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A Short Insurance Industry Glossary
Introduction
How to Use This Book
Chapter 1: Major Trends Affecting the Insurance Industry
1) Introduction to the Insurance Industry
2) Aging Populations Create Challenges and Opportunities for the Insurance Industry
3) Selling Insurance to Consumers in Discount Stores May Grow
4) Sophisticated Risk Management and Prevention Programs Lead to Lower Losses
5) Independent Agencies Continue to Dominate Commercial Insurance, but Play a Lesser Role in Personal Lines
6) Direct Selling and E-Commerce Grow
7) Technology Drives Efficiencies in Back Office Tasks, Underwriting, Agency Networks and Customer Service
8) Homeowner s Insurance Passes More Risk to the Policy Holders and Relies on Sophisticated Risk Analysis Tools to Set Rates
9) Insurance Industry Reform May Be on the Horizon
10) Insurance Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Continue
11) No End in Sight to the Growth of Specialized Insurance Lines
12) Variable Annuity Accounts Top $1.8 Trillion in the U.S., While Costs and Sales Practices are Scrutinized
13) Major U.S., Japanese and European Insurance Firms See Vast Promise in the Chinese Market
14) Continued Rise in Health Care Costs
15) Employers Push Health Care Costs onto Employees
16) Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts Gain Traction
17) Growing Use of Managed Care by Medicare
18) Malpractice Suits Are Blamed for Rising Health Care Costs/Tort Reform Is Capping Awards for Damages
19) Medicare Changes Include Drug Benefits for Seniors/Medicare Advantage Offers Private Fee for Service Plans
20) Hedge Funds Enter the Reinsurance Field in a Big Way
Chapter 2: Insurance Industry Statistics
Insurance Industry Overview
Employment in the U.S. Insurance Industry: 1996-2006
Top 25 Global Insurance Companies by Revenues, 2005
Top 10 U.S.- Based Publicly-Traded Insurance Companies by Revenues, 2005
Annual Merger & Acquisition Deal Volume, U.S. Insurance Industry: 2000-2006
Largest U.S. Insurance Industry Merger & Acquisition Deals, 2005
Top 10 Global Life Insurance Companies by Revenues, 2005
Assets and Liabilities of U.S. Life Insurance Companies: 2000-2006
Top 10 Global Property and Casualty Companies by Revenues, 2005
Assets and Liabilities of U.S. Property-Casualty Insurance Companies: 2000-2006
Top 10 Global Health Insurance Companies by Revenues, 2005
The Nation's Health Dollar, 2006 Where It Came From (Estimated)
Medicare Deductible, Co-Payment and Premium Amounts, 2007
Employers' Costs for Health Insurance, Amount and Percent of Total Compensation, U.S.: Selected Years 2002-2006
Percent of Persons under Age 65 with Public Health Plan Coverage and Private Health Insurance Coverage, by Age Group, U.S.: 1997-2005
People without Health Insurance for the Entire Year, U.S.: 2003, 2004 and 2005
Typical U.S. Automobile Insurance Costs per Year, 2006
Chapter 3: Important Insurance Industry Contacts
(Addresses, Phone Numbers and World Wide Web Sites)
Chapter 4: THE INSURANCE 300:
Who They Are and How They Were Chosen
Industry List, With Codes
Index of Rankings Within Industry Groups
Alphabetical Index
Index of Headquarters Location by U.S. State
Index of Non-U.S. Headquarters Location by Country
Index by Regions of the U.S. Where the Firms Have Locations
Index by Firms with Operations Outside the U.S.
Individual Data Profiles on Each of THE INSURANCE 300
Additional Indexes
Index of Hot Spots for Advancement for Women/Minorities
Index by Subsidiaries, Brand Names and Selected Affiliations
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Anthony Moon
reviewed Plunkett's Insurance Industry Almanac: The Only Comprehensive Guide to the Insurance Industry on December 31, 2011
Plunkett's Insurance Industry Almanac: The Only Comprehensive Guide to the Insurance Industry
This little book, published in 1871, describes the functioning of the first great capital market at the time when money first began to flow quickly and easily across distances and borders to wherever it would be most profitable to those who controlled it. (I suspect the telegraph played a role in this transformation.) Bagehot confined himself to describing the workings of the actual money market, intentionally keeping clear of economic theory. The fact he named the book after the specific street where the activities took place is indicative. Although conditions have changed greatly since he wrote, the book presents a good introduction to the mechanisms of capital.
The latter part of the book points out weaknesses in the then current workings of the money market that resulted from London having become an international centre for capital and it proposes methods of safe guarding against a panic. I think it demonstrates his astuteness that he was arguing this in 1871 two years before "The Panic of 1873" that triggered the "Long Depression", the first global depression, lasting twenty years.
He was one of those uncommon writers who are able to express complexity clearly. I wish I could find somebody writing about money today with his skill as a writer, his knowledge (before becoming a journalist he had worked as a banker) and his scrupulous avoidance of economic dogma.
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