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Price Writer: The nine-step method to becoming a highly successful general insurance pricing leader by Jeremy Keating 9781781338421
RRP: £16.99£12.94Apologies 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 *... -
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Peter L. Bernstein (Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.) 9780471295631
RRP: £18.00£12.14A 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... -
The Calculus of Retirement Income: Financial Models for Pension Annuities and Life Insurance by Moshe A. Milevsky 9780521842587
RRP: £45.99£40.49This 2006 book introduces and develops the basic actuarial models and underlying pricing of life-contingent pension annuities and life insurance from a unique financial perspective. The ideas and techniques are then applied to the real-world problem of... -
Pricing in General Insurance by Pietro Parodi 9780367769031
RRP: £76.99£67.05Based 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... -
Risk Management and Financial Institutions, Sixth Edition by J Hull
RRP: £105.00£68.24RISK 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... -
Insurance Theory and Practice by Rob Thoyts
RRP: £58.99£51.48This 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... -
Europe in a Motorhome: A Mid-life Gap Year Around Southern Europe by H.D. Jackson 9781412081412
RRP: £10.99£8.29Apologies 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... -
The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future Theodore Zeldin 9780857053695
RRP: £12.99£8.60A 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... -
The British Insurance Industry Since 1900: The Era of Transformation by Robert L. Carter 9780230219649
RRP: £89.99£89.87A comprehensive chronicle of thetransformation of the intensely competitive British insurance industry in response to evolving economic, social, technological and political conditions. It analyzes the fast-changing shape of the distribution system, the... -
Risk & Reward: An Inside View of the Property/Casualty Insurance Business by Stephen Catlin 9780957559554
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies 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 -
Introduction to Mathematical Portfolio Theory by Mark S. Joshi
RRP: £54.99£49.76In 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... -
Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business by Anja Shortland 9780198815471
RRP: £22.49£15.94Kidnap 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... -
The Economics of Health and Health Care: International Student Edition, 8th Edition Sherman Folland 9781138208056
RRP: £56.99£55.34Folland, 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. ... -
Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics S. David Promislow (York University, Toronto, Canada) 9781118782460
RRP: £61.95£54.59Provides a comprehensive coverage of both the deterministic and stochastic models of life contingencies, risk theory, credibility theory, multi-state models, and an introduction to modern mathematical finance. New edition restructures the material to fit... -
Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry by Paula Jarzabkowski 9780198783770
RRP: £26.49£24.51Reinsurance 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... -
Nonprofit Essentials: Endowment Building Diana S. Newman (Philanthropic Resource Group) 9780471678465
RRP: £50.00£43.51Praise 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... -
Banking in the Age of the Platform Economy: Digital Acceleration Through Strategies of Interdependence by Giorgio Bou-Daher
RRP: £67.50£47.91The 2008 global financial crisis and the concurrent rise of the platform economy have had profound effects on the banking sector. Over the past decade and a half, banking leaders have had to contend with rapidly evolving regulatory, technological, and... -
Reinsurance and the Law of Aggregation: Event, Occurrence, Cause by Oliver D. William 9780367688684
RRP: £37.99£33.38In 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... -
Inflation-Linked Bonds and Derivatives: Investing, hedging and valuation principles for practitioners by Jessica James
RRP: £65.00£47.10Disruptions in supply chains and consumption patterns triggered by the pandemic together with stimulus packages and the energy crisis have catapulted inflation rates to levels last seen in the 1970s. For inflation markets, it's hard to understate this... -
Actuaries' Survival Guide: How to Succeed in One of the Most Desirable Professions by Fred Szabo 9780123869432
£39.48What 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... -
Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It by Liran Einav 9780300274042
RRP: £14.99£13.03An 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... -
Professional Security Management: A Strategic Guide by Charles Swanson
RRP: £49.99£43.50Historically, 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... -
Effective Statistical Learning Methods for Actuaries II: Tree-based Methods and Extensions by Michel Denuit
RRP: £44.99£19.99This book summarizes the state of the art in tree-based methods for insurance: regression trees, random forests and boosting methods. It also exhibits the tools which make it possible to assess the predictive performance of tree-based models. Actuaries... -
Managing Crises Before They Happen: What Every Executive and Manager Needs to Know about Crisis Management by Ian I. Mitroff 9780814473283
RRP: £18.99£15.11Discover the crisis management tools that successful executives and managers utilize to stay ahead of crises, before they happen.From tragic accidents to public relations fiascos, we live in an increasingly crisis-ridden society. In fact, half of the... -
Inside the Insurance Industry - Third Edition by Kevin L Glaser 9780991038817
RRP: £16.64£16.54Apologies 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 -
Strategic Risk Leadership: Context and Cases by Torben Juul Andersen 9780367709389
RRP: £35.99£31.69This 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... -
Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide by Roddy Boyd 9780470889800
RRP: £23.00£15.57Long-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... -
D&o 101: A Holistic Approach: Understanding Directors & Officers Liability Insurance by Larry Goanos 9780985896652
RRP: £25.06£21.83Apologies 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)... -
Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry by Paula Jarzabkowski 9780199664764
RRP: £55.00£54.32Reinsurance 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... -
Executive's Guide to Solvency II by David Buckham 9780470545720
RRP: £75.00£47.85A straightforward guide to the evolution, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II Providing a guide to the evolution, practice, benefits, and implementation of Solvency II, Executive's Guide to Solvency II deftly covers this major European... -
Actuaries' Survival Guide: Navigating the Exams as Applications of Data Science by Ping Wang 9780443154973
RRP: £45.95£43.29Actuaries' 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... -
Property and Casualty Insurance Concepts Simplified: The Ultimate 'how To' Insurance Guide for Agents, Brokers, Underwriters, and Adjusters by Christopher J Boggs 9780985896676
RRP: £25.06£21.83Apologies 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,... -
Effective Statistical Learning Methods for Actuaries I: GLMs and Extensions by Michel Denuit 9783030258191
RRP: £44.99£44.97This 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... -
The Economics, Regulation, and Systemic Risk of Insurance Markets by Felix Hufeld 9780198788812
£85.30Despite the importance of insurance in enabling individual and collective social, economic, and financial activities, discussions about the macro-economic role and risks of insurance markets are surprisingly limited. The core motivation for publishing... -
British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance 1880-1914 by E.P. Hennock 9780198201274
£66.10This 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... -
Extending Canadian Health Insurance: Options for Pharmacare and Denticare by R. G. Evans 9780802033536
RRP: £26.99£23.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802033536Author R. G. EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press -
Future of Insurance Regulation in the United States by Robert W. Klein
RRP: £35.00£30.95Important changes have buffeted the insurance industry over the past decade. The 1999 repeal of key provisions of the Glass-Steagall Act unleashed a wave of conglomeration in financial services, as bank holding companies acquired insurance and securities... -
Deregulating Property-Liability Insurance: Restoring Competition and Increasing Market Efficiency by J. David Cummins
RRP: £19.99£17.61Over the past two decades, the United States has successfully deregulated prices and restrictions on most previously-regulated industries, including airlines, trucking, railroads, telecommunications, and banking. Only a few industries remain regulated,... -
Financial Economics of Insurance by Ralph S.J. Koijen
RRP: £62.00£48.22An 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... -
The Economics, Regulation, and Systemic Risk of Insurance Markets by Felix Hufeld 9780198820420
£38.24Despite the importance of insurance in enabling individual and collective social, economic, and financial activities, discussions about the macroeconomic role and risks of insurance markets are surprisingly limited. This book brings together academics,...