Of course, the problems are not damning; they're problems that reflect the progress yet needed to be made in insurance.
当然,这些问题并不是非常糟糕的,这些问题反映了,保险行业中还有待改进之处
and we help businesses that are doing business in other countries get insurance in those countries, so.
我们帮助在外国经营的公司在那些国家得到保险,就这样。
Well, in insurance there's a similar list of inventions.
在保险学的发展中也有一系列类似的突破
When they invented fire insurance, in the 1600s, there was a lot of skepticism because anyone can burn down their house.
十七世纪时,人们发明了火险,当时存在很多质疑,因为任何人都可以烧毁他们的房子。
We had deposit insurance starting in The Great Depression and that's been very important; it's now in every country.
存款保险始于大萧条时期,一直发挥着重要作用,现在遍布各个国家
Notably, we saw Hurricane Katrina that caused huge property damage in--a couple of years ago-- that, kind of, tested insurance companies again.
尤其是卡特里娜飓风,在几年前它导致了巨大的财产损失,这又是一个对保险公司的考验
Moreover, beyond that, how does one know, in taking out an insurance policy, that the insurance company is going to be sound?
除此之外,在人们购买保险时,该如何得知保险公司,会严格按照保单言而守信呢?
So they--in other words, the insurance company--doesn't trust the insurance companies to do the calculations like I showed with the binomial theorem.
因此他们...也就是说,他们不放心让保险公司按照二项式定理,自己计算准备金要求
Insurance now, in the United States, is regulated not by the federal government but by insurance regulators in each of the fifty states.
如今,美国的保险业,并不是由联邦政府直接监管,而是由各个州的监管机构监管
The same question was rephrased in another way, without mentioning the word insurance-- they just described it.
同样的问题,但另一种提问方式,没有提到保险这个字眼-,而仅仅是对保险做了描述。
What this means in the insurance context is that if you offer insurance policies you will tend to attract people who are higher risk.
保险中选择性偏差的意思是,如果你提供某个险种,吸引的是承受该险种风险较大的人群
The third thing I was going to report was that sociologist Viviana Zelizer wrote a book about life insurance sales in the nineteenth century.
我要讲的第三件事是,社会学家维维安娜·泽利泽写的一部关于,19世纪寿险销售情况的著作
In order to devise an insurance contact that does this job, we have to have a contract between an insurance company and the insured.
要想设计一个保险合约,要想做这项工作,我们得在保险公司和,被保险人之间建立一个合约。
I think it's the most important theoretical concept that underlies finance and insurance, which we'll also talk about a little bit in this course.
我认为,这是构成金融学和保险学,最重要的理论核心概念,而这些我们在以后的课程中,还会再提到
In the case of life insurance, they developed actuarial tables that require a collecting of statistics.
就人寿保险来说,还需要开发出精准的表格,这需要收集很多统计数据。
With non-participating--with participating, you are participating in the portfolio outcome that the insurance company is experiencing, so you have some uncertainty about your cash value.
所谓参与式分红保险,是指你的收益来自某个投资组合收益,而这个投资组合是由保险公司来管理的,所以保单的现金价值是不确定的
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