Understanding Consumer Financial Behavior: Money Management in an Age of Financial Illiteracy
W. Fred van Raaij
This book provides a systemic economic and behavioral approach to the way people handle their finances. It discusses the different types of financial behaviors consumers may engage in and explores the psychological explanations for their behavior and choices. This exciting new book is essential reading for scholars of marketing, finance, and management; financial professionals; and consumer policy makers.
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Informed Insurance Choice? : The Insurer’s Pre-Contractual Information Duties in General Consumer Insurance
Leander D. Loacker
This inspiring book will be of use to scholars dealing with financial law and general questions of information policy. Insurance companies and lawyers dealing with cases first-hand will also find this to be a resourceful read.
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Risk Analysis in Building Fire Safety Engineering
A.M. Hasofer, V.R. Beck, I.D. Bennetts
This book describes the theory and the models involved in risk analysis, and includes case studies of multiple fire scenarios. Building fire safety and human behavioural responses to these scenarios show the benefits of risk-based fire safety design. This book has case studies and examples from across the world, it also applies probabilistic and stochastic models to fire initiation, fire growth, smoke spread and human behavior, and co-written by a pioneering researcher in the field of building fire safety
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Applied Insurance Analytics: A Framework for Driving More Value from Data Assets, Technologies, and Tools
Patricia L. Saporito
This book is an easy-to-use guide that explains the main challenges you face when trying to get excellent healthcare: choosing the best insurance policy for your situation, finding the right doctor or hospital, buying prescription drugs the least expensive way, picking out the right Medicare plan, or fighting for your rights when dealing with insurers or medical providers. It includes tips, resources and strategies for navigating the healthcare system and avoiding common mistakes, so you can get the best healthcare for you, your family, or your organization without breaking the bank.
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State Health Insurance Market Reform: Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets
Edited by Alan C. Monheit and Joel C. Cantor
This book examines issues that are faced by both insurance and mutual fund companies. It also provides an overview of all of the relevant aspects of these investment and retirement products from an insurer’s and pension plan’s perspective and offers practical and theoretical advice. The editors have brought together a team of authors from the industry, resulting in a practical and essential text for any insurer.
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Health Insurance Industry Market Structure: Coverage and Cost Issues
Editor: Brent C. Jenner
This book is designed to serve as a valuable resource to those active in the insurance-linked securities marketplace, while also aiding basic understanding of the topics for those new to the field. The author offers a clear practitioner’s perspective as opposed to an academic one; this hands-on approach is particularly important in a market that is new and still evolving.
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Anti-Money Laundering: Risks, Compliance and Governance
Michael Ashe SC, QC and Paula Reid BL
This book provides a legal analysis of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist legislative framework set out in the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Acts, 2010 and 2013. Certain aspects of relevant regulatory guidance are also considered. The text provides guidance on the interpretation of the legal requirements and some insight to the practical application of the legal rules.
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Insurance Claim Secrets Revealed! : Take Control of Your Insurance Claims! Add Hundreds or Even Thousands More Dollars to Your Claim Settlement!
Russell D. Longcore
This book should be on the shelf in every home. This book should be in every automobile glove box. Do you carry a spare tire in the trunk of your car? Do you have jumper cables in your car? Do you have a toolbox at home? Ever bought a book that showed you how to fix something? Do you own a first aid kit? Do you have a fire extinguisher or smoke alarms in your home? Why would you do any
of those things?
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