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    Baltic State Technical University

    International Business & Communication Institute

    Master of Business Administration & Engineering (MBAE)

    Project work

    THE INSURANCE MARKET. SPECIFIC

    CHARACTER OF ITS DEVELOPMENT IN

    RUSSIA

    Executed by Regina Mutovkina

    Checked: Loukitchev P. M.

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    Saint-Petersburg2008

    CONTENTS

    CONTENTS.....................................................................................................................................................................2

    INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................................................................2

    THEORY.........................................................................................................................................................................4

    THEBASICDEFINITIONS......................................................................................................................................................4THEKINDSOFTHEINSURANCEMARKETS.................................................................................................................................5ANECONOMICNATUREANDFUNCTIONSOFINSURANCE...............................................................................................................6

    THE KINDS OF INSURANCE SERVICES ON AN EXAMPLE OF AN OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ROSNO

    ......................................................................................................................................................................................11

    MODERN TENDENCIES ON THE INSURANCE MARKET OF RUSSIA.............................................................. ......14

    CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................................................22

    LITERATURE................................................................................................................................................................24

    INTRODUCTION

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    THEORY

    The basic definitions

    The modern market economy represents a difficult organism consisting of the

    huge amount of various industrial, commercial, financial and information

    structures, cooperating on the system of rules and law of business, and united by

    the common concept - the market.

    Insurance is a system of economic relations on the protection of the property

    interests of physical and corporate persons in approaching of the certain events

    (insured accident) due to money resources (insurance funds) formed from the

    insurance premiums paid by them by payment of the insurance compensation.

    An interaction of sides interested in the signing of insurance agreements and

    achievement of the productivity of insurance operations takes place on the

    insurance market. The insurance market is the system of economic relations

    making a field of activity of insurers and reinsures in the given country, group of

    the countries and on an international scale on the rendering the appropriate

    insurance services to insurants.

    Insurants are the corporate persons and the capable physical persons who

    have an insurance interest and started relations with the insurer by the law or on

    the basis of the bilateral agreement, validated by the insurance contract.

    Insurers are the corporate persons of any organization form determined by

    Russian Federation, created for realization of the insurance activity (insurance

    organizations and the societies of a mutual insurance) and received the state

    sanction (license) to the realization of operations of insurance. A subject of a direct

    activity of insurers can not be industrial, trading - intermediary and bank activity.

    An economic essence of insurance consists in the formation by the insurer of

    the insurance fund due to insurance fees of the insurants, intended for the insurance

    payments to insurants at approaching of the insured accidents fixed in the contract.

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    An economic nature and functions of insurance

    Insurance is a way of compensation for the losses of physical or corporate

    person, by the distribution of these losses between many persons (insurance

    totality). The compensation of losses is made from means of the insurance fund

    which is under the jurisdiction of the insurance organization (insurer). The

    objective need for insurance is caused by the thing that losses sometimes appear

    because of the destructive factors, absolutely not under control of people (natural

    cataclysms), and do not attract someone's civil-law responsibility. In a similar

    situation it happens that it is impossible to understand who is an initiator of

    damages, so the victim should pay for it him/herself. Beforehand created insurancefund can be a source of compensation of damages. Insurance is expedient only

    when the insurance events (risks) cause significant need for money. So, for

    example, the physical person who has this requirement, as a rule, can not cover it

    using his own means without serious limitation of his standard of life.

    The insurance relations, fixed in the written contract of insurance as the civil-

    law deal, are known, at least, from late Middle Ages. At that time due to the great

    geographical opening the horizons of sea international trade were appreciably

    enlarged. Businessmen needed big capitals to use new horizons of the opened

    opportunities.

    Historically appeared because of the necessity to provide compensation of

    losses which are not subject to put on other persons, insurance had essential

    changes during its long development and is extended now on many cases when

    losses are connected to the civil-law responsibility of their initiator. In such cases

    insurance serves for the victim as an additional guarantee of protection of his

    property interests. Further alongside with the property insurance providing the

    compensations, connected to loss or damage of material benefits, the personal

    insurance, guaranteeing payments of certain sums of money because of death,

    mutilation, illness, living up to the certain age of the person, appeared.

    As an economic category insurance represents the system of economic

    relations including the totality of forms and methods of formation of trust funds of

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    productivity according to the personal contribution to the manufacture and

    maintenance of his own well-being.

    It is known that the essence of the finance as an economic category is

    connected with economic relations during creation and use of the funds of money

    resources. The essence of insurance is also connected to the creation and use of

    funds of money resources. If finances always need monetary relations and forming

    of funds of money resources, insurance can also be natural. A mutual insurance is a

    classical example of it.

    Besides, insurance always needs the opportunity of happening of an

    insurance case, i.e. the obligatory attribute is inherent in insurance probabilistic

    character of relations. The use of means of the insurance fund is connected to the

    approach and consequences of insurance cases.

    There is one feature of insurance that makes it similar to credit: a recurrence

    of means of the insurance fund. It is credit that provides a recurrence of the

    received monetary loan. However, marking such recurrence of insurance payments

    a characteristic feature of insurance, it is necessary to understand that it refers first

    of all to the life insurance. The most part of payments (net - payments) comes back

    at approach of an insurance accident (living of insured person up to the certain

    time or in case of his death). This return of payments has a necessary character.

    But in the case of property insurance, at insurance from casualties and at many

    other kinds of insurance the payments of insurance compensation happens only at

    approaching of an insurance accident and in the sizes defined by the appropriate

    documents. At the payments of insurance compensation on property or others

    kinds of risk an address of these sums is lost. An economic substance of these

    payments differs from the returns of insurance payments.

    The functions of insurance and its substance as an economic category are

    connected. It is possible to allocate the following functions of an economic

    category of insurance:

    1. Forming of the specialized insurance fund of money resources.

    2. Compensation of damage and personal material security of citizens.

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    3. Prevention of an insurance accident and minimization of damage.

    The first function is a forming of the specialized insurance fund of money

    resources as payments for risks that the insurance companies take on their

    responsibility. This fund can be formed both in obligatory, and in the voluntary

    orders. The government, proceeding from economic and social conditions,

    regulates development of insurance market in the country. This function is realized

    in the system of the spare and reserve funds providing stability of insurance,

    guarantee of payments and compensations. If in commercial banks an

    accumulation of money of the population with the purpose, for example, of

    monetary savings, has only saving beginning, insurance because of this function

    has a saving-risk beginning. In the moral plan each participant of insurance

    process, for example, at life insurance, is sure in getting monetary compensation at

    the case of unfortunate event and at end of the validity of the contract. At the

    property insurance through this function not only the problem of compensation of

    costs of the suffered property is solved within the limits of the insurance sums and

    the conditions in the contract, but also the conditions for material compensation of

    a part or full cost of suffered property are created. Through this function the

    problem of investments of temporarily free means in banks and other commercial

    structures, investments of money resources in the real estate, purchases of

    securities etc is solved. With the development of the market the mechanism of use

    of the temporarily free means will be improved and extend in insurance. The value

    of the function of insurance as forming of special insurance funds will grow.

    The second function of insurance - compensation of damage and personal

    material providing of citizens. Only physical and corporate people who are the

    participants of forming of the insurance fund have the right on the compensation of

    damage in property. The order of compensation of damage is defined by the

    insurance companies, proceeding from the conditions of contracts of insurance,

    and is regulate by the government (licensing of the insurance activity).

    The Third function of insurance - the prevention of an insurance accident and

    minimization of damage - assumes a wide complex of measures, including

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    THE KINDS OF INSURANCE SERVICES ON AN EXAMPLE OF

    AN OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ROSNO

    OJSC Rosno was created in 1991 and is one of the largest Russian

    universal insurance companies. At the order of its clients there are more than 100

    insurance products. Regional network of Rosno consists of100 branches united

    at the territorial features in 10 managements and 300 agencies in all subjects of the

    Russian Federation. More than 15 million person and over 50 thousand enterprises

    and organizations have insurance policies and contracts of this company.

    Company Rosno is:

    - On 4-th place in the rating of the largest insurers of property

    - On 4-th place in the rating of the largest retail insurance companies

    - On 3-d place in the rating of the largest companies on insurance from accidents

    and illnesses

    - On 4-th place in the rating of the largest insurers of people leaving abroad

    - On 3-d place in the rating of the largest companies on medical insurance

    - On 4-th place in the rating of the largest autoinsurers of corporate people

    In 2007 Rosno received a rank Insurance company of the year in the

    annual competition made by a business weekly journal "Company" on the basis of

    the analysis of events on the various markets.

    Thus, all tendencies in the insurance market of Russia are reflected at the

    work of the company Rosno, therefore, looking at its insurance products, it is

    possible to say, that it concerns to the whole market. Today the company Rosno

    offers 9 kinds of insurance for private persons and 8 kinds for corporate clients.

    For private persons

    1. Autoinsurance is a full package of programs of insurance protection of the

    automobile. There are programs MTPL insurance (in Russia OSAGO),

    CASCO, complex insurance of the automobiles bought in the salon and/or on

    credit, a technical help and evacuation of the automobile in the case of breakage,

    arrival of the breakdown commissioner, insurance of passengers and driver.

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    2. Insurance of property: insurance of cottages, country houses and buildings on

    the personal garden-plots, apartments (constant, for the period of holiday, the

    program of insurance of loss of the property rights to the apartment, and a joint

    program Rosnoand the governments of Moscow).

    3. Medical insurance. Of course there are programs of Necessary Medical

    Insurance (NMI) and Voluntary Medical Insurance (VMI) and also policies for

    future mums and family medicine - offering a family doctor.

    4. Insurance in tourism. There are such directions as: insurance of the citizens

    leaving abroad, and travelers on Russia and the CIS; insurance of medical and

    medical-transport costs, insurance from accident; insurance of lovers of a scuba

    diving and winter kinds of sports, and also an insurance of the automobile-civil

    liability for leaving abroad on their own automobiles.

    5. Hypothec insurance: of life and ability to work of the borrower (at the situation

    as a result of which the borrower can not extinguish the received credit), insurance

    of the apartment/building that is going to be bought in the case of damage or loss,

    and an insurance in the case of loss of the property right to the object of the real

    estate.

    6. Insurance from accident: insurance of all family from illnesses and accidents,

    and an insurance of the driver and passengers.

    7. Life insurance - one of the most popular insurance services in the foreign

    markets, but in Russia it only develops. The company offers insurance with

    accumulation, for the benefit of children for forming the guaranteed savings till

    majority, the graduation of university or wedding, risk-life-insurance for the

    protection of family in the case of loss of husband or his disability, and also a

    pension-life-insurance which guarantees payments of the lifelong pension.

    8. Insurance of the responsibility to the third parties, including full insurance of the

    tenant.

    9. And also an insurance of animals. Voluntary insurance of animals, and

    insurance of the responsibility of their owners.

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    For corporate clients

    Insurance of the enterprises is one of the basic directions of work of the

    company Rosno. For today the company gives a wide choice of services, satisfying

    practically all needs of corporate clients.

    1. Insurance of employees: VMI and from accidents on manufacture.

    2. Insurance of transport.

    - Insurance of motor transport

    - Insurance of railway vehicles

    - Insurance from the civil liability of carriers

    - Insurance of sea and aerospace risks

    - Insurance of cargoes, goods and containers

    3. Property insurance: from fire and other dangers, losses from break in

    manufacture, machinery and equipment from breakages, construction risks.

    4. Insurance of the responsibility:

    - of the civil liability (usual enterprises and enterprises of the high danger; owner

    of the property right to objects of the intellectual property)

    - professional responsibility

    - for the harm because of the lacks of goods

    - clinical researches of medical products

    - hotels

    - civil liability - of risks of the financial organizations

    - liabilities on the state contract

    5. Insurance of the show business: property, civil liability and financial risks.

    6. Reinsurance by the international companies.

    Thus, on the example of Rosno it is visible, that for today in the insurance

    market there is a huge amount of supplies covering all spheres of human life.

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    MODERN TENDENCIES ON THE INSURANCE MARKET OF

    RUSSIA

    Today insurance market quickly develops so the huge amount of famous and

    respected agencies and magazines are engaged in its research.

    The National Agency of Financial Researches (NAFR) made several

    researches of consumers of the insurance services in Russia. Now I will show

    some tendencies that we can see from the researches.

    The level of use of the insurance services in Russia:

    In this research it was found out that in the period 2005-2007 the quantity of

    Russians who use one or other services of insurance increased from 37% up to

    46% - it is almost each second Russian.

    From the point of view of geography of users of the insurance services,

    serious changes in comparison with the two years old situation were not observed.

    The greatest quantity of users of the insurance services is in the cities with apopulation more than 1 million and cities with the population from 100 up to 500

    thousand people. The types of settlements in which a quantity of users is small are

    the settlements of a city type (36 %) and cities with a population less than 50

    thousand people (39 %). On the basis of the revealed tendencies it is possible to

    make a conclusion about the perspectives of the further development of the market

    of insurance services due to the potential of the Russian regions.

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    The use of the insurance services in different types of settlements in 2007:

    41%54%

    45%53% 47%

    39% 36%47%

    53%42%

    53%42% 51%

    60% 60%51%

    6% 4% 3% 4% 1% 1% 3% 2%

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    10%

    20%

    30%

    40%

    50%

    60%

    70%

    80%

    90%

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    I use I don't use I am not sure about the answer

    A certain dynamic was observed in the structure of the kinds of insurance

    used by Russians. In particular, the quantity of Russians who answered that they

    used the services of insurance of the automobile from stealing and damage

    (CASCO) increased almost twice for these two years - from 3.4 % up to 6 %. The

    quantity of people who said that they insured their property increased from 7,8 %

    in 2005 up to 9 % in 2007, and also the amount of respondents who bought paid

    AMI grew from less than 11 % up to more than 18 %). 13 % of the respondents

    use two kinds of services and for about 5 % use tree or more.

    The use of different kinds of the insurance services in 2005 and 2007:

    Kind of insurance Respondents,

    2005,%

    Respondents,

    2007,%MTPL insurance 20,2 % 19,6 %

    Insurance of property 7,8 % 9,2 %

    VMI 10,9 % 18,1 %

    Insurance of children 3,6 % 3,3 %

    Insurance from accidents 3,2 % 2,8 %

    AutoCasco 3,4 % 5,5 %Insurance in trips 2,8 % 4,4 %

    Insurance of own life 1,9 % 2,2 %

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    Insurance of the responsibility for causing

    damage to somebody

    0,3 % 0,1 %

    Another 1,3 % 0,9 %

    I do not use any insurance services 61,1 % 50,7 %

    I an not sure about the answer 1,6 % 3,0 %

    On the voluntary medical insurance we can see changes in the structure of

    consumers. If in 2005 among users of VMI there were 47 % of men and 53 % of

    women, in 2007 the share of men decreased to 43 %, and the share of women

    increased up to 57 %. The age structure of users of VMIchanged in the side of

    reduction of insurants in the age group from 35 till 59 years: in 2007 in this age

    group there were 40 % of users (against approximately 50% in 2005), and the

    number of young users, on the contrary, increased. It means that the youth in the

    last years started to realize better the advantages from using the given kind of

    insurance, and at the same time, young people have more opportunities of

    purchasing the policy VMI nowadays.

    The structure of the owners of the policies of VMI according to age:

    16,50%

    19%

    22,50%

    27%

    15%

    22%23%

    21% 19%

    15%

    0,00%

    5,00%

    10,00%

    15,00%

    20,00%

    25,00%

    30,00%

    18-24

    years

    25-34

    years

    35-44

    years

    45-59

    years

    60 and

    more

    2005 2007

    The portrait of the typical user of AutoCasco also changed. In 2005 the

    serious part of clients of the insurance companies on AutoCascowas represented

    by men in the age from 25 till 34 years (31 %). In 2007 among all respondents

    bought policies AutoCasco there are 57 % of men and 43 % of women, thus

    among men the big share of insurants Casco is in the age group 25-34 years (34

    %), and among women - 35-34 years (29 %). As a whole, for the two years the

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    audience became considerably younger: the number of users in the age from 18 till

    34 years increased and the clients of AutoCascoolder than 35 years decreased.

    The structure of the owners of the policies of AutoCasco according to age:

    15,00%

    24%

    24,00%

    26%

    11%

    16%

    31%

    26%

    24%

    3%

    0,00% 5,00% 10,00% 15,00% 20,00% 25,00% 30,00% 35,00%

    18-24 years

    25-34 years

    35-44 years

    45-59 years

    60 and more

    2005 2007

    In May 2007 the company Romir made the sociological research

    concerning the opinion of Russians about insurance services. Its results allow

    noting a number of positive tendencies in the sphere of insurance, an improvement

    of the attitude of the population to the insurance and a perfection of the system of

    researches of the insurance market.

    The research of Romir about an insurance market was made in all

    federal districts of Russia. 1584 people were interrogated in the age from 18 years

    and older. During this research sociologists found out, how many Russians use

    insurance services, what services are most popular among them, how they find out

    about existence of the insurance companies, by what criteria choose among them,

    and what influences on the decision making about using or not using of the

    insurance services.

    If to look at the amount of people using insurance services, opinions of two

    researchers differ a little: on the data of NAFR it is 52 %, and by the results of

    Romir- 61 %. Probably, it is connected with the fact that these researches were

    made with a difference per half-year - in December and May 2007.

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    The sociologists asked the respondents the following question: What

    prevents you to use the services of the insurance companies more actively? The

    answers were in such a way:

    18

    35

    5

    8

    30

    9

    4

    3

    2

    1

    42

    21

    21

    15

    10

    4

    3

    2

    1

    0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45

    I don't believe in insurance

    Insurance services are too expensive

    In the near future I will not need it

    I don't understand how the system of

    insurance works

    Nothing prevents, we use it

    Lack of information about supplies

    Unsatisfactory level of service

    I am not satisfied in the set of services

    Uncomfortable disposition of the offices of

    insurance companies

    Uncomfortable business hours of theinsurance companies

    I use I don't use

    As we can see from the given diagram, a per cent of those who does not

    believe in insurance is much higher among people who do not use these services

    (42 %). 35 % of people who use insurance services and 21 % among those who

    does not use complain on the expensive services of the insurance companies. For21 % of non-users one of the main reasons of absence of interest to services of

    the insurance companies is that they think in the nearest future they will not need

    it. 15% of users badly understand how the system of insurance works and 8 % of

    citizens do not use insurance services exactly because of it. Almost equal quantity

    of users and non-users (9 % and 10 %) speak about a lack of the information about

    services and supplies. Nevertheless, almost third (30 %) interrogated users do not

    complain on anything and actively use the services of insurance companies.

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    As a whole the results of this research showed an injustice of opinion of some

    experts about a scornful or really negative attitude of Russians to insurance, it is

    also not necessary to speak about a zero insurance culture or a financial

    illiteracy. It is just because Russians dont have enough experience of working

    with the insurance companies and using of insurance products. Before western

    people started to use insurance actively it was need to pass corresponding laws and

    achieve a high level of incomes of citizens. Five years ago an average salary in our

    country was less than 100 dollars, and 80 % of the population had incomes less

    than 4000 rubles per one month on each member of family, so they were really

    poor. Today average wages in the country are about 500 dollars. And about 50% of

    Russians have incomes more than 8000 rubles per month on the person (300

    dollars) and they are not considered poor any more. And only at that time people

    can start thinking insurance when they have enough money for it.

    The key factor for people to look at insurance is a level of their income, as, in

    general, at many other products too. Even if in the most general case to break

    consumers in 2 groups, for example, with the income on 1 person in family of 300-

    500 dollars, and with the income 600-1000 and to look how the level of insurance

    activity will differ on the different directions we will see amazing results. When a

    person comes from one group to another we can see a serious change in his interest

    to insurance: if he becomes richer he will use insurance services but if he becomes

    poorer he stop using. The task of the insurer is to understand for what group its

    product is accessible, then to reveal, what needs it has, and then to operate looking

    at the scheme of classical marketing.

    Of course a lot of things will depend on the insurance companies, how they

    work for increasing of understanding and clearness of the market, for attraction and

    training of the consumers. They should explain the their group of consumers what

    an insurance product is, that the benefit of it is not only instant, but even does not

    concern to the products with average time horizon. For understanding of the

    advantages of an insurance product many years should pass - sometimes 10-15

    years and more. People will understand all benefits of insurance only when a lot of

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    them will try it. Their friend will like it and tell about it to them. Then these people

    will tell another people about advantages and so on. It is not necessary to try the

    service yourself - it just several big groups of people should try and after that all

    the other people will do the same. Insurance is not a simple product, not an object

    of an impulsive purchase; the consumer should become competent and understand

    what conditions he buys. All this things mean the serious requirements of quality

    of work of insurers on the promotion of the services. Today we can say that only

    autoinsurance is a really successful sphere, and for example, on the insurance of

    the real estate there are no such efforts for promotion so the results are not

    satisfactory: only 1% of the real estate is insured. Insurers will be able to raise an

    amount of insured things only when they will be fair with consumers and will

    understand them and to offer them really those insurance products in which they

    require and with the fair price.

    Nowadays we cam see an arrival of the foreign insurance companies in Russia

    and they have several advantages. They exist tens or sometimes hundreds years,

    their reserves are really huge, reliable and dont depend on the fluctuations of a

    political climate in Russia. These are factors on which people pay a lot of attention

    and the Russian companies because of an absence of some of these factors are not

    so popular and people dont trust them so strongly.

    On the 15 of February 2008 there was the VIII-th congress of the Russian

    Union of Insurers. The results of work were discussed and an analysis of the

    development of the insurance market of Russia was made.

    The main parameters of the insurance market of Russia in billions rub:

    Parameters 2007 2006 2005

    Insurance earnings 763,6 610 491Rate of growth, % 25,1% 25.8% 4%

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    Insurance payments 473,8 353 274

    Rate of growth, % 34.2% 28.9% 27.9%

    The amount of the insurance

    companies in the state register

    857

    (on 1.01.2008)918 1075

    Insurance earnings increased for 2 years on 270 billion rubles, and insurance

    payments on 200 billion rubles. It speaks about the increased trust of the

    consumers because they can see that the companies redeem their obligations on

    payments. A reduction of number of the insurance companies is caused by several

    factors: for 2 years there were several big fusions in the market, both among the

    small companies, and among large ones (for example, Rosnoand Medexpress); the

    unreliable companies in connection with the competition had to leave from the

    insurance market. Thus, the basic parameters show the positive tendencies.

    Magazine Expert also made its own researches. In one of its articles there

    was a comparison of the Russian and British insurance markets. The conclusions

    made by magazine, show, how our insurance behinds from European, even

    including all positive tendencies. It was said that in Russia it is possible to insure

    for and from everything: on the case of time disability, hospitalization, operation,

    full disability, death, and also on the case of the diagnosis of critical disease. But if

    to look at this question with all validity it is necessary to notice that, for example,

    on the case of disability in Russia there are no programs similar to British. If to

    reject state obligatory social and medical insurance, giving minimal

    compensation payments in the case of disability, there will be rather limited

    choice of voluntary variants: in most cases medical insurance will refund expenses

    on medical treatment and recovery of the lost health; insurance from accidents and

    illnesses that usually provides single payment on the fact of disability (depending

    on the degree of the received traumas) or the diagnosis of critical disease (that is

    determined in the contract of insurance). In the minimal variant Russian insurers

    protection using long-term life insurance assumes liberation from the further

    payments in the case of an establishment to the insurant of non-working group of

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    physical inability. Rather seldom there are programs that allow providing

    payments as the rent on the case of constant invalidity. However, it is possible to

    hope, that we will soon become nearer to Europe. Insurance company Standard-

    reserve confirmed, that it develops offers for the long-term insurance of the work

    capacity, and another organization Rosno prepares to offer its clients the

    program of insurance of work capacity with the long term fixed payments (till the

    day of stopping the physical inability diagnosis).

    CONCLUSION

    On the market of insurance services of Russia we can see the positive

    tendencies for many parameters.

    In the period of 2005-2007 the amount of users of insurance services

    increased on 10% and started to make 46.3%. If to look on the geographical

    division it is possible to notice that at present most of all people who have

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    insurance policies live in cities with 1 million citizensand also from 100 up to 500

    thousand citizens. In villages there are on 6 % more insured people than in

    Moscow and Saint-Petersburg and it speaks about the distribution of trust and

    popularity of insurance out of big cities.

    The amount of users of VMI grew for 2 years on 10%, and a reduction of

    clients in the age of 45-59 years was accompanied by increasing of young buyers

    of insurance services (18-24 years). It means that young people began to think

    more seriously about insurance.

    One of the most popular kinds of insurance for today is a various insurance of

    automobiles. Among buyers of CASCO the share of young people (18-34 years)

    considerably increased. First of all it speaks about the growth of well-being of

    citizens.

    Looking at those who are not clients of the insurance companies the biggest

    part consists of people who do not trust in insurance or consider that in the near

    future it will not be required to them. It means that any essential negative moments

    of insurance in the eyes of consumers do not exist.

    The Data of the Russian Union of Insurers also show that the amount

    of insurance payments grew on 270 billion rubles that speaks about an increasing

    of trust to the insurance companies from the population though it is impossible to

    forget that some kinds of insurance are simply made obligatory for all nowadays.

    Thus, on the Russian market the growth of trust of the population, increasing

    of insurance payments and the shift aside younger clients is observed.

    But at the same time, the analysis of magazine Expert shows that the

    Russian companies are still far from the western competitors looking at the quality

    though in this area some improvement is observed.

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    LITERATURE

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    3. www.insur-info.ru

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    4. www.rosno.ru

    5. www.insurance.ru

    6. www.expert.ru

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