the rate of income considerably anymore, than give the investment of money in bank
deposits.
Thus, under liquidity of insurance company it follows to understand ability of her
quickly to convert the assets into monetary resources and pay off to fear and
uninsurance obligations. Under solvency it follows to understand ability of insurance
company to plan the receipt of monetary resources and realization in time of
calculations after obligations in the normal terms of menage.
The summarizing indexes of efficiency of activity of insurance companies in
comparing to the competitors are competition positions. The «estimation of
competition position of firm allows to define as far as strong today's competition
position of firm, what change of competition position it is possible to expect today's
strategy at the use, what grade of firm in relation to key rivals in every important
component of competition force and branch key factor of success, what list of
competitive edges of firm and possibility of firm to protect the position» [29, p. 73].
For the evaluation of competition position of insurance company the formalized
and unformalized data can be used, that stipulates the variety of application of methods
of economics and mathematics, imitation design and expert evaluation. Having regard
to it the existent methods of financial management can be divided into those, that will
characterize the financial state of insurer, competitiveness of insurance services, be
based on the evaluation of efficiency of administrative work (expert evaluation,
situational analysis, stowage of maps of strategic groups) and determination of market
positions by models M. Porter, McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and other.
The most objective and prudent in determining the competitive position of the
insurance company will be the evaluation of several methods, with the possible
comparison, comparison and synthesis of the results.
To the list of indicators of the insurer's competitiveness at a certain date, which
characterize its financial status can be attributed:
−
the ratio of equity and statutory capital, which in excess of 1 indicates the
profitability of activities and the ability to develop, otherwise, the lack of financial
support for further development,
−
an indicator of the provision of own funds, which characterizes the financial
stability of the insurance company and is determined by the ratio of the amount of
equity to technical reserves;
−
a stand-by leverage, which can be used to assess the flexibility of capital
management; it is an indicator reversed to the previous one and is determined by the
ratio of the amount of technical reserves to equity;
−
income generation indicator, which reveals the aggregate potential of
available resources and the quality of management of them, is the ratio of net cash flow
to the average annual amount of assets of the insurer;
−
the coefficient of loading by means of which one can estimate the rationality
of the expenses of the insurance fund, determined by dividing the amount of expenses
for conducting business into the amount of insurance premiums;
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