The development of professional short term reinsurance in South Africa : 1950-1985

Title: The development of professional short term reinsurance in South Africa : 1950-1985
Creator: Laing, Angus Wallace
Subject: Reinsurance -- South Africa
Date Issued: 1990
Date: 1990
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:926
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001452
Description: This thesis covers the history of short term reinsurance in South Africa from 1950 to 1985 and shows how it developed from a very limited market in which insurers generally relied on British and European professional reinsurers to a viable local market albeit with strong foreign support. The study demonstrates that the local reinsurance market grew in parallel with the development of the South African economy and the consequent need for extensive cover arising from the country's industrial expansion. It considers the different problems of the two waves of locally established reinsurers and the different circumstances prevailing in the two distinct eras of South African short term reinsurance. The conclusion reached is that, notwithstanding the varied results of individual reinsurers and the collapse of two local reinsurance companies, the market performed well and succeeded in meeting the needs of the South African short term insurance market
Format: 194 p
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Commerce, Economics and Economic History
Language: English
Rights: Laing, Angus Wallace

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