Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British insurance. Volume 1, 1782-1870
Details:
- Author(s) Trebilcock, Clive
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1985
- Pages 792pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Securities investment practice & process
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly commissioned account of the history of a leading insurance business. Its chapters include: 'Fire insurance - preconditions for a market; 'The emergence of entrepreneurial principles'; 'The overseas dimensions', 1792-1830 - the pioneering of an invisible export'; 'The overseas dimensions, 1830-70 - competition and reinsurance'; 'A career in industry'; 'Competition and the control of aggression'; 'An entrepreneurial postscript - the quieter risks of the town'; 'Investment - fire funds and life funds'; 'Phoenix - a review of the personnel, 1830-70'; 'Aggregate results'; 'Towards the modern era'; 'The life business - Pelican, 1797-1870'. Deals at length with investment of fire and life funds [pp616-66]