Insurance Finance

Created for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for measuring and transferring credit risk, increasing risk-management transparency, and implementing an organization-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach.

America's elite have been using cash value life insurance to stockpile wealth for centuries. Used correctly, it is better described as a personal bank on steroids, and a financial bunker for tough times. To be clear, this audiobook is not about the typical garbage peddled by most insurance agents. Rather, an alternative to the risky investment strategies taught by Wall Street. It details a highly efficient form of cash value life insurance designed to supercharge your savings and stockpile wealth.

A legendary CEO tells the inside story of building the world's largest insurance company - and the dramatic tale of its near-destruction after he left in early 2005, as successors transformed AIG and drove it to the center of the financial crisis of 2008.

Medicare For Dummies, 3rd Edition will help you navigate the complicated, often confusing maze of the Medicare system. In simple language, with clear step-by-step instructions, the book helps you determine how and when to enroll, avoid costly mistakes, and find a plan that is right for you and your family.

Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have been working hard, uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from charity to terrorism and prostitution. And with their inimitable style and wit, they will take us on another even more gripping journey of discovery. Superfreakonomics will once again transform the way we look at the world.

Collectively, people think and act in ways that are different from how they think and act as individuals. Understanding these differences, says William (Bill) Bonner, a longtime maverick observer of the financial world and the vagaries of the investing public, is vital to preserving your wealth and personal dignity. Now Bonner and co-author Lila Rajiva show groupthink at work in an improbable array of instances throughout history and reveal why swimming against the current pays.

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.

What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.

In The Family Nest Egg, estate-planning attorney and mother Laura Meier provides a breakthrough program of inspiring real-life stories and time-tested legal, financial, and practical tips to move our families from stress to success and security.

Building a Resilient Tomorrow does not dwell on overhyped descriptions of apocalyptic climate scenarios, nor does it travel down well-trodden paths surrounding the politics of reducing carbon emissions. Instead, it starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects.

We face risks without realising their enormity—death, accidents, ill-health, burglaries, earthquakes, riots, fires and storms. Additional risks, such as the Coronavirus, come about with alarming irregularity to disrupt our lives. Look around and you will see many examples of the deep impact these risks can have. A wage earner's premature death can put paid to their children's education; Chemotherapy can eat up your life's savings; an illness when overseas can leave you confused about how to get treated; heavy rains can flood your home; and an accident can cause litigation.

There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor. These health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasised access to technical solutions – improved medical care, sanitation, and control of disease vectors; or behaviours – smoking, drinking – obesity, linked to diabetes, heart disease and cancer. These approaches only go so far.

Medicare is one of the biggest decisions you'll make as you move towards retirement. There's no question, though, that it can be really, REALLY confusing. That's where author Matt Feret comes in. His goal is to provide Medicare Advantage PPO, HMO, Medicare Supplement plans, Medicare Part D, Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B insurance advice, and an industry insider's expert perspective that will save you time and money.

Unraveling the mysteries of insurance markets, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Ray Fisman explore such issues as why insurers want to know so much about us and whether we should let them obtain this information; why insurance entrepreneurs often fail (and some tricks that may help them succeed); and whether we’d be better off with government-mandated health insurance instead of letting businesses, customers, and markets decide who gets coverage and at what price.

How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country - such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"?

お葬式・お墓と無縁の人は1人もいません。故石原慎太郎氏は「葬式不要、戒名不要。わが骨は必ず海に散らせ」とお葬式をあげないよう遺言しましたが、実は、遺族によって海洋葬というお葬式が執り行われたのです。

Du bist vogelfreie Ü18 und willst "Hotel Mama" verlassen? Oder bist du schon ein weiser Hase und suchst nach ein paar Kniffen und Tricks, die dir das Leben erleichtern? Hast du in Mathematik gelernt, wie du ein Bankkonto eröffnest? Oder zeigt dir ein Navi an, wie du eine Wohnung findest und worauf du im Mietvertrag achten solltest? Worauf musst du bei Verträgen überhaupt achten? Brauchst du Versicherungen? Und wenn ja, welche? Wie erledigst du Behördengänge? Kennst du dich im Arbeitsrecht aus? Nein? Keine Panik.

Das Versicherungsangebot in Deutschland ist riesig und unüberschaubar. Vom Haus über das Auto, das Haustier, den Krankheitsfall bis zur Altersvorsorge – wer will, kann sich nahezu gegen alles versichern. Aber welche Versicherungen braucht man wirklich? Auf was sollte man bei einem Abschluss achten? Wie erkennt man eine schlechte Versicherungsberatung? Und warum das Ganze eigentlich überhaupt? Bastian Kunkel ist Finanzfachwirt (FH), Experte für Versicherungen und Gründer der erfolgreichen Marke "Versicherungen mit Kopf".

「健康保険証」廃止で医療制度崩壊へ。７０００件以上の誤登録、医療現場でのシステム障害など、トラブル続きの「マイナ保険証」。さらに２０２４年秋には、現行の健康保険証は使えなくなる――。

La nostra casa può essere danneggiata, la nostra auto può essere rubata, noi stessi possiamo involontariamente causare danni ad altri o rimanere vittime di incidenti o di malattie: l'incertezza e il rischio costituiscono una componente imprescindibile della nostra vita. Ma quale comportamento possono adottare i singoli individui e le imprese di fronte al rischio?