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A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and...

This book on fintechs shows an international comparison on a global level. It is the first book where 10 years of financing rounds for fintechs have been analyzed for 10 different fintech segments. It is the first book to show the Canvas business model...

RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THE GOLD STANDARD IN FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT TEXTBOOKS In the newly revised sixth edition of Risk Management and Financial Institutions, celebrated risk and derivatives expert John C. Hull delivers an incisive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957559554Author Stephen CatlinFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Iskaboo Publishing LtdPublisher Iskaboo Publishing Ltd

Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are...

In the years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, the incorporation of ideas and theories from the rapidly growing field of financial economics has precipitated considerable development of thinking in the actuarial profession. Modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781338421Author Jeremy KeatingFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory, functioning, management and legal background of the insurance industry. Written in accessible, non-technical style, Insurance Theory and Practice begins with an examination of the insurance...

Based on the syllabus of the actuarial profession courses on general insurance pricing - with additional material inspired by the author's own experience as a practitioner and lecturer - Pricing in General Insurance, Second Edition presents pricing as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412081412Author H.D. JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 324gDimensions(mm) 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648980988Author Rainer PetekFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Rainer Petek - Leadership & ChangePublisher Rainer Petek - Leadership &...

A guide to new ambitions in work, relationships and learning, by our most inspired thinker on society and community."Scintillating . . . prophetic . . . engaging" - Financial Times"A masterpiece" - The TimesWhat is worth knowing? What does it mean to be...

Folland, Goodman, and Stano's bestselling The Economics of Health and Health Care text offers the market-leading overview of all aspects of Health Economics, teaching through core economic themes, rather than concepts unique to the health care economy. ...

An engaging and accessible examination of what ails insurance markets-and what to do about it-by three leading economists "The authors . . . do a masterful job of explaining the intractable complexities created by this socially vital activity."-Martin...

Praise for Endowment Building "This comprehensive work shows how endowments can provide multiple opportunities for donor involvement when the solicitation program is well designed and integrated with other fund development and program goals. Emphasizing...

In this fascinating insider's account, an American woman who became an investor alleges that irresponsibility, incompetence, greed, and fraud at Lloyd's, the world's most glamorous insurance enterprise, have caused the company to lose $12 billion in the...

What would you like to do with your life? What career would allow you to fulfill your dreams of success? If you like mathematics-and the prospect of a highly mobile, international profession-consider becoming an actuary. Szabo's Actuaries' Survival...

Reinsurance is a financial market that trades in the risk of unpredictable and devastating disasters - such as Hurricane Katrina, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. Such disasters are increasing in...

Real case studies on insurance fraud written by real fraud examiners Insurance Fraud Casebook is a one-of-a-kind collection consisting of actual cases written by fraud examiners out in the field. These cases were hand selected from hundreds of...

Historically, security managers have tended to be sourced from either the armed forces or law enforcement. But the increasing complexity of the organisations employing them, along with the technologies employed by them, is forcing an evolution and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578409726Author Kevin PereauFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Transcendit HealthPublisher Transcendit HealthWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985896652Author Larry GoanosFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Wells Media Group, IncorporatedPublisher Wells Media Group, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

This casebook extends Strategic Risk Leadership: Engaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty and the Unknown, bringing theory and practice grounded in the first book to life with an array of applicable, real-world examples. The book enables critical thinking...

As bankers incorporate more and more complicated and precise calculations and models, a solely mathematical approach will fail to confirm the viability of their business. This book explains how to combine ALM concepts with the emotional intelligence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912045075Author John LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint John Spencer WritesPublisher John Spencer WritesWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Navigating Insurtech demystifies the insurtech ecosystem, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the industry and its key players, components, challenges and opportunities. The insurtech landscape is highly complex and constantly...

Long-listed for the FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011 The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991038817Author Kevin GlaserFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Right Side Creations, LLCPublisher Right Side Creations, LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892366818Author Bernie De SouzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Fortune Network Publishing IncPublisher Fortune Network Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

'Invisible social security' is a term coined by Jos Berghman in his early work to draw attention to those aspects of social security that easily tend to be neglected in an instrumental perspective that conceives of social security merely as a particular...

An authoritative and comprehensive graduate textbook on the modern insurance sectorThe traditional role of insurers is to insure idiosyncratic risk through products such as life annuities, life insurance, and health insurance. With the decline of private...

This book summarizes the state of the art in generalized linear models (GLMs) and their various extensions: GAMs, mixed models and credibility, and some nonlinear variants (GNMs). In order to deal with tail events, analytical tools from Extreme Value...

In excess of loss reinsurance, the reinsurer covers the amount of a loss exceeding the policy's deductible but not piercing its cover limit. Accordingly, a policy's quantitative scope of cover is significantly affected by the parties' agreement of a...

ALM Modeling and Balance Sheet Optimization leads the reader through the vast world of mathematical programming applied to balance sheet optimization. It considers a wide range of business and regulatory constraints and different flavors of financial...

Actuaries' Survival Guide: Navigating the Exams as Applications of Data Science, Third Edition explains what actuaries are, what they do, and where they do it. The book describes exciting combinations of ideas, techniques, and skills involved in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985896676Author Christopher J BoggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Wells Media Group, IncorporatedPublisher Wells Media Group,...

In this concise yet comprehensive guide to the mathematics of modern portfolio theory the authors discuss mean-variance analysis, factor models, utility theory, stochastic dominance, very long term investing, the capital asset pricing model, risk...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book examines the growing...

Historically, the insurance industry in America has been fragmented. As a result, there have been debates and conflicts over the proper roles of federal and state governments, business, and the responsibilities of individuals. Who should cover the risks...

This is a study of one of the central themes of pre-1914 British history - the move towards social reform and the accompanying growth of collectivism and bureaucracy. It focuses on the conditions under which Britain was willing to borrow political...