Reinsurance:
Fundamentals and New Challenges
by Ruth Gastel (Editor)
"Reinsurance is a form of insurance for insurance companies-a way of spreading the risk more widely. Until recently, reinsurance was a topic familiar only to those in the insurance industry directly involved in reinsurance transactions. Today, however, reinsurance is a subject of particular concern to those responsible for regulating the industry and of increasing interest to the financial community as a whole. To meet this growing interest, the Insurance Information Institute asked a number of reinsurance experts to write articles on the technical aspects of reinsurance for readers unfamiliar with the business. These essays, as a group, describe in simple terms what reinsurance is, how the industry functions, and provide a broad overview of the new challenges facing the industry today."
Remaking Health Care in America, Second Edition
by Stephen M. Shortell (Editor), Robin R. Gillies, David A. Anderson
From Book News, Inc.
"Examines the progress of nine health care delivery systems and discusses health care concerns such as the public backlash against managed care and the challenges of providing care to people with chronic illness. Of interest to health services executives, insurers and payers, policy makers, and researchers..." Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
The Right Way to Hire Financial Help: A Complete Guide to Choosing and Managing Brokers, Financial Planners, Insurance Agents, Lawyers, Tax Preparers, Bankers, and Real Estate Agents
by Charles A. Jaffe
"The Right Way to Hire Financial Help goes where no other personal finance book has gone before. Chuck Jaffe offers solid, no-nonsense advice that can help people save--and even make--a bundle." --
Gerri Detweiler, financial author and former director of the National Council of Individual Investors
"Hiring financial help is a task that many otherwise savvy people approach the wrong way, opting to go on recommendations from family and friends, chance encounters, or advertisements rather than on sound research.
In witty, highly readable prose, nationally syndicated columnist Charles A. Jaffe takes the reader through the basics of how to locate appropriate candidates, understand their credentials, check references, conduct initial interviews, maintain control of the relationships and ones finances, and fire an advisor who is not working out.
"The book contains guidance on hiring and checking the backgrounds of seven types of advisors--brokers, financial planners, insurance agents, lawyers, tax preparers, bankers, and real estate agents--as well as specific questions to ask to determine whether an advisor is a good, qualified match. In addition the book offers guidance on how to help the advisors function as a team. The author's aim is to help the reader assemble and manage a pool of advisors to serve every major need for the rest of a financial lifetime."
