A Guide to Insurance Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Strategic Planning in Insurance

   • Samuel Msheliza

   Pages 1-21

3. Corporate Planning in a Large Insurance Group

   • John B. Gragnola

   Pages 22-34

4. Planning for the Single European Market

   • Stephen Diacon

   Pages 35-58

5. Modelling and Forecasting in Insurance Management

   • Margaret Brown

   Pages 59-75

6. Modelling the Financial Strength of a Reinsurance Company

   • Stewart Coutts, Russell Devitt

   Pages 76-90

7. Insurance Company Organisation and Management Structure

   • Hans van Gelder

   Pages 91-104

8. Staffing Policy in an International Insurance Group

   • Christopher Nutt

   Pages 105-123

9. Underwriting and the Selection of a Liability Portfolio

   • Bernard Benjamin

   Pages 124-137

10. Insurance Company Costs and Cost Allocation

    • Rodney Young

    Pages 138-157

11. Insurance Company Output and Costs

    • Stephen Diacon

    Pages 158-173

12. Premium Rating: Methods and Problems

    • John Pollard

    Pages 174-193

13. Competitive Behaviour and Pricing Policy

    • Walter Karten

    Pages 194-207

14. Marketing Insurance Services

    • Trevor Watkins, Stephen Diacon

    Pages 208-227

15. Intermediaries and the Agency System

    • Hugh Cockerell

    Pages 228-244

16. Sources of Funds and Estimation of Reserves

    • G. W. de Wit

    Pages 245-265

17. The Investment of Insurance Funds

    • Marcus Johnson

    Pages 266-276

18. Government Regulation of Insurance Companies

    • Henry Ellis

    Pages 277-289

19. Profit and Solvency in General Insurance

    • Bill Abbott

    Pages 290-303

20. Profit, Surplus and Reserves in a Life Office

    • Sidney Benjamin

    Pages 304-324

This book makes a substantial contribution to the general level of management education in insurance by providing a comprehensive review of the main issues facing the management of insurance enterprises. Nineteen authors with considerable practical as well as academic experience have collaborated to give an international perspective in areas such as strategy, corporate planning, organisation and staffing, costing, underwriting and premium rating, marketing, reserving and investment, profit analysis, and regulation.

• management
• marketing
• Reinsurance
• insurance

• University of Nottingham, UK

  Stephen Diacon

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