Level: Intermediate
Why you need this course:
After completing this course, you’ll be able to understand the factors affecting insurance cycles and the consequences of insurance operations.
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Describe how the legal and regulatory environment affects insurer operations
- Describe how general economic and business conditions affect insurer operations
- Identify the causes of specific insurance cycles
- Identify the types of business strategies that are effective during specific insurance cycles
- Define factors that influence underwriting cycles
- Explain how supply and demand affect underwriting cycles
- Describe the differences in how insurers and agents and brokers respond to hard and soft markets
- Explain why supply is more important than demand in influencing insurance pricing
- Describe how identifying underwriting cycles can help develop business strategy
Cost: $20 per Professional Development Hour (PDH). Information on Professional Development Hours (PDH) provided can be found here.
Insurance Cycles Topics Include:
- Insurer’s legal and regulatory environment
- Effect of insurer’s economic environment
- Causes of cycles
- Cycles and business strategies
- Factors influencing underwriting cycles
- Underwriting cycles: supply and demand
- Effects of underwriting cycles
- Cycles: profit and other industries
- Study of underwriting cycles
Additional Course Resource
Additional Knowledge Solutions
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