Introduction to Insurance Mathematics

Technical and Financial Features of Risk Transfers
2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-319-21376-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 7898 g

Reihe: EAA Series

This second edition expands the first chapters, which focus on the approach to risk management issues discussed in the first edition, to offer readers a better understanding of the risk management process and the relevant quantitative phases. In the following chapters the book examines life insurance, non-life insurance and pension plans, presenting the technical and financial aspects of risk transfers and insurance without the use of complex mathematical tools. The book is written in a comprehensible style making it easily accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Economics, Business and Finance, as well as undergraduate students in Mathematics who intend starting on an actuarial qualification path. With the systematic inclusion of practical topics, professionals will find this text useful when working in insurance and pension related areas, where investments, risk analysis and financial reporting play a major role.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitacco, Ermanno

Olivieri, Annamaria

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Finanz- und Versicherungsmathematik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Risikomanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Risks and Insurance.- 2 Managing a Portfolio of Risks.- Life Insurance: Modeling the Lifetime.- 4 Life Insurance: Pricing.- 5 Life Insurance: Reserving.- 6 Reserves and Profits in a Life Insurance Portfolio.- 7 Finance in Life Insurance: Linking Benefits to the Investment Performance.- 8 Pension Plans: Technical and Financial Perspectives.- 9 Non-life Insurance: Pricing and Reserving.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Ermanno Pitacco, Full professor at the University of Trieste Professor Annamaria Olivieri, Full professor at the University of Parma.