An evaluation of the financial soundness of insurance firms in the Amman Stock Exchange
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Author(s)Hussein Mohammad SalamehLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6893-1862
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DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ins.13(1).2022.02
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Financial soundness of insurance firms within a country tends to heavily affect its financial environment. This study will further assess the relationship between both factors with the support of a special model to test the financial soundness of insurance companies. The model could be utilized as an indicator of the stabilization of a country’s financial environment; this is done by testing the insurance companies’ falls. The methodology used was discriminant regression on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) to test 12 indicators that were derived from six CARMEL model parameters. The six tested parameters were: capital adequacy, asset quality, reinsurance and actuarial issues, management efficiency, earnings and profitability, and liquidity. The results have shown that 10 out of 12 indicators are significant factors. Additionally, the study proved that the CARMEL model is an applicable model to test the financial soundness of ASE insurance companies, the possibility of detecting a deviation between the actual and expected performance was barely minimum. The effect of deviation was present in eight firms out of 19, three of which were affected by the type II error (riskier deviation). The study concluded that the CARMEL model is a significant model, and the insurance firms that follow the Jordan Insurance Federation (JIF) requirements are financially sound.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)G22, G32, C52
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References29
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Tables7
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- Table 1. Descriptive statistics
- Table 2. Test of means’ equality
- Table 3. Correlation matrix
- Table 4. Covariance matrices equality
- Table 5. Canonical discriminant functions
- Table 6. Classification statistics results
- Table 7. Performance vs. predicted performance
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Failure threats of insurance companies: A case study of financial environments of Jordan
Hussein Mohammad Salameh
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.18(3).2021.11
Investment Management and Financial Innovations Volume 18, 2021 Issue #3 pp. 113-126 Views: 775 Downloads: 383 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯInsurance firms are known to have unique financial failure characteristics that affect the financial environment of the countries. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the validity of the model used in predicting the financial failures of insurance companies. The model is believed to help in stabilizing the financial environment of the countries by predicting any collapses in the insurance sector. A discriminate regression technique was used to test 28 indicators chosen from 11 financial failure model parameters. 11 parameters of the model are the following: solvency, profitability, operational capabilities, structural soundness, capital expansion capacity, capital adequacy, reinsurance and actuarial issues, management soundness, capital expansion capacity, earnings and profitability, and liquidity. The results of the study proved that 22 variables from 11 parameters were significant; the study also validated the use of the financial failure model as a stable predictor of the financial failure of ASE insurance firms. The stability of the insurance industry is interpreted through the minimum deviation between the real and measured performances. The deviation was present in 3 out of 95 observations, and it affected only 3 firms out of 19, 1 firm out of 3 turned out to be affected by the risker deviation which is the type II error distorted observation. To conclude, the study by mentioning that insurance firms are not threatened by failure or distress and the financial failure model is a valid prediction model.
