Social security is virtually non-existent in India. While governments play a role providing some security to poor households (through the public distribution system targeted at households below the poverty line), in general financial security remains the responsibility of individuals. Life...

The concept of asset specificity is an important feature of the transaction-cost economics literature. This literature predicts that asset specificity – which embraces physical assets, specialist human capital and intangibles such as brands – fosters greater certainty in...

Payments of life insurance products depend on the uncertain future evolution of survival probabilities. This uncertainty is referred to as longevity risk. Existing literature shows that the effect of longevity risk on single life annuities can be substantial, and that there exists a (natural)...

Compact tariffs are not only used in pension insurance, but also in life insurance. However, in many cases it is necessary to have separate views on those tariffs, since policy management systems developed for life insurance companies are based on tariffs which have separate tariff components,...

This study investigates the critical success factors for knowledge management implementation via empirical surveys among Taiwan’s life insurance enterprises using structure equation modeling. We find that individual characteristics, knowledge management characteristics and organizational...

Knowledge management facilitates the firms and employees to deliver better products and services and hence achieve competitive advantages and profits. The issues of knowledge management have drawn much attention form industry and academia. However, few reports have been found available...