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Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli

Insurance is a contract where an individual is entitled to receives financial protection against losses from the insurance company. Meanwhile, takaful is a repayment in case of loss which organized according to the Islamic and shariah compliant. However, in order to gain the financial protection, th...

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Main Author: Zulkifli, Sazul Farrah Najwa
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Insurance
Insurance business. Insurance management
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63758/2/63758.pdf
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spelling my.uitm.ir.637582022-08-24T06:36:51Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63758/ Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli Zulkifli, Sazul Farrah Najwa Insurance Insurance business. Insurance management Insurance is a contract where an individual is entitled to receives financial protection against losses from the insurance company. Meanwhile, takaful is a repayment in case of loss which organized according to the Islamic and shariah compliant. However, in order to gain the financial protection, there are several obligations and policy that need to be followed such as payment of the premium from the individual. This aim of this research is to examine the performance of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia with the independent variables which is liquidity of firm, equity return, leverage, size of firm, underwriting risk, gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation rate. Every investor takes seriously towards the return on asset (ROA) as it can show how well a company can manage its business. By looking through the return on asset (ROA) of a company, investor can determine the ability the firm's ability to generate, sustain and increase their profits. According to Diane (2005), higher ROA value indicates a better company performance because of the high return on investment. A study by Abduh (2012), the ROA of takaful industry in Malaysia is low because takaful companies have limited places to invest as they are only allowed to invest with the business in accordance with the shariah instruments. Additional research is necessary to test the relationship between the internal factors (liquidity, equity return, leverage, size of firm and underwriting risk) and external factors (gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation rate) with the performance of insurance and Takaful companies. iii 2021 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63758/2/63758.pdf Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli. (2021) Degree thesis, thesis, UiTM Cawangan Johor.
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topic Insurance
Insurance business. Insurance management
spellingShingle Insurance
Insurance business. Insurance management
Zulkifli, Sazul Farrah Najwa
Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli
description Insurance is a contract where an individual is entitled to receives financial protection against losses from the insurance company. Meanwhile, takaful is a repayment in case of loss which organized according to the Islamic and shariah compliant. However, in order to gain the financial protection, there are several obligations and policy that need to be followed such as payment of the premium from the individual. This aim of this research is to examine the performance of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia with the independent variables which is liquidity of firm, equity return, leverage, size of firm, underwriting risk, gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation rate. Every investor takes seriously towards the return on asset (ROA) as it can show how well a company can manage its business. By looking through the return on asset (ROA) of a company, investor can determine the ability the firm's ability to generate, sustain and increase their profits. According to Diane (2005), higher ROA value indicates a better company performance because of the high return on investment. A study by Abduh (2012), the ROA of takaful industry in Malaysia is low because takaful companies have limited places to invest as they are only allowed to invest with the business in accordance with the shariah instruments. Additional research is necessary to test the relationship between the internal factors (liquidity, equity return, leverage, size of firm and underwriting risk) and external factors (gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation rate) with the performance of insurance and Takaful companies. iii
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title Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli
title_short Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli
title_full Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli
title_fullStr Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli
title_full_unstemmed Measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in Malaysia / Sazul Farrah Najwa Zulkifli
title_sort measuring sustainability performance: the case of insurance and takaful companies in malaysia / sazul farrah najwa zulkifli
publishDate 2021
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/63758/2/63758.pdf
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