Understanding profitability in life insurance

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<abstract displayLabel="Summary">Executive summary -- Introduction: life insurance today -- Historic trends in life profitability -- Measuing profitability -- Zooming in on produt performance -- Conclusion</abstract>
<tableOfContents displayLabel="Contents">Swiss Res newest sigma publication offers a guide to the fundamentals of understanding and measuring life profitability, and discusses the need to arrive at a standard framework for communicating the value and performance of life insurance companies</tableOfContents>
<note type="statement of responsibility">Milka Kirova, Lukas Steinmann</note>
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