A Research on Some Challenges of Risk Management in Indian Insurance Sector: A Systematic Approach

Examining the Impact of Risk Management Practices on the Profitability of Indian Insurance Companies

by Malvika Dhawan*,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 12, Issue No. 2, Jan 2017, Pages 922 - 927 (6)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals


ABSTRACT

Risk if not very much oversaw could prompt breakdown for most organizations particularly those whose center business manages everyday treatment of risk. This includes identifying and dissecting risks, creating and executing risk taking care of procedures and monitoring the advancement of these so as to keep away from or potentially decrease the effect of risk on the financial performance of the firm. Insurance has an imperative job in this procedure. Medical coverage and benefits systems are principal to ensuring people against the perils of life and India, as the second most crowded country on the planet, offers tremendous potential for that kind of spread. Moreover, flame and obligation insurance are fundamental for organizations to monitor speculation risks and framework ventures. Private insurance systems supplement standardized savings systems and include an incentive by coordinating risk with cost. Risk management ought to be at the center of all insurance companies‟ tasks by coordinating risk management practices into processes, systems and culture of the whole association. The motivation behind this investigation was to survey the effect of risk management on the profitability of insurance company. The investigation built up that operational risk management practices have positive impact on the profitability of insurance firm. The examination additionally uncovered that there is a noteworthy connection between key risk management practices and the profitability of insurance company.

KEYWORD

risk management, Indian insurance sector, systematic approach, operational risk management practices, profitability

INTRODUCTION

Because of globalization and exceptional challenge, risks are expanding and risk management is turning into an essential part for the accomplishment of pretty much every association, particularly for the insurance sector on account of their high-risk businesses, as the risks are related with each customer in the business and their very own risk. Insurance companies are in the center business of overseeing risk. The companies deal with the risks of both their customers and their very own risks. This requires a combination of risk management into the companies' systems, processes and culture. The risk management process comprises of a progression of steps, which are setting up the specific situation, identifying, breaking down, assessing, treating, monitoring and communicating risks, which permit ceaseless improvement of decision making (Standards Australia). By executing risk management association can diminish sudden and exorbitant astonishments and compelling distribution of assets could be progressively powerful. It improves correspondence and gives senior management a compact outline of dangers, which can be looked by the association, hence at last helping them in better decision making. Risk Management is "A systematic method for securing the worry's assets and pay against misfortunes so the points of the business can be accomplished without interference". Subsequently risk management represents aversion and relief of mischief. If there should be an occurrence of insurance, risk management is an instrument or strategy to plan and alter insurance policy to limit misfortune. We are examining risk management for its positive and negative impact. Risk management is imperative for each association however it has uncommon significance in an insurance company. It is a procedure by which an association recognizes the risk joined with their exercises and it is done to guarantee the maintainability of advantage. The point of convergence of good risk management is the acknowledgment and managing of risks. Its motivation is to grasp most extreme maintainable incentive to every one of the exercises of the association. It sorts out the insightful of the conceivable advantage and issue of each one of those variables which can influence the association. It improves the probability of progress, and lessens both the probability of disappointment and the

As of late, terms as Risk Management is heard alongside the terms like " Holistic Risk Management" , "Risk Management Models", "Risk Models", " Enterprise Risk management" additionally the presentation of Chief Risk Officers in different association in the best management has demonstrated the significance of Risk management among the organizations. 'Risk Management' is an incorporated procedure that recognizes, classifies, analyses and quantifies the financial effect of different risks associated with maintaining a business. It is an apparatus that perceives the potential dangers to the business' goals and enables management to settle on educated decisions on the suitable strategy, be it to alleviate, exchange or designate capital to the risk. Risk management is a basic business practice and, for it to be genuinely compelling, a company must guarantee that risk management is installed inside its culture. Risk management is certainly not another idea in life insurance and a significant number of the fundamental standards are as old as the insurance industry itself. Most of companies as of now have some type of risk management process set up. In any case, over late years, there has been noteworthy advancement in creating and formalizing these processes and even in utilizing them for administrative purposes. The real reason of all settled business is profit as they meet human obvious needs and need, and keep on overwhelming the market, however every financial movement is looked with both inside and outer risks. Now and again, these risks include perceptible misfortunes that could deny a profit-production company from making due in the market if viable management isn't set up. Thinking about the expanding in risks in organizations, overseeing risk involves need. Risk management is the complete procedure of identifying, controlling and limiting the impact of unsure occasions. This days, businesses put extraordinary accentuation on risk organization as this decides their survival and business performance. Insurance companies are in the risk business and all things considered spread different sorts of risks for people, businesses and companies. It is subsequently, essential that insurance companies deal with their risk introduction and lead appropriate investigation to maintain a strategic distance from misfortunes because of the pay claims made by the protected. Notwithstanding, Kadi (2003) expressed that "most insurance companies spread insurable risks without completing legitimate examination of the normal claims from customers and without setting up a system of identifying proper risk decrease techniques". subsequently poor financial performance (Magezi, 2003). Risk management exercises are influenced by the risk conduct of directors. A vigorous peril organization system can assist organizations with reducing their introduction to risks, and improve their financial performance.

BACKGROUND

Insurance companies are in the business of going out on a limb. Worldwide these companies compose strategies that manage explicit risks, and much of the time, even guarantee fascinating risks. As an immediate end product, accordingly, insurance companies ought to be great at dealing with their very own risks. Anyway the fact of the matter is somewhat a long way from that! Most insurance companies are truly adept at assessing insurance risks however are not truly adept at setting up structures in their own home to deal with their very own working and business risks. As a rising need from the credit emergency, IRDA issued a lot of rules on corporate administration in 2010,1 which contained a reference to the setting up of a required risk management board of trustees (RMC). The RMC needs to set out a risk management technique crosswise over different lines of business, and the working head must has direct access to the Board. Be that as it may, IRDA left it to the companies to work out the subtleties of how risk management capacities were to be appropriately composed by them given the size, nature, and intricacy of their business. In any case, that ought to not the slightest bit undermine the employable autonomy of the risk management head. As a result of this breathing space, the greater part of the Indian insurance companies have given risk management duties to one of the statisticians, which is anything but a solid push toward autonomy. Today it is all around perceived that sound management of an insurer, with respect to other financial sector substances, is subject to how well the different risks are overseen over the association. In this article I have depicted how preferably should insurance companies deal with their different risks.

RISK FRAMEWORK

A decent risk system ought to have a solid administration structure with the goal that the board and the management should realize how risks are being overseen. This includes selecting a chief risk officer (CRO) for risk management and the hierarchical culture also should bolster it. In vast companies, usually to shape a different risk management unit, staffed by a multi-disciplinary

offices, for example, underwriting, legal/compliance, actuarial, finance, marketing and sales, policy servicing, claims, IT, etc. The management ought to dependably know about the perils of undermining the autonomy of the office and ought to guarantee that the risk-going for broke monitoring jobs are autonomous. To guarantee this, there are a couple of surely understood structures accessible, for example, ISO 31000 risk management standard and the COSO ERM.. There is another structure utilized by S&P and A&M Best in their evaluations also. A CRO ought to guarantee that risk management in the association is incorporated instead of being completed from storehouses. He ought to practically answer to somebody like the risk and review panel while authoritatively he could answer to a CxO, for example, the chief financial officer (CFO). This gives the CRO the autonomy and capacity to make intense inquiries to the best management. Basically, there are a few decisions on where the CRO ought to be set in the association.

RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS

Risk Management proposes a plan for an association that enables future action to occur in an enduring and controlled way. The advantages of risk management process is :- • Improving decision making, planning and prioritization • more productive use/assignment of capital and assets • Reducing unpredictability in the unimportant zones of the business • Protecting and improving assets and company picture • Developing and supporting people and the association's information base • Optimizing operational productivity The most essential advance in risk management is risk evaluation as referenced in part 2. Risk appraisal is a procedure of estimation including the acknowledgment of the vulnerabilities, their likelihood of event and seriousness of misfortune. Insurance industry is sharp in identifying the risks relating to their business. The property, intrusion and obligation related risks are acutely taken a gander at by the insurers. The risk management administrations like underwriting investigations or post misfortune examinations for settlement claims Loss Prevention Association of India (LPA), Tariff Advisory Committee (TAC) was benefited by the insurers notwithstanding the in-house administrations of individual companies. After the disintegration of Loss counteractive action Association of India and re-imagined jobs of Tariff Advisory Committee, the companies began searching for particular risk management administrations from private sector. The de-tariffication has required the utilization of risk benefits in the insurance companies, broking houses just as single substance ranches. Notwithstanding their utility for insurance underwriting business risk management (RM) consultancy administrations are considered as the esteem expansion to the customers of insurance companies. The approach of global companies and acknowledgment of significance of RM benefits by the customers have constrained insurance companies to bring the creative administrations of RM consultancy to the Indian markets.

RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

The primary focal point of risk management has principally been on controlling and for administrative compliance, rather than improving financial performance Banks. Be that as it may, this risk management frequently prompts upgraded financial performance as administrative compliance and control of risks empowers the association to save money on expenses. Banks further recommends that by overseeing risks, the directors can expand the estimation of the firm through guaranteeing proceeded with profitability of the firm. Standard and Poor's distinguishes poor liquidity management,under-estimating and under saving, a high resilience for speculation risk, management and administration issues, troubles identified with fast development or potentially venture into non-center exercises as fundamental driver of financial misery and disappointment in insurance companies. It is essential that these components be overseen productively by insurance companies, to maintain a strategic distance from financial disappointment and chapter 11 to the firm. In the 21st century has seen incredible endeavors to risk management. Babbel and Santomero note that insurers ought to evaluate the different kinds of risks they are presented to and devise methods for successfully overseeing them. They further recommend that insurers ought to acknowledge and oversee at firm dimension, just those risks that are extraordinarily a piece of their administrations. This will lessen the risk presentation. Risk management is a practical monetary motivation behind why firm directors, may worry about both the normal profit and

from risk. Legitimate risk management is critical in the every day activities of any insurance company to stay away from financial misfortunes and chapter 11. This is in accordance with Jolly commitment that avoiding misfortunes through prudent steps is a key component in lessening risks and therefore, a key driver of profitability. The effectiveness of risk management by insurance companies will by and large impact their financial performance. Gold , declares that insurance companies couldn't get by with expanded misfortune and cost proportions. In the interim, risk management has been connected with investor esteem expansion suggestion. A firm will possibly take part in risk management in the event that it upgrades investor esteem; Banks contributed that it is vital for each firm to hold and effectively deal with some dimension of risk on the off chance that it is to expand its market esteem or if the likelihood of financial misery is to be brought down; Pagano, affirms that risk management is an imperative capacity of insurance establishments in making an incentive for investors and clients. For the most part, company activities are inclined to risks and if the risks are 12not dealt with the company's financial performance will be in question. Firms with effective risk management structures beat their friends as they are very much arranged for periods after the event of the related risks. This examination wants to concoct a normal positive connection between risk management and performance of insurance companies. In the repercussions of worldwide financial emergency and corporate disappointments, element partners are requesting more noteworthy oversight of key risks confronting the endeavor to guarantee that partner esteem is saved and improved. One reaction to these developing desires is the rise of another worldview known as "Big business Risk Management" as an interior control system. In the meantime, organizations have been actualizing "Performance Measurement System" as one of management control systems imperative for corporate achievement. Thinking about the significance of these two control systems, the likelihood of consolidating ERM into the current performance estimation system should be investigated. It is normal that risk management will supplement performance estimation system by identifying and alleviating risks in accomplishing vital goals.

RISK MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Risk Appetite-

Risk appetite is the measure of risk that an association is set up to acknowledge, endure, or be presented to anytime. Risk appetite can give consistency in decision making.. It empowers people to go for broke when openings emerge that will improve conveyance, and on the other hand, to articulate their risk appetite as an impact on capital, with the goal that one can without much of a stretch comprehend and screen.

Risk Self-Assessments-

Risk evaluation is the fundamental unit of risk recognizable proof over the company and ordinarily ought to be performed by the offices themselves however encouraged and tested by the risk management people. A risk self-appraisal is an incredible asset and depends on the reason that the individuals who perform or encourage a procedure best know their risks. These activities can reveal rising risks. A risk evaluation practice finished with best management for articulating the real risks to the company is the element level risk appraisal. Such risk assessments should hurl the vital risks for the company in the close and long haul. Adequacy of substance level risk evaluation lies in observing whether there was a rising risk in the past that got the management unconscious.

Risk Registers-

The risk registers are the focal archive of risk data. They fundamentally store the risk and control data for a procedure, division, or element. Regularly, the risk registers contain the risk portrayal, risk class, risk proprietor, net risk measure, [severity (effect) and probability before controls], control subtleties, and quality of the controls (self surveyed just as evaluated by risk management), net risk measure, [severity (effect) and probability after controls], activity plans, and due dates to extend target risk as effect and probability. Control documentation, including start to finish process maps, key control sheets, and methodology manuals can be appended to the risk register. Utilization of hues can give the visual triggers with respect to the statuses – which of the risks need consideration. Yield from the Register can be utilized in quantitative risk investigation for saving reason, management data as Top risk report and an Internal Audit plan which can be halfway determined by the distinguishing proof of less solid controls inside the business.

Common Risk Language-

A common risk language shapes a vital piece of the general risk management structure. It empowers important correlations with be drawn between risk data given by the risk proprietors, which encourages a comprehension of the risks confronting the company. With a common risk language, the management, the risk proprietors, and intrigued partners would think that its simpler to completely comprehend or viably convey the risks that the gathering faces.

The subsequent stage in the risk management cycle is for the CRO to give adequate data to the partners about the status of risk management in the company. The contributions for a risk dashboard should originate from an assortment of sources—subjective just as quantitative, inner just as outside.

RISK MANAGEMENT FOR INSURERS

The Indian Insurance Industry has been seeing different changes, some of which are exceptionally noteworthy for the general advancement of a dynamic industry, as it exists somewhere else on the planet. The opening up of the industry, which was done as an outcome of the advancement and globalization process at some point prior, has been having its effect in transit the business is directed. A few all around eminent players have gone into tie up with Indian Companies for a productive union. This has prompted the rise of a lively market with the heretofore monopolistic open sector players joining the race with recharged enthusiasm. The industry is experiencing a truly testing period that has not been seen whenever before. This shows a testing market however a brilliant future for the insurance industry. The achievement of insurance companies will be estimated not simply as far as profits earned or rates of return, however similarly by the nature of corporate administration furthermore, risk management. The issue of corporate administration accept included criticalness in insurance record of the accompanying elements: (1) since huge open assets are included, there is a more noteworthy requirement for straightforwardness of financial management; (2) around the world, there is a move towards verifying severe adherence to elevated requirements of revelation and compliance; (3) generally acknowledged bookkeeping models are rising, forcing significant order among the players; and (4) activities, for example, estimating, risk management, marketing, venture decisions should be increasingly reasonable and open. Corporate Governance in financial Institutions especially in Insurance Companies assumes a most vital job in advancing and supporting the development, by securing the Policyholders and Shareholder's advantage. Insurance Companies assemble assets from the policyholders and contribute the equivalent for long haul skyline, which is brimming with a few sorts of risks. Along these lines, the essential target of management of an insurance company is to guarantee wellbeing, security and development of policyholder's store, and the essential target of Corporate Governance in an insurance company is to secure the policyholders against indebtedness by effective management of financial, bookkeeping and specialized capacities. Be that as it may, the financial management in an result of a wide scope of agreement residency reflected in a perplexing system of obligation. Along these lines, policyholder's security by giving enough dissolvability edges going up against the different kinds of operational risk especially in the region of finance and venture is the real worry for risk management. The real risks which should be tended to by an insurance company are fundamentally of two sorts, in particular specialized/insurance risk and venture risk.

CONCLUSION

Insurance companies can improve their risk management by executing structure based methodology and administration structure in the company with the goal that all risks are surveyed, comprehended and controlled. A Chief Risk Officer ought to have a perspective on every key risk in the company and ought to guarantee that management knows about condition of risks in the company and that every single key risk are controlled or estimated fittingly. Risk management is a principal business practice and, as per normal procedure, all insurance companies ought to formalize their inward risk management systems. It is likewise an advancing territory, which is yet to be completely created. Notwithstanding, endeavors can be made to set up the system now with the goal that insurers can oversee all the more adequately the risks to which they are uncovered. Further, the system could likewise be utilized in deciding the inner and administrative capital prerequisite for an insurer. Indeed, even without an administrative prerequisite, adequate motivating force should originate from the way that fantastic risk management systems can give a definitive upper hand.

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Corresponding Author Malvika Dhawan*

Research Scholar, OPJS University, Churu, Rajasthan