Los seguros de los hogares colombianos frente a los riesgos del aseguramiento

Abstract

This document presents the main results of research consisting of the insurance of Colombian households against insurance risks, with the objective of determining the importance and necessity of individuals and households with respect to insurance, their socio-demographic characteristics and the conditions of behavior of the demand with respect to its financial capacity, as well as the most frequent reasons for the cancellation of said insurance. The development of this research was of a descriptive type, of documentary analysis of databases on the subject both in the national and international context. According to FASECOLDA studies, the results show that there are about 13.5 million households, of which only 1.4 million have an insurance or 10.3%, with frequent cancellation possibilities due to different reasons of economic nature, of financial culture and ignorance of its benefits to protect the person and his family. It was also established that within the percentage of people who have life insurance, a large part has it for reasons of a financial credit, a business benefit and to a lesser extent on a voluntary basis. In Colombia there is a potential market with great challenges for the insurance industry in this type of home insurance.