As margins are squeezed in the face of increasing competition and the cushion of investment returns begins to shrink, insurance companies are looking to sharpen underwriting, cut overheads and reduce claims leakage. They are also striving to improve risk management in the wake of recent financial setbacks, solvency pressures and governance scandals.
The payoff from these efforts can already be seen in strengthening market confidence and a resumption of acquisition activity following a relative lull earlier in the decade. Outsourcing and strategic partnerships are also proving increasingly popular.
Commercial challenges faced by insurers include the need to strengthen customer relationships and develop tailored and targeted products and services in the face of more exacting customer demands and increased competition. Regulatory challenges include overcoming the continuing uncertainty with respect to insurance reporting under IFRS and gearing up for the forthcoming Solvency II.
Insurance challenges
* Governance & risk management
* Market reporting
* Growth
* Human capital
* Compliance & regulation
* Mergers & acquisition
How PricewaterhouseCoopers can help you
PricewaterhouseCoopers has a global network of specialists who can help insurers turn these challenges into opportunities in key areas of their business including governance, risk and compliance, process improvement, financial reporting and business development strategies.
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Adverse Selection
Insurance companies use the term "adverse selection" to describe the tendency for only those who will benefit from insurance to buy it. Specifically when talking about health insurance, unhealthy people are more likely to purchase health insurance because they anticipate large medical bills. On the other side, people who consider themselves to be reasonably healthy may decide that medical insurance is an unnecessary expense; if they see the doctor once a year and it costs $250, that's much better than making monthly insurance payments of $400 (example figures).
The fundamental concept of insurance is that it balances costs across a large, random sample of individuals. For instance, an insurance company has a pool of 1000 randomly selected subscribers, each paying $100/month. One of them gets really sick while the others stay healthy, which means that the insurance company can use the money paid by the healthy people to treat the sick person. Adverse selection upsets this balance between healthy and sick subscribers. It will leave an insurance company with primarily sick subscribers and no way to balance out the cost of their medical expenses with a large number of healthy subscribers.
Because of adverse selection, insurance companies use a patient's medical history to screen out persons with pre-existing medical conditions. Before buying health insurance, a person typically fills out a comprehensive medical history form that asks whether the person smokes, how much the person weighs, whether the person has been treated for any of a long list of diseases and so on. In general, those who look like they will be large financial burdens are denied coverage or charged high premiums to compensate. On the other side, applicants can actually get discounts if they do not smoke and are healthy.
Starting in 1976, some states started providing "health insurance" "risk pools", which allow individuals who are medically-uninsurable through private health insurance to be able to purchase a state-sponsored health insurance plan, usually at higher cost. Minnesota was the first to offer such a plan, there are now 34 states which do. Plans vary greatly from state-to-state, both in the costs and benefits to consumers and to their methods of funding and operating. They serve a very small portion of the uninsurable market -- about 183,000 people in the USA[citation needed]-- but in best cases do allow people with pre-existing conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease or other chronic illnesses to be able to switch jobs or seek self-employment without fear of being without health care benefits. Efforts to pass a national pool have as yet been unsuccessful, but some federal tax dollars have been awarded to states to innovate and improve their plans.
The fundamental concept of insurance is that it balances costs across a large, random sample of individuals. For instance, an insurance company has a pool of 1000 randomly selected subscribers, each paying $100/month. One of them gets really sick while the others stay healthy, which means that the insurance company can use the money paid by the healthy people to treat the sick person. Adverse selection upsets this balance between healthy and sick subscribers. It will leave an insurance company with primarily sick subscribers and no way to balance out the cost of their medical expenses with a large number of healthy subscribers.
Because of adverse selection, insurance companies use a patient's medical history to screen out persons with pre-existing medical conditions. Before buying health insurance, a person typically fills out a comprehensive medical history form that asks whether the person smokes, how much the person weighs, whether the person has been treated for any of a long list of diseases and so on. In general, those who look like they will be large financial burdens are denied coverage or charged high premiums to compensate. On the other side, applicants can actually get discounts if they do not smoke and are healthy.
Starting in 1976, some states started providing "health insurance" "risk pools", which allow individuals who are medically-uninsurable through private health insurance to be able to purchase a state-sponsored health insurance plan, usually at higher cost. Minnesota was the first to offer such a plan, there are now 34 states which do. Plans vary greatly from state-to-state, both in the costs and benefits to consumers and to their methods of funding and operating. They serve a very small portion of the uninsurable market -- about 183,000 people in the USA[citation needed]-- but in best cases do allow people with pre-existing conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease or other chronic illnesses to be able to switch jobs or seek self-employment without fear of being without health care benefits. Efforts to pass a national pool have as yet been unsuccessful, but some federal tax dollars have been awarded to states to innovate and improve their plans.
South Africa Insurance Industry Analysis
South Africa Insurance Industry Analysis (2006-2009)
Publish Date: October 2006 No. of Pages: 55
Price: $800
Delivery Format: PDF Format (Single User) - Minimum 2-Day Delivery
DESCRIPTION TABLE OF CONTENT LIST OF FIGURES & TABLES
RNCOS’ report, “South Africa Insurance Industry Analysis (2006-2009)”, provides extensive research and objective analysis of the growing insurance industry, its product quality, and services in South Africa. This report helps to analyze the leading-edge opportunities critical to the success of the insurance Industry in South Africa. Detailed data and analysis helps investors, financial service providers, and global banking players to navigate through the evolving insurance market in South Africa.
Key Products Analyzed
Key products like Life and Non-life insurance have been analyzed, supported by facts like revenue and market trends.
Key Players
This section provides an overview of some of the key players in this industry like Old Mutual Plc, Sanlam Limited, Liberty Group Limited, Investec Ltd, Investment Solutions, Santam Ltd, Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Limited, Hollard Insurance Co Ltd, South African Eagle Insurance Co. Ltd. and Guardrisk.
Key Issues and Facts Analyzed
The research report also addresses the issues and facts that are critical to business success:
- What are the marketing strategies of the players in the insurance industry?
- How is the growth in Health and Group insurance driving the Insurance sector
in South Africa?
- How are the demographic factors, like death rate and birthrates affecting the South
African insurance market?
- What are the opportunities for the players in this industry and what are the challenges to
sustain the Insurance market in South Africa?
- What will be the prospective areas of investments in the insurance industry in the
near future?
- Which factors will lead to the growth of Life and Non-life insurance in South Africa?
Key Findings
- Due to the increase in the crime rates, thefts rates and high death rates, the total insurance
market (Life & Non-life) is expected to cross over $42 Billion in the year 2010 growing at the
rate of more than 6.4% from the year 2006 onwards.
- Just 60% of the motor insurance market is tapped. So it becomes an opportunity area for the
insurers in this segment.
- The increasing vehicle thefts have been a big challenge for the insurance companies in terms
of the claims.
- There are major opportunities in Agriculture Insurance sector as this contributes to 4%
of GDP and there are major losses due to uneven rainfall and lack of irrigation facility.
Research Methodology Used
Information Sources
Information has been sourced from namely, Books, Newspapers, trade journals, and white papers, industry portals, government agencies, trade associations, monitoring industry news and developments, and through access to access to more than 3000 paid databases.
Analysis Methods
The analysis methods includes the following: Ratio Analysis, Historical Trend Analysis, Linear Regression Analysis using software tools, Judgmental Forecasting and Cause and Effect Analysis.
Publish Date: October 2006 No. of Pages: 55
Price: $800
Delivery Format: PDF Format (Single User) - Minimum 2-Day Delivery
DESCRIPTION TABLE OF CONTENT LIST OF FIGURES & TABLES
RNCOS’ report, “South Africa Insurance Industry Analysis (2006-2009)”, provides extensive research and objective analysis of the growing insurance industry, its product quality, and services in South Africa. This report helps to analyze the leading-edge opportunities critical to the success of the insurance Industry in South Africa. Detailed data and analysis helps investors, financial service providers, and global banking players to navigate through the evolving insurance market in South Africa.
Key Products Analyzed
Key products like Life and Non-life insurance have been analyzed, supported by facts like revenue and market trends.
Key Players
This section provides an overview of some of the key players in this industry like Old Mutual Plc, Sanlam Limited, Liberty Group Limited, Investec Ltd, Investment Solutions, Santam Ltd, Mutual & Federal Insurance Company Limited, Hollard Insurance Co Ltd, South African Eagle Insurance Co. Ltd. and Guardrisk.
Key Issues and Facts Analyzed
The research report also addresses the issues and facts that are critical to business success:
- What are the marketing strategies of the players in the insurance industry?
- How is the growth in Health and Group insurance driving the Insurance sector
in South Africa?
- How are the demographic factors, like death rate and birthrates affecting the South
African insurance market?
- What are the opportunities for the players in this industry and what are the challenges to
sustain the Insurance market in South Africa?
- What will be the prospective areas of investments in the insurance industry in the
near future?
- Which factors will lead to the growth of Life and Non-life insurance in South Africa?
Key Findings
- Due to the increase in the crime rates, thefts rates and high death rates, the total insurance
market (Life & Non-life) is expected to cross over $42 Billion in the year 2010 growing at the
rate of more than 6.4% from the year 2006 onwards.
- Just 60% of the motor insurance market is tapped. So it becomes an opportunity area for the
insurers in this segment.
- The increasing vehicle thefts have been a big challenge for the insurance companies in terms
of the claims.
- There are major opportunities in Agriculture Insurance sector as this contributes to 4%
of GDP and there are major losses due to uneven rainfall and lack of irrigation facility.
Research Methodology Used
Information Sources
Information has been sourced from namely, Books, Newspapers, trade journals, and white papers, industry portals, government agencies, trade associations, monitoring industry news and developments, and through access to access to more than 3000 paid databases.
Analysis Methods
The analysis methods includes the following: Ratio Analysis, Historical Trend Analysis, Linear Regression Analysis using software tools, Judgmental Forecasting and Cause and Effect Analysis.
Indian Insurance 2009
Abstract
RNCOS' report, “Indian Insurance Industry Forecast (2007-2009)”, provides extensive research and objective analysis of the growing insurance industry, its product quality, and services in India. This report helps to analyze the leading-edge opportunities critical to the success of the insurance Industry in India. Detailed data and analysis helps investors, financial service providers, and global banking players to navigate through the evolving insurance market in India.
Key Findings
* Taking into account the changing socio-economic demographics, rate of GDP growth, changing consumer behavior and occurrences of natural calamities at regular intervals, the Indian life insurance market is expected to reach the value of around Rs 1683 Billion in the year 2009. The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 200% YOY from the year 2006.
* In 2006-07, pension premium contributed about 22.11% to total premium income of insurers. Interestingly, the figure in the first nine months to December 2005 was 25.22%.
* In the non-life segment, the established players control 65% of the market. So it is their monthly performance that determines how the market as a whole would perform.
* In Motor Insurance Business, Public sector covers almost 68% of the market value whereas the private sector just had 32% market share till September 2006.
* In Accident Insurance Business, private sector players have almost 53% market share with ICICI Lombard as the lead player. Public sector players constitute about 47% market value with New India as the leading player followed by United India.
Key Issues and Facts Analyzed
The research report also addresses the issues and facts that are critical to business success:
* What are the marketing strategies of the players in the insurance industry?
* How is the growth in Health and Group insurance are driving the Insurance sector in India?
* What are the opportunities for the players in this industry and what are the challenges to sustain the Insurance market in India?
* What will be the prospective areas of investments in the insurance industry in the near future?
* Which factors will lead to the growth of Life and Non-life insurance in India?
Key Products Analyzed
Key products like Life and Non-life insurance have been analyzed, supported by facts like revenue and market trends.
Key Players
This section provides an overview of some of the key players in this industry like Bajaj Allianz, ING Vysya, AMP Sanmar Assurance Limited, SBI Life, Tata AIG Life, HDFC Standard, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Birla Sunlife, Aviva Life Insurance, Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual, Max New York Life, Met Life, Sahara Life, LIC, Royal Sundaram, Tata-AIG General, Reliance General, IFFCO-Tokio, ICICI-Lombard, HDFC Chubb, New India Assurance Company Limited, National Insurance Company Limited, United India Insurance Company Limited and Oriental Insurance Limited.
Research Methodology Used
Information Sources
Information has been sourced from various sources namely, Books, Newspapers, trade journals, and white papers, industry portals, government agencies, trade associations, monitoring industry news and developments, and through access to access to more than 3000 paid databases.
Analysis Methods
The analysis methods includes the following: Ratio Analysis, Historical Trend Analysis, Linear Regression Analysis using software tools, Judgmental Forecasting and Cause and Effect Analysis.
RNCOS' report, “Indian Insurance Industry Forecast (2007-2009)”, provides extensive research and objective analysis of the growing insurance industry, its product quality, and services in India. This report helps to analyze the leading-edge opportunities critical to the success of the insurance Industry in India. Detailed data and analysis helps investors, financial service providers, and global banking players to navigate through the evolving insurance market in India.
Key Findings
* Taking into account the changing socio-economic demographics, rate of GDP growth, changing consumer behavior and occurrences of natural calamities at regular intervals, the Indian life insurance market is expected to reach the value of around Rs 1683 Billion in the year 2009. The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 200% YOY from the year 2006.
* In 2006-07, pension premium contributed about 22.11% to total premium income of insurers. Interestingly, the figure in the first nine months to December 2005 was 25.22%.
* In the non-life segment, the established players control 65% of the market. So it is their monthly performance that determines how the market as a whole would perform.
* In Motor Insurance Business, Public sector covers almost 68% of the market value whereas the private sector just had 32% market share till September 2006.
* In Accident Insurance Business, private sector players have almost 53% market share with ICICI Lombard as the lead player. Public sector players constitute about 47% market value with New India as the leading player followed by United India.
Key Issues and Facts Analyzed
The research report also addresses the issues and facts that are critical to business success:
* What are the marketing strategies of the players in the insurance industry?
* How is the growth in Health and Group insurance are driving the Insurance sector in India?
* What are the opportunities for the players in this industry and what are the challenges to sustain the Insurance market in India?
* What will be the prospective areas of investments in the insurance industry in the near future?
* Which factors will lead to the growth of Life and Non-life insurance in India?
Key Products Analyzed
Key products like Life and Non-life insurance have been analyzed, supported by facts like revenue and market trends.
Key Players
This section provides an overview of some of the key players in this industry like Bajaj Allianz, ING Vysya, AMP Sanmar Assurance Limited, SBI Life, Tata AIG Life, HDFC Standard, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Birla Sunlife, Aviva Life Insurance, Kotak Mahindra Old Mutual, Max New York Life, Met Life, Sahara Life, LIC, Royal Sundaram, Tata-AIG General, Reliance General, IFFCO-Tokio, ICICI-Lombard, HDFC Chubb, New India Assurance Company Limited, National Insurance Company Limited, United India Insurance Company Limited and Oriental Insurance Limited.
Research Methodology Used
Information Sources
Information has been sourced from various sources namely, Books, Newspapers, trade journals, and white papers, industry portals, government agencies, trade associations, monitoring industry news and developments, and through access to access to more than 3000 paid databases.
Analysis Methods
The analysis methods includes the following: Ratio Analysis, Historical Trend Analysis, Linear Regression Analysis using software tools, Judgmental Forecasting and Cause and Effect Analysis.
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