1.0 Executive Summary Firstly‚ an introduction and background relating to HIH insurance company will be given. Then the cause of HIH collapse is going to be discuss in the following part‚ mainly focused on the failure of financial risk management‚ the failure of auditor‚ the failure of regulation and the lack of independence for non-executive director. Thirdly‚ according to the analysis of the problem‚ the paper offers suggestions as to deal with those problems，followed by a brief
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1. INTRODUCTION “The collapse of the HIH Insurance group (“HIH”) resulted in a deficiency of up to A$5.3 billion‚ making it Australia’s largest corporate failure. The ensuing Royal Commission report released in April 2003 provides a rare detailed dissection of a spectacular corporate implosion and a very useful case study from which corporate governance lessons may be learned. This is particular so because HIH was not unusual case of major fraud or embezzlement. The failures identified by Commissioner
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Apart from streamlining their processes through technology initiatives such as ATMs‚ telephone banking‚ online banking and web based products‚ banks have also resorted to cross selling of financial products such as credit cards‚ mutual funds and insurance policies to augment their fee based income. RBI’s soft interest rate policy has helped increase the liquidity in the market‚ and banks have been liquidating their gilt portfolios partially to free resources for lending. Credit off take is expected
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corporations‚ including HIH Insurance‚ Harris Scarf‚ One. Tel‚ Ansctt Australia. This paper focuses on the financial audit of HIH insurance‚ which collapsed on 15th March 2001. This was the largest failure in Australian business history. Royal commission was appointed investigate re-issue of HIH Insurance collapsed with debt estimated $5.3 billion Australian dollars (Mirshekary‚ S‚ 2005). A brief review of the incidence of corporate failure will be provided prior to an analysis of the collapse of Health
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WORLD INSURANCE REPORT 2013 2013 World Insurance report TABLE OF CONTENTS 05 Preface 07 CHAPTER 1 Many Non-Life Insurers Continue to See Improvements in Core Underwriting Performance 07 — Introduction 08 CONTENTS 10 — Efficiency-Ratio Model Shows Many Countries Improved Non-Life Claims Ratios in 2011‚ but Some Were Hit Hard by Catastrophe Claims — Many Insurers Find Acquisition Costs Are Stubbornly High 17 — Conclusion 19
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SWOT analysis From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search A SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture or in any other situation of an organization or individual requiring a decision in pursuit of an objective. It involves monitoring the marketing environment internal and external to the organization or individual. The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey
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Corporate Governance HIH; What Went Wrong? During 2000 at the Institute of Actuaries annual seminar on general insurance‚ two senior actuaries‚ Peter McCarthy and Geoff Trahair‚ presented a paper that rang alarm bells for HIH Insurance. Even though HIH was not mentioned in the paper [entitled “Lack of industry profitability and other stories”] the insurance industry was accused of under pricing policies‚ pressuring actuaries to reduce the projected level of outstanding claims liabilities and
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SWOT ANALYSIS IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co Ltd Company Profile IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co Ltd is a joint-venture of IDBI Bank‚ India’s premier development and commercial bank‚ Federal Bank‚ one of India’s leading private sector banks and Ageas‚ a multinational insurance giant based out of Europe. In this venture‚ IDBI Bank owns 48% equity while Federal Bank and Ageas own 26% equity each. Having started in March 2008‚ in just five months of inception‚ IDBI Federal became one of the fastest
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AccountsDELTA LIFE INSURANCE Co. Ltd. OBJECTIVE:A SWOT analysis must first start with defining a desired end state or objective. A SWOT analysis may be incorporated into the strategic planning model. An example of a strategic planning technique that incorporates an objective-driven SWOT analysis is Strategic Creative Analysis (SCAN). Strategic Planning‚ including SWOT and SCAN analysis‚ has been the subject of much research. I was curious about the SWOT analysis of Delta Life Insurance Co. Ltd. I tried
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SWOT Analysis Opportunities The Bank is very well placed with a good and assured customer base from the level of the government and the public sector business. Many patriotic Nationals will do business with Sample Bank Ltd because they know that the profits of the Bank belong to the people of the country and are used for the country’s development. The availability of modern telecommunication systems and technology will facilitate the improvement and strengthening of the Bank’s international business
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