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Birla Sun Life Aditya Birla Group Sun Life, Canada Life
Royal Sundaram Sundaram Finance Royal Sun, UK Life & Non- Life
Max New York Life Max India New York Life, USA Life
Information Free
Market Power Externalities
problems Rider problems
Economics of
Lemons
scale/scope
Product
Moral Hazard
Differentiations
Principal agent
problem
Solutions to Asymmetric Information
Educating/customer about
-Insurance needs product features
-Quality and prices of insurance policies
-Financial health of the insurers
Establishing stricter system of monitoring salesforce
Conducting deeper investigations of claims.
The human life value concept (HLV)
HLV- a part of the general theory of human capital
Human Capital - important element of nations wealth
- Investments we made in one self with
an expectation of future benefits.
(Adam Smith)
Gary S. Backer – 1991 Nobel awardee for Economics
HLV – Capitalised monetary worth of the earning
capacity resulting from the economic forces that
we incorporated within our being
- arises out of its relations to other lives
- first applied in 1880, by Jakob L Green, President,
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.
- Subject to loss through (1) Premature death (2) Incapacity (3)
retirement and (4) Unemployment
HLV is a function of its purpose and
value to others
General standpoint – Present value of an