Insurance category: 1053 books
Unbreakable
Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Your Military and Veterans Benefits
Get the Lowdown on All Your Entitlements . . . and How to Secure Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
The perks for American servicemen and women.
The U.S. Armed Forces exists in a reality all its own. Members are fed, paid, clothed, housed, and protected in a way few other American citizens can claim. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines can shop at low-price grocery stores, protect their...
The Income Revolution
Retire with Guaranteed Income for Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
You've probably thought about where you will live in retirement and how you plan to spend your time. But do you know how much income you will need to pay for the type of retirement you want? With Social Security's uncertain future, as well as the increasing cost of healthcare, you need to formulate...
Plan Your Financial Future
A Comprehensive Guidebook to Growing Your Net Worth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Get your financial life in order. This comprehensive and objective guidebook will help you grow your net worth on a steady and increasing basis, regardless of your income level.
This new and expanded edition covers changes and strategies to maximize financial benefits and planning resulting...
by David G. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The story of Medicaid comes alive for readers in this strong narrative, including detailed accounts of important policy changes and extensive use of interviews. A central theme of the book is that Medicaid is a "weak entitlement," one less established or effectively defended than Medicare...
by Christine Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Delivers fundamentals of risk management as a means to complement, benefit, and promote all areas of business planning. With focus on relevant risk management basics, discover that the process involves more than the core activities of making and growing clients' assets. The planning process consists...
Your Living Trust & Estate Plan
How to Maximize Your Family's Assets and Protect Your Loved Ones, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This revised fifth edition from estate-planning expert Harvey J. Platt details the most up-to-date strategies for using a living trust to create a flexible estate plan. Platt explains the latest tax laws, including the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, the broadening of statutes for amending trusts,...
The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in Pakistan
Country Diagnostics Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This publication seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Pakistan. It focuses on insurance and other risk transfer instruments and explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related demand and...
by Andrew McGee
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Life assurance continues to be a topic of great practical significance, given the popularity of endowment mortgages and pensions, which contain an element of insurance, as well as the need for families to protect against the loss of their breadwinners. Since the first edition of this book in 1995...
Shadow Banking
The Rise, Risks, and Rewards of Non-Bank Financial Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
This comparative study explores how shadow banking differs from the traditional banking system. It discusses the origins, history, purposes, risks, regulatory constraints, and projected future evolution of both financial sectors of the world economy. This thorough examination of non-bank financial...
by Don Delaney
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
Now you won't have to wait for the TV series to hit HBO. Here's a fascinating-often times hilarious-compilation of insurance fraud cases, some so outrageous, so utterly bizarre and crazy, you'll have a hard time believing them. But it's all true-direct from the private confidential files of one of the...
by Colin Edelman QC, Andrew Burns
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
This concise and accessible guide to reinsurance law is an easy-to-read specialist reference focusing solely on reinsurance. The second edition builds on the success of the first which filled a gap in the market for an easy to use and pithy explanation of the law in this field avoiding the need to...
Health Economics and Policy
Selected Writings by Victor Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
"The collection represents an extraordinary intellectual achievement and ... a handbook for anyone thinking about health and health policy."
Foreword by Sir Angus Deaton
winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
"Victor Fuchs ... is one of the world's most influential figures...
by Dr Chris Bart, Wayne Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
"A Tale of Two Team Members" is a tale about LEADERSHIP. Using an Insurance Agency as its focal organization, the book describes how four simple yet amazing questions help the person in charge of the Agency become a truly effective Leader. The lessons that this "tale" imparts, however, are applicable to ANY organization and ANY key priority.