During 2008 and 2009, the insurance industry experienced unprecedented volatility. The
large swings in insurers' market valuations, and the significant role that financial reporting …

The performance of any business firm not only plays the role to improve the market value of
that specific firm but also leads towards the growth of the whole sector which ultimately leads …

Previous studies of financial health of insurance companies are mainly focused on insurers
operating in the United States and developed economies. This article focuses on the …

Purpose This study is an exploratory study investigating firm-specific internal factors that
influence the profitability performance of selected life insurance firms in eight Asian …

Dynamic financial analysis has become one of the important tools that actuaries use to
model the underwriting and investment operations of insurance companies. The first step in …

This article compares the performance of the logit and hazard models in predicting
insolvency and detecting variables that have a statistically significant impact on the solvency …

The recent global financial crisis, combined with regulatory changes in financial industries,
has altered the financial landscape in terms of how financing can be achieved and the …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the effect of insurance specific characteristics,
corporate governance and risk reporting attributes, Shari'ah board and inflation rate on the …

This study identifies factors exogenous to individual insurers that are statistically related to
the overall rate of life-health insurer insolvencies. This is a departure from the …

We analyze the operations and performance of insurance companies that left the insurance
market from 2006 to 2013. Using a large European sample (2060 insurers from 16 countries …