Introduction to Insurance Mathematics: Technical and Financial Features of Risk Transfers (EAA Series) - Softcover

Olivieri, Annamaria; Pitacco, Ermanno

 
9783319213767: Introduction to Insurance Mathematics: Technical and Financial Features of Risk Transfers (EAA Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3319213768 ISBN 13: 9783319213767
Publisher: Springer, 2015

Synopsis

This second edition expands the first chapters, which focus on the approach to risk management issues discussed in the first edition, to offer readers a better understanding of the risk management process and the relevant quantitative phases. In the following chapters the book examines life insurance, non-life insurance and pension plans, presenting the technical and financial aspects of risk transfers and insurance without the use of complex mathematical tools. The book is written in a comprehensible style making it easily accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Economics, Business and Finance, as well as undergraduate students in Mathematics who intend starting on an actuarial qualification path. With the systematic inclusion of practical topics, professionals will find this text useful when working in insurance and pension related areas, where investments, risk analysis and financial reporting play a major role.

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About the Author

Professor Ermanno Pitacco, Full professor at the University of Trieste Professor Annamaria Olivieri, Full professor at the University of Parma.

From the Back Cover

This second edition expands the first chapters, which focus on the approach to risk management issues discussed in the first edition, to offer readers a better understanding of the risk management process and the relevant quantitative phases. In the following chapters the book examines life insurance, non-life insurance and pension plans, presenting the technical and financial aspects of risk transfers and insurance without the use of complex mathematical tools.

The book is written in a comprehensible style making it easily accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Economics, Business and Finance, as well as undergraduate students in Mathematics who intend starting on an actuarial qualification path. With the systematic inclusion of practical topics, professionals will find this text useful when working in insurance and pension related areas, where investments, risk analysis and financial reporting play a major role.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3319213768
ISBN 13 
9783319213767
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
526