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Hannover Life Re Publications

Perspectives - Current Topics of international Life Insurance


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To marry or not to marry - New insights

By Dr. Dorit Stobbe
2007
  • Relative mortality ratio
  • Reasons for differences based on marital status
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Enhanced Annuities on the Move

By Tim Weinert
2006
  • Evolution of the Enhanced Annuity Market
  • Market Survey
  • Processes – Underwriting
  • Reinsurance Concepts
  • Is there more to come?
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"Don't count your chickens because they'll scratch" - The threat of a global pandemic including Bird Flu

By Dr. Bill Monday
2006
  • Medical aspects
  • The infecting agents
  • Types of influenca virus
  • The impending pandemic - Avian Flu
  • Excess Mortality from Avian Flu
  • Economic burden
  • Managing the risk of a pandemic
  • Lessons from the past
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Fuzzy Logic in Life Underwriting as illustrated by the cardiovascular Risk Assessment of Diabetes Mellitus Type II

By Dr. Ralph Lohse
2004
  • Why fuzzy logic?
  • Historical development of fuzzy logic
  • Groups of diseases in life insurance medicine
  • Basics of fuzzy logic
  • Reasons for fuzzy logic in medical underwriting
  • Further insurance-related areas of application for fuzzy logic
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Block Assumption Transactions:An American Revolution in Life Reinsurance

By Dr. Wolf S. Becke
2004
  • Origin and key components of Block Assumption Transactions (BATs)
  • Practical implementation of BATs
  • Implications of BATs for the participating reinsurer
  • Main applications of BATs
  • BATs as a new business segment for life reinsurers
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A long life is the key to living longer Underwriting for the elderly

By Dr. Nicola-Alexander Sittaro
2003
  • The need for undewriting for senior citizens
  • Demographic changes
  • Insurance products for senior citizens
  • Paradoxes in underwriting
  • Factors affecting the medical risk - Hannover Life Re's concept
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Life well spent is long - The variability of life reflected in annuity products

By Cord-Roland Rinke
2002
  • Annuity Market in the UK
  • Classification of enhanced annuities
  • Diabetis mellitus
  • Mortality of diabetes mellitus patients
  • Product design diabetic annuitants
  • Mortality deferentials and transition rates
  • according to marital status
  • Product design for unmarried lives annuitants
  • Reassurance solutions
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Securitization in life, health and personal accident reinsurance

By Steffen Bütow
2001
  • Basic principles of securitisation in reinsurance
  • Securitisation in life, health and personal accident reinsurance
  • Secondary securitisation and its risks
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Private unemployment insurance - Opportunities and risks associated with a complex product

By Karolina Trettenbach/Dieter Kroll
2000
  • Structure of unemployment
  • Major unemployed populations
  • Financial consequences of unemployment
  • Actuarial basis for private unemployment insurance
  • Development of private unemployment insurance products
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The "Turf War"- The Current Price War in the United States' Life Reinsurance Market

By Dr. A. Helmuth Reich
1999
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New Target Group Concepts for Enhanced Personal Accident Insurance

By Dr. Nicola-Alexander Sittaro
1999
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"To marry or not to marry - that is the question" Remarks of an actuary on an old topic

By Dr. A. Helmuth Reich
1998
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Enhanced Annuities in the United Kingdom

By Samiera Hamdan/Cord-Roland Rinke
1998
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A Great Wind is Blowing - Dynamics of the German Life Insurance Market

By Dr. Wolf S. Becke
1997
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