Download or read book Current and future problems of life insurance companies written by Tanja Herkert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the industrialized countries, around the end of the nineteenth century the life insurance companies started integrating death into the business world. The process of monetarizing life was born. This paper examines how the term life insurance can be defined and which kinds of life insurance exist, focusing on the two countries Germany and the United States. It will show that there are mainly three types of life insurances as well in Germany as in the United States which are term life insurance, endowment insurance and annuity insurance. Focusing then on the consumption of life insurances the different factors of demographic, economic and institutional determinants will be taken into account and examined again for both countries, Germany and the United States. After explaining what the different factors influencing life insurance consumption are and how they correlate to the consumption it is being analyzed which risks insurance companies are facing today and will face in the future. The main risks are lower life insurance consumption due to the (external) influencing factors and longevity risk. Longevity risk will then be explained based on the concept of life tables as well as how to hedge against longevity risk including calculations. Lastly a conclusion will be drawn, summing up the problems and risks that arise for insurance companies and offering a solution.