October. 2005

 

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The President of Steele was invited to give a speech to nearly 30 people coming from more than 20 insurance companies in Beijing on September 21. Those people were engaged in insurance claim settlement. The President introduced the experience in insurance claim investigation that Steele accumulated in the past 14 years. The attendees were deeply impressed by the President’s speech and had a new recognition of work division trend in the insurance industry.

In early September, all the employees of Steele had a happy trip to Sichuan Province , where they had further understanding with each other and enjoyed themselves in the beautiful natural scenery.

The President of Steele was invited to attend the annual conference of WAD held in Las Vegas , USA from September 19 to 24, 2005.

From October 1, 2005, names of those people who owe the banks money will be put in the “Black Name List” of individual credit on the nationwide network. The People's Bank of China officially promulgated the <Provisional Rules on Management of the Individual Credit Information Database> and stipulated expressly for collection and use of information on individual credit database in the commercial banks’ credit information system in future.

From September 5, 2005, citizens who litigate in The People’s Court of Chaoyang District, Beijing must fill out the <Affirmation of Plaintiff’s Address>. If the judge can’t summons the plaintiff at the affirmed address, it will be regarded that the plaintiff withdraws the suit.

China Life Insurance Company Limited and Shanghai Telecom Co., Ltd jointly announced that the channel of buying insurance on telephone has been opened in Shanghai . Now the clients may buy the vehicle accident insurance cards just by dialling the special line of Shanghai Telecom 968607*18 by their private fixed phone. To inspire the insurance account, clients only need to dial the service phone number of China Life Insurance. The insurance premium will be paid together with the telephone fee.

Taikang Life Insurance Company has developed a new insurance product for Chinese market which was called “Taikkang Hengtai Guaranteed Annuity Insurance”. Currently it is one of the annuity insurance products that have the longest period for paying insurance to the clients. No matter the customer is alive or not, he/she will be paid the pension for 20 years by a special pension account based on the insurance.

Information from CIRC (China Insurance Regulatory Commission): There is hope that the life expectancy table of life insurance originally planned to be worked out in 2006 will be officially put into practice this year. The prices of life insurance products will be revaluated with the practice of this table.

Classification of Enterprise Risks

 

In real operation, risks that companies face are in various forms. The first stage of risk management is to properly classify all the risks. Due to different standards of classification, it is very difficult to conduct risk classification, which makes people puzzled about the standards. Almost every book of risk management has its own theory. Management of enterprise risk certainly has strong characters, and different companies have their own stress. But from the general view of risk management in company, risks can be classified by their characters as follow:

a. Harmful risk   Harmful risk, also called pure risk, refers to the risk that only has the possibility of loss while without any chance of obtaining profits. There are only two possible results of it: getting or getting no loss. Since there is no possibility of profit, all we can do is to minimize the possibility of loss as much as we can. However it is just the theory. There is indeed cost in harmful risk control in practice. So when the amount of the reduction of risk loss is less than the cost of control, there is no need to control it. In this case, the harmful risk management is to obtain the balance between loss and cost. The harmful risks can be divided into two kinds: operational risk and non-operational risk. Operational risk means the loss caused by the internal management mistakes of a company. Non-operational risk means the non-operation loss caused by the external environment of a company. Non-operational risk can be further divided into insurable risk and non-insurable risk. With the development of the insurance market, the scope of insurable risk is becoming larger and larger.

b. Financial risk   Financial risk, also called venture risk, refers to the risk that has possibilities of both loss and profit. It has three possible results: getting loss, getting nothing or getting profits. Generally speaking, profits come together with risks. As the possibility of profit goes hand in hand with financial risk, the financial risk management is not simply to minimize it. In financial risk management, the risks assumed by a company should be decided by the preference of those people who take the risk and a perfect loss management system should be set up at the same time. In doing so, the company will become more competitive. Financial risk can be divided into operation risk and market risk. Operation risk means the risk of operation caused by the external environment of a company. Market risk means the risk caused by the variable elements directly related to a company’s operation. Actually it is not an easy job to distinguish the operation risk from the market risk.

 

  Tips of Risk Management
 

Generally speaking, the responsibilities of risk management personnel in a company mainly include eight respects as follow:

 Protect the properties of the company;

 Protect the security of some special thing, such as the records, business secrets and so on;

* Finance when the assets loss happens;

 Protect the security of the employees, customers, contract parties, and cooperators;

* Finance when the members mentioned above get injured 

 Reduce the loss made by the employees or agents and the debts loss;

 Administrate the retirement pension plan;

 Buy the reasonable life and health insurance.

 
 

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