Life Insurance Companies: Product Design, Marketing, and Investment (Gauss Prize Young Academics 2024)

Dr. Yusha Chen from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has been awarded one of this year's two GAUSS Prizes for Young Academics for her dissertation “Life Insurance Companies: Product Design, Marketing, and Investment.“ In her research, she analyzes key aspects of product design and capital investment for life insurance companies and provides valuable impetus for strategic corporate management. “The work consists of several papers already published in high-ranking journals,” explains the prize committee. “It impressively examines various innovative aspects of pension product design, from the inclusion of long-term care risk cover to the use of ESG investments and tontines instead of annuities.”