Executive's Guide to Solvency II

Executive's Guide to Solvency II
Author: David Buckham
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780470925706

A straightforward guide to the evolution, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II Providing a guide to the evolution, practice, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II, Executive′s Guide to Solvency II deftly covers this major European regulation which ensures that insurers can meet their risk–based liabilities over a one–year period to a 99.5% certainty. Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series, this book will guide you through Solvency II, especially if you need to understand the subtleties of Solvency II and risk–based capital in basic business language. Among the topics covered in this essential book are: Background to Solvency II Learning from the Basel Approach The Economic Balance Sheet Internal Models People, Process, and Technology Business Benefits of Solvency II Executive′s Guide to Solvency II has as its aim an explanation for executives, practitioners, consultants, and others interested in the Solvency II process and the implications thereof, to understand how and why the directive originated, what its goals are, and what some of the complexities are. There is an emphasis on what in practice should be leveraged upon to achieve implementation, specifically data, processes, and systems, as well as recognition of the close alignment demanded between actuaries, the risk department, IT, and the business itself.

Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
Author: Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1541797728

The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.

Investment Guarantees

Investment Guarantees
Author: Mary Hardy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2003-03-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0471392901

A comprehensive guide to investment guarantees in equity-linked life insurance Due to the convergence of financial and insurance markets, new forms of investment guarantees are emerging which require financial service professionals to become savvier in modeling and risk management. With chapters that discuss stock return models, dynamic hedging, risk measures, Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation, and much more, this one-stop reference contains the valuable insights and proven techniques that will allow readers to better understand the theory and practice of investment guarantees and equity-linked insurance policies. Mary Hardy, PhD (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, where she is a frequent speaker. Her research covers topics in life insurance solvency and risk management, with particular emphasis on equity-linked insurance. Hardy is an Associate Editor of the North American Actuarial Journal and the ASTIN Bulletin and is a Deputy Editor of the British Actuarial Journal.

The Financial Services (Miscellaneous) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

The Financial Services (Miscellaneous) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9780111181799

Enabling power: European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, s. 8 (1), sch. 7, para. 21. Issued: 26.02.2019. Sifted: -. Made: -. Laid: -. Coming into force: In accord. with reg. 1. Effect: 1986 c.45; 2000 c.8; 2007 c.3; 2009 c.4; S.I. 2001/544, 1201; 2004/3200; 2013/165, 418; 2015/1945; 2018/135, 1038, 1297, 1320, 1394, 1403; 2019/38; draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019; draft Financial Markets and Insolvency Amendment and Transitional Provision EU Exit Regulations 2019; draft Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories (Amendment, etc., and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019; draft Solvency 2 and Insurance (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019; draft Credit Rating Agencies (Amendment, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019; draft Equivalence Determinations for Financial Services and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 amended & S.I. 2001/3625, 3626 modified & S.I. 2006/2078; 2011/2699; 2012/2661 revoked. Territorial extent & classification: E/W/S/NI. EC note: Regulation (EU) no. 648/2012; Regulation (EU) no. 575/2013; Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35; Regulation (EU) 2017/1131; Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/2358; Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/2359; Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 amended & 35 Regulations/Decisions revoked. For approval by resolution of each House of Parliament