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5 Biggest Insurance Companies in the World

Posted on July 1st, 2010 in Uncategorized by

Insurance is understood as a form of risk management that is used for hedge against the risk of contingent, uncertain loss, from one entity to another one. Ands this trend of insurance has developed into a very nice practice through out the globe and is controlled by some big companies.  Below is given list of some big companies in insurance.

  1. America Int Group: American International Group, Inc is an American insurance corporation having it’s headquarter at American International Building in New York City. Its British headquarters office is located at Fenchurch Street in London. Its Asian headquarters is situated in HongKong. According to the facts of 2008 Forbes 2000 list, AIG was placed at 18th position among the public companies of the world.
  2. AXA Group: It is a French global insurance company having its office in Paris. It is a conglomerate of independently run business under operation of the laws and regulations of the respective country where it has having its operations. Its operations mainly are in control in countries of Western Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East. It has five operating business segments like Life & Savings, Property & Casualty, International Insurance (including reinsurance), Asset Management and Other Financial Services. It was ranked as the 73rd largest company in the world based upon the 2009 Fortune Global 500 list.
  3. Allianz Worldwide: It is one of the largest financial companies of the world having its headquarters in Munich, Germany. Its primary business is into insurance. With worth of around 92.5 billion euro during 2008, it is the second largest international insurance and financial services organization in the world. . Allianz Global Investors ranks as a top-five global active investment manager, having €970 billion of assets under management (AuM).
  4. Manulife Financial: Manulife Financial Corporation that is also known by the name of The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company is a very big Canadian insurance company and financial services provider. Operating from its head office in Toronto, Canada it has worldwide operations in several countries including the United States and in 10 Asian countries and regions. It is the largest insurance company in North America and is world’s forth largest, as based upon the market capitalization.
  5. Prudential Financial: It is a Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company having its stake in areas like insurance, investment management and other financial products as catered to both retail and institutional customers throughout the United States and over 30 other countries. Principal products and services include life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, pension- and retirement-related investments, administration and asset management, securities brokerage services, and commercial and residential real estate in many states of the U.S. It holds more than around $2 trillion of life insurance.

7 Free iPhone Apps to Calculate Anything

Posted on May 1st, 2010 in Uncategorized by

Calculators happen to be devices digital and rather inexpensive to carry out the basic operations of arithmetic. According to their utility calculators comes in variety of forms and functionality, however, below is mentioned iPhone calculators to measure and count upon everything.

  1. TouchCalc: It is very helpful scientific calculator as provided as a free iPhone application has many a good number of features and modes to select from. The modes are as following basic arithmetic, power, logarithm, roots, trigonometry, logical operations such as AND, OR, XOR, >> etc, binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal. This calculator can perform activities to calculate mean, median, quantil values, variance, deviation and range etc.
  2. Loan Calculator Pro: It is an easy to use financial calculator as helps in calculating different types of fixed rate loans monthly payments like home mortgage, auto and credit card. You can calculate “what if” scenarios to determine how additional monthly and yearly payment will help you to pay off your loan earlier and save money in interest.  Its another additional features are Early Payment Simulation,   Extra Payment Tracking, Fast Calculations, Large Numeric Keypad, Amortization Table, Bookmark of Payments, etc.
  3. Tipulator: It is calculator that helps to calculate tips at a restaurant what you need to do is to enter the bill amount, select a percentage and Tipulater would arrive with the result. It is very simple and beautiful interface wise can be split checked among several people, has optional rounding on check total or tip.
  4. Graphing Calculator for iPhone:  Graphing Calculator for iPhone is an easy to use scientific calculator that plot and trace multiple equations on the same graph. It has custom keyboard to speed up entering in equations, pinch to zoom and drag or slide for scrolling the graph in real time. Its graph view supports portrait and landscape modes, take screen shots and e-mail graphs.
  5. Medical Calculator for iPhone:  It is a next generation clinical calculator and decision supporting tool and is available freely to the medical community.   It is focused upon highlighting tools that are very useful in clinical practice and being used for impact diagnosis and treatment. It is a point-of-care tool in areas of cardiology, internal medicine, nephrology, general practice, hematology, gastroenterology, emergency medicine, oncology, orthopedics, respirology, neurology, neurosurgery, general surgery and obstetrics.
  6. RPN Calculator 1.1: Inspired by my HP calculator it does not use parenthesis and requires less key pressing than usual calculators. For example 3 * (7 – 5) + 2 in RPN is 7 5 – 3 * 2 +. It is provided in three display formats standard, scientific, numbers always are shown with Exx format where xx is a multiple of 3.  One can use any of the formats toggling by pressing the “Format” key.
  7. Units 1.1.2: It is a very helpful application for the iPhone and iPod Touch and allows an easy convertibility of units for the sake of exchange. There units can be converted into Area, Currency, Energy, Temperature, Time, Length, Weight, Speed, Pressure, Power, and Volume. It also has a built in ruler for small quick measurement in need.

Online Masters In Risk Management

Posted on April 21st, 2010 in Uncategorized by

Online degrees are becoming more popular with people nowadays. Most people prefer to take their degrees online as it is more flexible and convenient. You can find various degree programs online and all you have to do is select the one of your choice enroll in a school and you are good to go. One of the programs which are offered online is a master’s degree in risk management. The program takes two years for its completion. You need to have a bachelor’s degree before you enroll for this program. The bachelor’s degree may be in any field but bachelor degrees in social sciences, business and developmental studies are given priority as the masters degree would be a way of enhancing the degree. Other than having the degree you need to have a good academic record so that you can qualify to be accepted in an online.

The aspects of risk management include the steps which occur when a risk is about to occur or has already occurred. This leaves one to answer a few questions such as what is the worst hat can happen, how can it be prevented from happening or how will we respond when it happens and if it does happen how much will we pay for it. Risks are not eliminated through good risk management skills but one has to go through the process risk identification, assessment and treatment to be able to solve the problem efficiently. These results work differently for different situations.

Risk management mostly deals with risk prevention, labor laws, theories dealing with security management, auditing, industrial safety and environmental hazards, workers compensations and legislations dealing with compliances. Risk management also helps the students to deal with issues such as public emergency services and planning the prevention of risks which gives the graduates both theoretical knowledge and practical skills to be able to deal with consultant and managerial positions in the business and public sectors. The degree enables the students to learn several issues which constitute general liability, insurance Prevention of property loss and risk theories. It also offers business management and theory knowledge which are a plus for the students. One acquires skills to evaluate and avoid unnecessary risks.

When you have a masters degree in this field you can be able to apply the skills you obtained in different industries as a consultant or a manager. The most common one would be the insurance industry as most of the things you learn can be applied here with ease. You can work as an insurance underwriter, a financial investor or a claims officer. The job growth of this career has been rising and is expected to grow with this trend for many years to come.