Die Europäische Versicherungsindustrie hat in den vergangenen Jahren zahlreiche Veränderungen erlebt. Zu nennen sind zum Beispiel Naturkatastrophen, die letzte Finanzmarktkrise und neue regulatorische Vorschriften. Diese Dynamik macht das Themengebiet Versicherung zu einem interessanten und...

The aim of this paper is to discuss different methods for risk assessment in theGerman automobile industry. We present the traditional approach for classifyingrisks, which is actually applied in the German market, and discuss one crucial difficulty inherent to this approach for proper risk...

Life insurers often claim that the life settlement industry reduces theirsurrender profits and leads to an adverse shift in their portfolio of insuredrisks, i.e., bad risks remain in the portfolio instead of surrendering.In this paper, we aim to quantify the effect of altered...

In this paper, we first discuss the characteristics and major benefits of the Swissrisk-based capital standards for insurance companies (Swiss Solvency Test), introduced in 2006. As the insurance industry is one of the largest institutional investors in Switzerland, changes to its asset and...