Insurance Market
Health Insurance - Market or Great Expectation
> Private health insurances: few policies sold, the legislation is not complete and potential customers are far from understanding how the system works. Two years from the launch of private health insurances Alexandru CIUNCAN and Mihaela CIRCU analyze the market’s development.
A Reference in Health Insurance. Basic Package
> Thanks to Dan CONSTANTINESCU, author of the HEALTH INSURANCES: Between the Paternalist State and Individual Responsibility volume, we present a fragment of the chapter dedicated to the basic medical service package.
Motor Insurance. Between profit and loss
> Daniela GHETU presents a synthesis of the debates hosted by the National Motor Insurance Conference. The event was dedicated to the hot issues regarding the development and the profitability of the Romanian motor insurance market.
Interview
Interview with Antonio SOUVANNASOUCK,
Managing Partner of ASIGEST and
member of the Steering Committee, UNSICAR
> The recent evolution of the insurance market has highlighted the importance of insurance brokers. How much more is to be done in order to develop this market in Romania we will find out from a dialogue between Daniela GHETU and Antonio SOUVANNASOUCK.
Extern Event
Challenges for Russian Reinsurers
> Just arrived before closing the edition, Oleg DORONCEANU presents you the main issue under debate during the 11th edition of the Russian Reinsurance Conference held in Moscow between the 28th and the 29th of March, an event organized by the Russian Insurers Reinsurers Association.
Insurance Brokers
European Brokerage
> Liviu HULUTA offers you an analysis of the hot-topics under fire on the insurance intermediation and consultancy, as they were debated during the National Insurance Brokers Conference.
e-Business
Instant Insurance
Interview with Sorin DRAGOMIR,
Executive Director - IT Division, GENERALI Asigurari
> Daniela GHETU has interviewed Sorin DRAGOMIR, Executive Director – IT Division, GENERALI Asigurari, on issues like introducing an IT system that boosted the company’s efficiency.
Country Profile
POLAND
> For the last 17 years Poland has registered important changes in terms of market liberalization and major economic and institutional reforms. The insurance market made no exception. Andreea IONETE comments upon the evolution registered by the polish insurance market during the last few years with a special accent on 2005 and the first three quarters of 2006.
Pensions
Interview with Bram BOON
The vice-president of
Association for Private Pensions from Romania
> The future pension market, plus and minuses of the current legislation, APAPR activity, all in a dialogue between Liviu HULUTA and Bram BOON, APAPR Vicepresident and CEO of ING Asigurari de Viata.
Between “AND” & “OR”
> As the private pension system is being set up there is, already, a “parallel offer” oftenly perceived as another Pillar III. So, what is it going to be? Private pensions or pension-like life insurances? Constantin NASTASE comments upon the confusion in terms between the two products that generated a new controversy. |
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EDITORIAL
What’s new? |
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by Sergiu COSTACHE
General Director of Media XPRIMM |
When you are reading these
lines, you have probably already thoroughly analysed all preliminary data and information on the year 2006. They were presented for the very first
time in the March issue of the specialized magazine
Insurance PROFILE (http://www.insuranceprofile.ro/), a publication that gets more
readers every month.
By looking at the top rankings, the quantitative changes and the qualitative developments, we can surely state that 2007 will bring on many opportunities, as well as challenges.
Loyal to the role we have taken on and bearing in mind the needs and requirements of a developing and positioning market, we decided to help you get accurate, detailed and useful information about this market.
For this main reason 1asig.ro, the most popular Romanian insurance portal, changed its look. You must have noticed that this new design brings you much more information in a better structured and easy to access layout.
I am also convinced that you liked the innovative presentation of the National Programme “Where Do I Buy My Insurance?” that we included both in this newsletter, and in the PRIMM Magazine.
I think you are also happy to read about future specialised National Conferences (motor, health, private pensions, etc.) and I’m sure that our partnerships with the best-profiled European insurance and pension market events have caught your eye.
Exactly eight years ago, in April of 1999, we were launching the first issue of PRIMM Magazine, the very first quarterly out on the Romanian insurance market. From this issue on, the most famous national publication in the field will get on your desk every month.
Thus, besides the ten Romanian issues, you will also receive two summary issues in English, released for the major events of this market – the Annual Forums from Sinaia and Baden-Baden. Considering all these, I think that our initial goal, from almost ten years ago, to provide useful, needed, accurate, timely and full information about insurance market happenings and development is on the right track, which we greatly owe to the support we get from you – our loyal readers. | |
