The motor insurance industry came into the limelight since the enforcement of mandatory motor insurance coverage in 1959. This paper uses a modelling technique to ascertain the various components that affect the change in premiums received by the entire industry, or a segment of it. These components were identified, expressions representing the actual growth of new premiums were derived and the parameters in the expressions were estimated. The expressions would be useful in forecasting the fu...

This paper attempts to provide a framework to look at the current ASEAN and lag relationship from year 1990 to 1992 between every stock market and ASEAN as a whole with major foreign markets especially those of stock markets, New York, Japanese, and Australian. The significant correlation coefficient with less than one shows that the diversification between some of these countries ASEAN can reduce the risk. This study shows that the reaction of market in absorbing the events from the develope...

Kajian ini cuba mengenalpasti sama ada terdapat asas untuk pelbagaian antarabangsa di kalangan pasaran saham rantau ASEAN. Untuk menikmati faedah pelbagaian serantau hubungan di antara pasaran-pasaran ini, yang diukur nelalui koefisien korelasi mestilah tidak bersifat positif sempurna dan agak stabil mengikut masa. Sungguhpun koefisien korelasi antara pasaran-pasaran ini menunjukkan terdapat asas untuk mencapai faedah pelbagaian, namun hubungannya tidaklah stabil yang memberi implikasi bahawa...

Ada tiga penyakit utama ekonomi secara makro untuk jangka pendek, yaitu inflasi, pengangguran dan defisit neraca pembayaran. Penyakit-penyakit tersebut perlu diobati secara seksama untuk mencapai tujuan ekonomi makro jangka panjang, yaitu pertumbuhan ekonomi (economic growth) yang diukur dengan Produk Domestik Bruto (PDB) dan distribusinya secara lebih merata (equity). Untuk mengobati penyakit-penyakit ekonomi tersebut, dikenal ada dua kebijaksanaan utama yaitu kebijaksanaan moneter (Monet...