledge of the tax rule applied by the government. Finally, we also study the taxation of road users rather than that of firms.     

中国产险业的再保行为与公司特征关系研究

再保险具有分散风险,提高承保能力,稳定财务业务等功能.以14家财产保险公司为样本,采用面板回归模型进行分析,结果发现:随着市场集中度的下降,分出比例呈现逐年上升;企业市场份额越大,分出比例越高;代理业务比重高的产险企业,存在不愿意分保情况;分出比例政策的制定缺乏前瞻性;成立时间越久的企业,分出比例相对越小.     

长寿风险对保险公司年金产品的影响及解决方案

人口老龄化和养老保险制度改革为保险公司年金业务发展提供了巨大机遇。然而,巨大的机遇往往伴随巨大的挑战。本文从保险公司风险管理的视角,定量分析长寿风险对于年金产品收益率和准备金的影响,探讨了保险公司应对长寿风险的解决方案。     

Embedded options and interest rate risk for insurance companies,banks and other financial institutions

We explore how embedded options in assets and liabilities of financial institutions impact interest rate risk, which is measured by equity value change with interest rate movements. We find that both asset and liability durations decline when embedded options are present where liability duration declines more substantially. This leads to a duration-mismatch and a negative change in equity value when interest rates rise, but a positive change for interest rate declines. In a more sophisticated model, an option adjusted duration-matching strategy eliminates interest rate risk caused by duration-mismatch, but the convexity-mismatch remains large due to large negative convexity of callable assets and large positive convexity of putable liabilities. The interest rate risk introduced by convexity mismatch is quite large in comparison to that of duration mismatch. The pattern of this impact is complex and strongest for roughly intermediate maturities. We propose and show that a simple convexity hedging strategy with putable assets and callable liabilities (or caps and floors combined with floating rate assets and liabilities) reduces the interest rate risk substantially.     

A decomposition analysis of managerial efficiency for the insurance companies: A data envelopment analysis approach

The insurance industry worldwide has become less fragmented through liberalization reforms. Yet, following the transformational changes, there is little empirical evidence on identifying the determinants of managerial efficiency. This paper employs a truncated regression analysis to determine the factors driving managerial efficiency of Malaysian insurers. Overall and divisional efficiencies are derived using data envelopment analysis. The decomposition analysis reveals that the observed inefficiency is mainly caused by investment capability division. The regression findings reveal that determinants of efficiency have dissimilar impacts on overall and divisional efficiencies. This study broadly supports financial liberalization as a means of promoting managerial efficiency.     

When companies improve the sustainability of the natural environment: A study of large U.S. companies

In light of the call for companies to abandon current approaches to environmental management, this study adds to the environmental strategy literature and uses the evidence of competitive dynamics among companies to identify a mechanism by which companies invest in proactive environmental strategies and thereby improve the sustainability of the natural environment. An examination utilizing fixed effects regressions on a sample of large U.S.‐based companies reveal that even after controlling the number, environmental and financial performance of leading (environmental) companies, laggard (environmental) companies are more likely to invest in proactive environmental strategies when their leading peers display higher sustainability orientations. Neither the expectation of government regulation nor social movement pressure was found to be influential in this relationship. Therefore, the future dominance of companies' investments in the sustainability of the natural environment will be driven by companies themselves as long as competitive advantages are expected.     

美国家族公司的五大成功因素

40岁的威廉·赖利是一家生口香精的家族企业威廉赖利公司的总裁.从他的曾祖父创业算起,这家公司已有一个世纪的历史目前,威廉·赖利公司的年销售收入达27亿美元.增长速度比一些强大的竞争对手快得多.     

Employer-sponsored dental insurance eases the pain.

Dental care plans grew in prominence from 1980 to 1986; plan cost control measures, as well as plan benefits, kept pace with the rising cost of dental care.     

The impact of job training on temporary worker performance: Field experimental evidence from insurance sales agents

Despite the limited incentives they provide for idiosyncratic investment, temporary work arrangements are becoming increasingly common. Using evidence from a field experiment conducted among salespeople in a Kenyan insurance firm, this paper examines the consequences of providing job training for temporary workers. The findings show that providing access to training significantly increases firm revenue, primarily due to performance increases among higher‐ability workers. The findings from the study are consistent with temporary workers willingness to invest in job training when the job‐specific returns from doing so are sufficiently high.     

Health insurance trends in cost control and coverage.

An analysis of changes in company health plans between 1979 and 1984 shows that employers often sought to contain rising expenditures, in some cases, increasing the cost to workers; improvements in benefits, however, continued.     

中国保险业：记取AIG的教训

美国次贷危机犹如一根导火索,引发了国际金融市场的剧烈动荡,同时也给国际保险业带来了严重的损失,就连全球保险巨头--美国国际集团(简称AIG)也未能摆脱濒临破产而被美国政府变相接管的噩运.其背后显现出来的问题,值得人们深思.借鉴AIG的教训,防患于未然,对于我国保险业来说是十分必要的.     

首席执行官怎样管理公司

通过对全球163位首席执行官(CEO)们的采访发现,大多数CEO都长期采用五种方法中的一种或两种来管理公司.这五种方法是:战略管理法、人力资产管理法、专业知识管理法、"箱子"管理法、变革动力法.     

刍探上市公司反收购策略

我国上市公司在面临敌意收购威胁时往往处于被动地位,缺乏反收购的经验和力量.本文在结合我国法律和国情的基础上,对完善我国上市公司反收购策略进行了探讨.     

汽车上市公司绩效评价研究

文章以2008年汽车上市公司的公开发布的财务报告为基础,通对财务报告所提供的资料进行加工整理,得出相关原始数据。通过指标筛选,得到一系列科学的、系统的指标,然后确定指标权重构建一种优化的线性函数综合评价模型,分析汽车上市公司绩效。通过构建优化的线性函数综合评价模型,对24家汽车上市公司2008年的绩效进行了排名。     

Minimum-cost portfolio insurance

Minimum-cost portfolio insurance is an investment strategy that enables an investor to avoid losses while still capturing gains of a payoff of a portfolio at minimum cost. If derivative markets are complete, then holding a put option in conjunction with the reference portfolio provides minimum-cost insurance at arbitrary arbitrage-free security prices. We derive a characterization of incomplete derivative markets in which the minimum-cost portfolio insurance is independent of arbitrage-free security prices. Our characterization relies on the theory of lattice-subspaces. We establish that a necessary and sufficient condition for price-independent minimum-cost portfolio insurance is that the asset span is a lattice-subspace of the space of contingent claims. If the asset span is a lattice-subspace, then the minimum-cost portfolio insurance can be easily calculated as a portfolio that replicates the targeted payoff in a subset of states which is the same for every reference portfolio.