Overview
- Focuses on quantitative phases of the risk management process, in particular risk assessment
- Deals with a wide range of topics in life insurance, non-life insurance and pensions
- Emphasizes practical issues
- Offers an application-oriented approach
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: EAA Series (EAAS)
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About this book
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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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This is a good introductory book on the topics. This book is clearly written for students in the arena of insurance industry. This is also a good reference book for professionals. … Each chapter of the book ends with a section providing bibliographic references and suggestions for further reading. … this is a good contribution, providing up-to-date coverage on selected insurance topics in a logical and systematic manner.” (Technometrics, Vol. 58 (2), February, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Professor Ermanno Pitacco, Full professor at the University of Trieste Professor Annamaria Olivieri, Full professor at the University of Parma.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Insurance Mathematics
Book Subtitle: Technical and Financial Features of Risk Transfers
Authors: Annamaria Olivieri, Ermanno Pitacco
Series Title: EAA Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21377-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21376-7Published: 12 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21377-4Published: 30 September 2015
Series ISSN: 1869-6929
Series E-ISSN: 1869-6937
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 508
Number of Illustrations: 174 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Finance, general, Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance