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Product Insurance Market Reports Life Rev Argentina

Key Highlights

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  • Key insights and explanations of market developments in life insurance, healthcare and pensions
  • Details Argentina's insurance, social security, pensions and healthcare regulatory framework and company and personal tax considerations
  • Current legislation and upcoming changes
  • The latest developments in Argentina's economic and political environment
  • Demographic information
  • Market statistics and company performance

Report Overview

Independent strategic insight, line of business detail, regulatory information & market data for the non-life (P&C) insurance market of Argentina

The Argentina life and benefits market report provides a comprehensive, impartial analysis of the life insurance market of Argentina.  Information extends to extensive detail on healthcare (public and private), pensions and benefits, and social security. Specialist researchers visit Argentina and interview local professionals working across the local market. The report is updated with new information and data regularly throughout the cycle of country visits.

The report provides information about Argentina’s demographic profile and assesses its economic, political, climate, operational, and security risks. Key data on the investment environment in Argentina is available.

Axco’s report describes the regulatory framework that applies to the Argentina domestic life insurance sector, including whether non-admitted insurance is permitted in Argentina; as well as the legislation necessary to know regarding Argentina’s healthcare, pensions and social security.

Statistics include five years of life insurance market performance indicators, including gross written premiums, premium growth and penetration rates. Company statistics show who are the leading life insurance companies in Argentina with local life insurance company premiums, market share and year on year growth.

Life Insurance

Axco provides details on the life insurance sector including Argentina market participants, reinsurance and distribution channels. The reports describe classes of business from both individual and group life such as whole life, endowment, term life and unit-linked.
Information on non-life classes for example critical illness and private medical insurance.

Healthcare

The report describes the public and private healthcare system in Argentina, the scope of cover, accessibility financing and provides an analysis of how the public and private systems complement each other.

Pensions

Axco reports on the three pillars of Argentinian pension provision.

  • State pension benefits including benefit calculations and eligibility criteria 
  • Workplace pension provision; types of schemes calculations eligibility and; tax implications
  • Voluntary individual pension provision, type of products and tax implications

Social Security

The Argentina report provides an in-depth analysis of the regulatory framework governing social security as well as details on financing and eligibility. Information includes but is not limited to

  • state pensions,
  • permanent disability benefit
  • occupational accident and disease
  • maternity and paternity payments 

Argentina Life and Benefits Report Extract

Below are brief extracts of information from the Argentina Life & Benefits Report; more updated information may be available in the latest published report.

Life Insurance

Summary and Trends

The Argentine insurance market is predominantly non-life-oriented; the proportion of life business including burial and pension business has shown a tendency to decline in recent years, in 2019 representing just 13.76% of total premium income. Life insurance penetration rates remain low partly due to the absence of an insurance culture amongst consumers, but also the consequence of an erratic economic performance that has eroded the attractiveness of long-term saving. In 2019, life insurance premiums totalled ARS 61,652.62mn.

Pensions

Summary and Trends

In Argentina mandatory social security contributions provide a state-sponsored retirement pension benefit for all employees. Alternative privately-funded company pension plans have little impact in the market and are not widespread.

Demographic trends linked to increased life expectancy have resulted in the state pension system becoming seriously underfunded so that benefits are generally considered to be low. Despite this the government is well aware of the political importance attached to social security, and benefit levels are regularly revised and fairly wide ranging ....

Healthcare

Healthcare provision in Argentina is considered to be segmented, highly fragmented and lacking integration amongst the various subsectors. The healthcare delivery model consists of public sector services, social insurance trusts (obras sociales), charitable institutions and the private sector. Around 54% of the population are covered by the obras sociales whose plans cater for employees in the public and private sector, and their families. In mid-2020 there were some 300 obras sociales of differing scope and size.

Private healthcare provision includes voluntary health insurance plans ....

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