Investment Activities of Insurance Companies in the Economic Crisis

Abstract

This article deals with the investment activity of insurance companies in the period of economic crisis. The principal aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of economic crises on investment activity of commercial insurance companies. Firstly, we briefly identify the terminvestment activity of insurance companies. After that, we evaluate the development of investment activity of commercial insurance companies on Slovak, Czech, Austrian and Polish insurance market in the period of 2008-2011. Within the investment activity of commercial insurance companies we focus on the volume of investments and its structure. On the basis of discovered data, we state the possible impacts of economic crisis on the investment activity of commercial insurance companies.