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Insurance groups play an important role in today’s insurance markets. All the enterprises in the DJ (Dow Jones) Sector Titans Insurance Index operate as groups of companies.1 And these tend to be the largest groups. Other insurance groups of smaller size are also active in many markets around the world.
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Mächler, M. (2010). Evolution of Insurance Group Supervision. In: Kempler, C., Flamée, M., Yang, C., Windels, P. (eds) Global Perspectives on Insurance Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117372_9
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