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： Dealing in uncertainty :
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| ISBN： | 9781529221367 |
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| ISBN： | 9781529221350 |
| ISBN： | 9781529221374 |
| 编目源： | PUL PUL |
| 个人名称： | Heide, Arjen van der, |
| 题名： | Dealing in uncertainty : insurance in the age of finance / Arjen van der Heide. |
| 索书号： | F845.6162/H465E |
| 载体形态： | vi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| 书目附注： | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 格式化内容附注： | Front Cover -- Dealing in Uncertainty: Insurance in the Age of Finance -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Life Insurance in the Age of Finance -- Life insurance, then and now -- Financialization in the making -- The argument -- Sources -- Overview of the book -- 2 Financialization, Quantification and Evaluation -- Financialization and the three ages of financial quantification -- Insurance and the technology of risk -- A sociological perspective on the financialization of life insurance -- The social studies of finance. |
| 格式化内容附注： | Markets as fields -- Professions and their ecologies -- An integrated approach -- 3 Shifting Boundaries between Insurance and Finance -- Upending the market for life insurance -- Fielding modern life insurance -- Unit-linked insurance and the rise of challenger firms -- 'Nothing to lose but the chains of actuarial thinking' -- Saving and investing for retirement -- Converging models of insurance -- Conclusion -- 4 Actuaries Going on a Random Walk -- Benjamin's challenge to conventional wisdom -- 'A drunken stagger around a random walk' -- Simulation modelling and actuarial science. |
| 格式化内容附注： | Actuaries, risk theory and discretionary judgement -- Actuaries and computers -- Living in a stochastic world? -- Conclusion -- 5 'Authors of Their Own Misfortune' -- Protecting policyholder expectations -- Bonus methodology: from net premiums to asset shares -- The question of policyholder reasonable expectations -- Equitable's demise: from pioneer to pariah -- 'With profits, without mystery' -- Guaranteed annuity options and the legal limits to actuarial discretion -- 'Fallen heroes': constructing a failure of actuarial expertise -- Conclusion -- 6 'Taking Account of What the Market Has to Say' |
| 格式化内容附注： | No-arbitrage modelling and modern finance theory -- From no-arbitrage to market-consistency -- Building models, shifting between worlds -- Making insurers' evaluation machinery market-consistent -- Conclusion -- 7 Managing Risk in Insurance -- Financial risk management -- Modelling life expectancy -- Modelling risk, calculating capital -- Managing the balance sheet -- Conclusion -- 8 The Long Road to Solvency II (and Back Again?) -- Towards a single market for insurance -- Frictions and 'rough edges' -- Patching the rough edges -- Designing and testing the framework -- The settlements. |
| 格式化内容附注： | Conclusion -- 9 De-Risking Pensions, Managing Assets -- The pension crisis as business opportunity -- The new life market -- Buying out pension funds -- Reordering the buyout field -- Insurance and asset management -- Conclusion -- 10 Financial Evaluation and the Future of Insurance Society -- The performative power of modern finance theory -- Rationalization and the authority of the market -- The future of insurance societies -- Notes -- References -- Index. |