Performance determinants of life insurers: A systematic review of the literature
- Authors: Zinyoro, Tafadzwanash , Aziakpono, Meshach J
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469908 , vital:77306 , https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2023.2266915
- Description: The life insurance industry plays a crucial role in the economy as it serves as one of the channels through which countries mobilize long-term savings, promote the development of capital markets, foster efficient capital allocation, and substitute and complement government security programs. Therefore, the performance of this sector is imperative. Since the early 1990s, researchers have been paying particular attention to the performance of life insurance firms, with a specific emphasis on identifying the key determinants of their performance. The objective of this study is to synthesize the studies that have explored this topic. Using a systematic literature review approach, the study reviews 129 studies published between 1990 and 2021. The analysis reveals that the literature primarily examines factors such as size, organizational structure, capital composition, diversification, distribution systems, risk management practices, and reinsurance strategies as key firm-specific drivers of life insurer performance. Additionally, the study underscores the importance of competition and macroeconomic conditions as commonly discussed external determinants. While a clear relationship between performance and factors like firm size, organizational structure, and risk management practices is evident, the impact of other factors remains inconclusive. One of the implications of this study is that policymakers should enact laws that promote competition in the insurance industry. The study also reveals several research gaps, including methodological gaps.
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- Date Issued: 2023
Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science: research report series 19
- Authors: Jones, Clifford L W , Pattrick, Paula
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , Book
- Identifier: vital:7161 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011935
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- Date Issued: 2007
Cogmanskloof
- Authors: Küpper, Ingrid
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Farms -- South Africa -- Montagu -- History , De Pasqual family , De Pasqual, Jan Daniel , Cogmanskloof (South Africa : Farm)
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66370 , vital:28941
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- Date Issued: 1987
Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Etendeka volcanic rocks from SWA Namibia
- Authors: Erlank, Anthony J , Marsh, Julian S , Duncan, Andrew R , Miller, R M , Hawkesworth, C J , Betton, P J , Rex, D C
- Date: 1984
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133923 , vital:37041 , https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetailamp;idt=6519919
- Description: The volcanic rocks of the Etendeka Formation from north-west SWA/Namibia have a present-day coverage of 70,000 km² and comprise a series of interbedded basalts, latites and quartz latites, together with four varieties of intrusive dolerite. Apart from one group of dolerites (regional dolerites) which have mineralogical and geochemical similarities to the Lesotho Formation lavas from the Central area, the Etendeka volcanics differ from all other Karoo volcanics by virtue of their Cretaceous age, stratigraphy, mineralogy, geochemistry, and range in mineralogical, elemental and isotopic compositions for the basaltic rocks.
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- Date Issued: 1984
SASPU editorial style book
- Authors: Greaves, Duncan , Quinlan, Vicky
- Date: 1982-06
- Subjects: Journalism -- Style manuals
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75388 , vital:30410
- Description: Language is the tool of the journalist. Whatever the aims of the student press, little can be achieved unless copy is written in clean, correct English. The purpose of this style guide is to suggest some guidelines for correct style. Each student newspaper must make its own decisions on the issues discussed here. Many of the points made below are discussed annually at Congress; frequently the only decision is an agreement to disagree. Once a newspaper has made a decision on style, however, that decision should be scrupulously followed. The South African student press cannot be completely consistent, but any newspaper can and should be.
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- Date Issued: 1982-06