The shift in insurance institutions’ investment flows to the benefit of the French general government and banking …

An analysis of the composition of insurance companies’ portfolios at end-2010 points to the start of a shift in their … bonds. …

Prior research on the demand for life insurance in household portfolio holdings has not made a clear distinction … examines the relationship between household portfolio allocation decisions and the demand for life insurance in a dynamic … setting, using panel data before and after the 2008 financial crisis. The study provides the first evidence that household …

The goal of this paper is to provide a critical overview of Moroccan insurance/pension fund investments in alternative … imposed by the regulator are not the real reasons why insurance companies / pension funds in our database reduce their … investments in the alternative asset market. The results also show that the barriers that deter Moroccan insurance/pension funds …

This paper investigates how loss-aversion affects individuals' decisions on savings and insurance purchase …. Specifically, this paper empirically tests if prospect theory's loss aversion decreases insurance demand and increases savings …-life insurance, which serves as a partial savings instrument. These individuals also hold a higher level of wealth than others …

This paper hypothesizes that loss aversion may decrease insurance demand and increase savings demand based on the … pure insurance, and they have a higher ownership rate of whole life insurance, which has a savings element. This paper also … for behavioral biases in insurance and savings decisions …

to evaluate the adequacy of retirement savings. We find first that the specification of the model's asset structure …

The introduction of the euro enabled French insurance companies to broadly diversify their investments in foreign debt … securities, mainly issued by residents of other euro area countries. Their investments in equities, however, have been affected …

contrast, insurance companies and pension funds act counter-cyclically; they buy when returns have been negative and sell after …