SİGORTA SEKTÖRÜNDE DEĞERLEME YAKLAŞIMI: NET PRİM DEĞERLEME YÖNTEMİ VE SERMAYELEŞME DÜZEYİ.

In today's world, insurance products emerge not only as a means of protection but also an important investment tool. This paper describes the valuation of participating life insurance contracts by net premium method. When valuating of participating life insurance policy, premiums are loaded with safety margins to provide policy holders from the effects of the impact of the financial and demographic changes. Due to the importance of avoidance of capitalization in valuation process, it has been observed that determination of the valuation method to be used has a great importance in valuing participating life insurance. This paper shows that net premium valuation method cannot avoid capitalization. Moreover, it is observed that insurance companies face with valuation losses by using net premium valuation method when policy holders stop the premium payments before the term of the policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]