Risk Management for Insurers - Softcover

Rene Doff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906348499 ISBN 13: 9781906348496

Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line, 1900

Synopsis

The insurance industry is facing turbulent times and risk management is at the top of the agenda. This is particularly the case in Europe, where the introduction of Solvency II will drastically redesign the supervisory rules for regulatory capital for insurance companies. Therefore it is crucial that the industry fully understands how to implement risk management best practice.

Solvency II is reaching a final phase and pressure is mounting on insurers to implement and professionalise risk management practices. Needless to say, supervisors are encouraging risk management information to be more widely spread throughout organisations in order for it to be fully integrated into the day-to-day management of the business. Many companies are at this moment upgrading their risk management systems.

In this timely new book, industry expert René Doff argues that Solvency II, which aims to improve standards of risk assessment, should be regarded as an opportunity. Solvency II will provide incentives for insurance companies to improve their risk management systems and will allow you to benefit from the risk management efforts in the context of supervision.

Risk management and value creation are inherently tied together. This book also shows how to integrate risk and value management into the management control framework of insurance companies. It highlights the evolution of embedded value into market consistent techniques and fair value. These issues are also relevant in the context of accounting regulation (IFRS).

This new user-friendly book will help you to quickly get to grips with risk management terms and techniques and how they relate specifically to the insurance industry. It also demonstrates how Solvency II is already shaping the regulatory agenda and its likely impact on the insurance industry.

Risk Management for Insurers is an accessible reference for the whole insurance industry, identifying and discussing how to measure a

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About the Author

René Doff is a Risk Manager at Eureko Group, the largest insurance group in the Netherlands. He is currently seconded to the Solvency II project at CEA, the European Insurance Federation. An experienced Financial Engineer, Doff also has a PhD and a Masters in financial management and mathematics.

Doff has published several articles on this subject and two books in Dutch on Banking and Basel II and Insurance Risk Management respectively, these are: "Risk Management for Insurers: Risk Control, Economic Capital, Supervision and Solvency II" 2006, NIBE-SVV (in Dutch) and "Economic Capital and Risk Management in Banking" 2004, NIBE-SVV (also in Dutch).

Review

I can heartily recommend that you read this book --Jos Streppel, Chief Financial Officer Aegon Group,

I have finally found a document that I can use to explain to non-actuaries and non-technical people what it is all about --Sabijn Timmers, Chief Risk Officer, DBV Insurance

Edition details

• Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 1906348499
• ISBN 13: 9781906348496
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English