The various types of insurance and Top 10 Biggest Insurance Companies in the World

What are the different types of Insurance?

Insurance is a mechanism of sharing losses of a few by many which reduces the cost of loss caused by a variety of risks.  It promises to pay the beneficiary of an asset a certain sum if a loss occurs. 

Ensure that you have sufficient insurance coverage. To know more about insurance and its type watch the full video.

The various types of insurance are:

• Life insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Travel insurance.
• Home insurance.
• motor or auto insurance provides protection for a vehicle.

i) What Is Life Insurance and How Does It Work?

your loved ones mean everything to you you provide for their everyday needs and their future dreams but what if something were to happen to you no one wants to think about dying but have you ever wondered how your loved ones would manage financially wouldn't you like to know you can with life insurance?

having life insurance means that if you were to die your loved ones would receive money that would allow them to pay funeral costs monthly bills and living expenses any outstanding debt including medical bills credit cards and mortgage and allow them to finance future needs like your children's education or your spouse's retirement, unfortunately, many people don't get life insurance because they believe it's too expensive for most people that's just not true.

ii) Understanding Your Health Insurance:

You're deciding which insurance plan to purchase, and want to know, how much is it going to cost. Well, it's not so simple.

Sometimes, you pay money for your health care. Sometimes, the insurance company pays money. But when?

To figure it all out, there are three main ideas you need to know.

Premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket maximum. It may sound complicated but stay with us. It's not as hard to understand as you think.

• Premiums.
• deductibles. 
• out-of-pocket maximum.

iii) What Is Travel Insurance?

Did you buy travel insurance only because your best friend’s mom’s cousin told you to? Or are you a savvy traveler who knows better than to leave home without a travel insurance plan? Either way, you’ll find it helpful to watch this short video about the ins and outs of travel insurance.

iv) Home insurance?

Homeowners insurance protects your most valuable investment.  Explore the basic property and liability coverages the standard homeowner's policy has to offer.  Visit www.central-insurance.com to learn more!

v) Motor or auto insurance provides protection for a vehicle.

In this video, we have a detailed discussion over car insurance, or called vehicle insurance. There can be different types of car insurance like first-party car insurance also called comprehensive car insurance or third-party car insurance. 

There are also many add-on plans in car insurance such as zero dept car insurance or like a return to invoice car insurance and many more.in this video, we also have discussed how to purchase car insurance online from some famous sites like policy Bazar car insurance, as online insurances are very common these days.

On the online platform, you can easily compare the car insurance of various companies such as acko general insurance tata AIG car insurance, or Bajaj Allianz car insurance or you can compare car insurance provided by banks, such as icici Lombard car insurance or hdfc ergo car insurance and can check the car insurance price. by watching this video you will come to know about a car insurance policy or car quote and we have also discussed both new car insurance as well as renewing car insurance.

TOP 10 BIGGEST INSURANCE COMPANIES IN THE WORLD

In this video, you will watch the Top 10 TRAVEL INSURANCE and Life insurance BIGGEST companies in the World. The largest insurance companies in the world are driving stellar growth for the global insurance industry. As you know there are many insurance companies but we have presented you the list of the top 10 insurance companies in the world:

Top Insurance companies in the world:

1. BERKSHIRE HАTHАWАY.
2. РING АN INSURАNСE ОF СHINА.
3. АXА.
4. Сhinа Life Insurаnсe Соmpany.
5. Аlliаnz SE.
6. Аssiсurаziоni General.
7. The Рeорle's Insurance Соmpany of Сhina.
8. Аvivа РLС.
9. Legal & General Group РLC.
10. Рrudentiаl РLС.
11. Metlife Insurance.
12. American International Group.
13. AIA Group LTD.
14. United Health Group Insurance.

1) Berkshire Hathaway:

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. The company wholly owns GEICO, BNSF, Lubrizol, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, FlightSafety International, and NetJets, owns half of Heinz and an undisclosed percentage of Mars, Incorporated, and has significant minority holdings in American Express, The Coca-Cola Company, Wells Fargo, and IBM. Berkshire Hathaway averaged an annual growth in book value of 19.7% to its shareholders for the last 49 years (compared to 9.8% from the S&P 500 with dividends included for the same period), while employing large amounts of capital, and minimal debt.

The company is known for its control by investor Warren Buffett, who is the company's chairman, president, and CEO, and Charlie Munger, the company's vice-chairman. Buffett has used the "float" provided by Berkshire Hathaway's insurance operations (paid premiums that are not held in reserves for reported claims and may be invested) to finance his investments. In the early part of his career at Berkshire, he focused on long-term investments in publicly quoted stocks, but more recently he has turned to buy whole companies. Berkshire now owns a diverse range of businesses including confectionery, retail, railroad, home furnishings, encyclopedias, manufacturers of vacuum cleaners, jewelry sales; newspaper publishing; manufacture and distribution of uniforms; as well as several regional electric and gas utilities.

2) РING АN INSURАNСE ОF СHINА.

Founded in 1988 in Shenzhen as the first joint-stock insurance company in China, Ping An has grown into a Fortune Global 500 company and the leader in financial service and technology.

3) AXA insurance company

AXA is a French multinational insurance firm headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris that engages in global insurance, investment management, and other financial services. The AXA Group operates primarily in Western Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific region, and the Middle East, with a presence also in Africa. AXA is a conglomerate of independently run businesses, operated according to the laws and regulations of many different countries. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

The company was originally founded in 1816 as Mutuelle de L'assurance contre L'incendie.It acquired Compagnie Parisienne de Garantie in 1978 and became Mutuelles Unies.It went on to buy the Drouot Group in 1982, becoming Mutuelles Unies/Drouot. It adopted the AXA name in 1985. The takeover of the American insurance company The Equitable came in 1991. It bought Union des Assurances De Paris, France's largest insurer, in 1996 becoming AXA-UAP for a while before reverting to the name AXA in 1999. Then in February 1999, AXA acquired Guardian Royal Exchange. In May 2000 AXA acquired all shares it did not already own in Sun Life & Provincial Holdings. On 14 June 2006 AXA acquired the leading Swiss insurance company Winterthur Group from Credit Suisse for approximately €9 billion.

4) Сhinа Life Insurаnсe Соmpany.

The China Life Insurance Company Limited is a Beijing-based China-incorporated company that provides life insurance and annuity products.

5) Allianz insurance company.

Allianz is a European financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. As of 2014, it is the world's largest insurance company, the largest financial services group, and the largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine, as well as the largest financial services company when measured by 2013 revenue. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

Its Allianz Global Investors division ranks as a top-five global active investment manager, having €1,933 billion of assets under management, of which €1,408 billion are third-party assets, with specialized asset managers including PIMCO, RCM, and Degi.

Allianz AG was founded in Berlin on 5 February 1890 by the director of the Munich Reinsurance Company Carl von Thieme and Wilhelm von Finck. The joint company was listed in Berlin's trade registerunder the name Allianz Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft.The first Allianz products were marine and accident policies first sold only in Germany, however in 1893 Allianz opened its first international branch office in London. It distributed marine insurance coverage to German clientele looking for coverage abroad.

6) AIA Group LTD company.

AIA Group Ltd., discusses first-half earnings, the business in China, and the company’s expansion plan. He speaks exclusively on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.”

AIA Group History company:

AIA Group Limited was founded in 1919 by a young American, Cornelius Vander Starr, as a small insurance agency in Shanghai, China.

AIA continued to increase its footprint in Asia with the establishment of branch offices in Hong Kong and Singapore in 1931, and in 1933 AIA entered Malaysia. Eventually, AIA Group expanded its business throughout Asia, the United States, and worldwide.

Today, AIA Group is a leading company in Life & Health Insurance Industry, Headquartered in Hong Kong. For the full history video of AIA Group Limited, please visit us on CompaniesHistory.com.

7) UnitedHealth Group.

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