The recent global crisis in the financial sector has demonstrated the need for good prudential regulation to govern financial institutions, including health insurance funds. The authors of this volume highlight that, when it comes to regulation of health insurance, more is not necessarily better. And good regulation by itself is not enough. Such regulation needs to be underpinned by a strong po…
Provides a review of the design and experience of risk-based pension fund supervision in countries that have been leaders in the development of these methods. The utilization of risk-based methods originates primarily in the supervision of banks. In recent years it has increasingly been extended to other types of financial intermediaries, including pension fund and insurers. The trend toward ri…