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Life Insurance Trends at Midcentury / ed. by David McCahan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: THE S. S. HUEBNER FOUNDATION FOR INSURANCE EDUCATION LECTURESPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1950Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512804218
  • 9781512804225
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 368.3
LOC classification:
  • HG8951
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- THE S. S. HUEBNER FOUNDATION FOR INSURANCE EDUCATION -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. THE IMPACT OF LOWER INTEREST EARNINGS -- II. IMPLICATIONS OF THE GUERTIN LEGISLATION -- III. INVESTMENT TRENDS AND PROBLEMS -- IV. PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS OF SELECTION AND UNDERWRITING -- V. REINSURANCE OF LIFE RISKS -- VI. SIGNIFICANT ANNUITY DEVELOPMENTS -- VII. DEVELOPMENT OF DISABILITY BENEFITS IN LIFE INSURANCE CONTRACTS -- VIII. MODERN INDUSTRIAL LIFE INSURANCE -- IX. THE GROWING FIELD OF GROUP COVERAGES -- X. RESEARCH IN AGENCY MANAGEMENT -- INDEX
Summary: Legal reserve life insurance in the United States and Canada as a modern instrument for meeting the quest for economic security, has attained size and significance unparalleled elsewhere in the world. It holds in a fiduciary capacity more than $60 billion and affects the lives of half the population as owners of life insurance and annuity contracts. Still in process of evolution, it helps to shape the pattern of life and is at the same time being shaped by its own environment.This third volume of lectures issued under the auspices of the S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education deals with significant trends and problems in life insurance at the midpoint of the twentieth century. In so doing, it bears testimony to the vitality and adaptive power of this modem device for sharing one another's burdens.
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Frontmatter -- THE S. S. HUEBNER FOUNDATION FOR INSURANCE EDUCATION -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. THE IMPACT OF LOWER INTEREST EARNINGS -- II. IMPLICATIONS OF THE GUERTIN LEGISLATION -- III. INVESTMENT TRENDS AND PROBLEMS -- IV. PRINCIPLES AND PROBLEMS OF SELECTION AND UNDERWRITING -- V. REINSURANCE OF LIFE RISKS -- VI. SIGNIFICANT ANNUITY DEVELOPMENTS -- VII. DEVELOPMENT OF DISABILITY BENEFITS IN LIFE INSURANCE CONTRACTS -- VIII. MODERN INDUSTRIAL LIFE INSURANCE -- IX. THE GROWING FIELD OF GROUP COVERAGES -- X. RESEARCH IN AGENCY MANAGEMENT -- INDEX

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Legal reserve life insurance in the United States and Canada as a modern instrument for meeting the quest for economic security, has attained size and significance unparalleled elsewhere in the world. It holds in a fiduciary capacity more than $60 billion and affects the lives of half the population as owners of life insurance and annuity contracts. Still in process of evolution, it helps to shape the pattern of life and is at the same time being shaped by its own environment.This third volume of lectures issued under the auspices of the S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education deals with significant trends and problems in life insurance at the midpoint of the twentieth century. In so doing, it bears testimony to the vitality and adaptive power of this modem device for sharing one another's burdens.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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