More and more insurance companies are currently offering, within their products, policies devised to be signed by parents or grandparents for children or grandchildren. In periods economically and financially more “turbulent” is only natural that there is an increase in requests for forms of investment with low risk and the various life insurance proposals currently offer some certainty because it is prudence-oriented solutions and that allow you to build, year after year, a small capital through sustainable insurance premiums, a guaranteed return: in short, a “safe haven” to be protected against risks of storms in the vast sea of savings management.

These tools often provide guarantees to complete the build-up plan in case of untimely death of the contractor.

The component of savings is therefore very strong in these types of policies, the purpose of these products is to make available to the child or grandchild a capital that is useful in the future, once came to maturity, to pay for studies or to start up employment.

Really interesting are the policies proposed by some insurance companies, which offer services such as added bonus tied to school or academic performances: an attempt to enhance the studying which is particularly positive and praiseworthy.

Marketing is the economic sector that deals with the descriptive study of the market and the analysis of interactions between businesses and consumers. A marketing-oriented business places among its main aims the understanding of the customers needs and then attempt to satisfy them through the supply of products and services targeted. This is a market strategy more advanced than those used in the past, when were privileged aspects such as the production process, the product itself, the sale: although such guidelines have borne fruit in economic moments where it was necessary to support technology development or where the saturation of the market required strength and peremptory approaches to customers today are inadequate because the multifaceted market and maturity of customers push companies to play an increasingly proactive role. So to improve their level of competitiveness, or even to ensure survival in the market, a company must know thoroughly the respective target, so as to move in the direction of its actual needs and expectations. It is therefore necessary to understand customer behavior, by monitoring the outgoing information flows and by better managing the knowledge from outside.

Either is addressed to consumer (B2C, business to consumer) or to the market of business (B2B, business to business), an effective marketing strategy must aim to create value for the customers, which means on one hand meet the their needs and on the other hand to ensure that the brand are good positioned in the minds of consumers themselves (branding strategies). The latest marketing trends pose a great deal of attention on experiential consumption, namely the attempt to merge in the purchase experience those elements linked to senses, perceptions, emotions.

The e-Commerce is one of the sectors that are experiencing in recent years the highest growth rate, a phenomenon in constant development that uses a platform now widely disseminated globally and able to connect thousands of commercial realities with millions and millions of users: Internet. Many are the salient features of electronic commerce: it is not in fact merely an online purchase of goods or services but a complex and articulated set of activities in which the confluence of elements of economics, sociology, psychology (besides of course the technology) and that was marked over time by profound changes both under structural and substantial point of view.

Currently, the turnover of online trade is calculated on the basis of billions of dollars, with a continuous increase year after year. Even if with some difficulty, and especially thanks to a few players, e-commerce has been able to cope in the recent past inflections recorded in other economic sectors, both at the time of the explosion of the dotcom bubble (in 2000) and after September 11 (2001), it also seems to be able to overcome indemnify the current period of stagnation that characterizes the European and US economy. The increasing penetration of Internet (with the parallel diffusion of broadband), along with a gradual acquisition of know-how by the various players and greater familiarity of users with virtual shop-windows and carts, as well as with payment systems such as credit card, seem to be the main factors that contribute to determine the success of e-Commerce.

Investment means the acquisition and creation of resources for use in the production process: purpose of investment is the increase of the capital goods.

In private companies and public sector investment is needed to acquire or produce capital goods that can be physical (such as plant, machinery, sheds), intangible (such as research or advertising campaigns designed to produce a return of image, resources to be used in the production process as raw materials) or financial. There are also particular investments (in a broad sense) that can be considered as part of the social budget, as investment in staff training or in less polluting production systems.
Companies consider investment in terms of capital that it requires, the cost of various sources of capital, to decide between different plans for the amortization of debt incurred to make the investment and between different investments that generate different financial flows.

The investment involves some risk related to the possibility that the return on investment (R.O.I.) can be variable, depending on a number of uncertain elements (trend in securities, exchange trends, risks of a different outcome than what estimated or riskes for the occurrence of unforeseen negative elements).
To reduce the risk, investors diversify investments by investing in different types of securities (options, equities, bonds), stocks of different companies, sectors, currency and market type.

The functions of deposit and loan have ancient origins: individuals used to entrust their assets to the treasure of the temple and priests already during the Sumerian Age, in Mesopotamia and among the ancient Greeks. In medieval times, in addition to the normal functions of providers, custodians and money-changers, bankers also took the guarantors of payments, signing letters of credit which undertook to pay sums on behalf of those who brought it: that was the first appearance of cheques, which relieved merchants and sovereigns of risk to carry large amounts of cash or valuable goods. This new activity collected so successful (and was so profitable) to create immense fortunes: in the largest commercial cities of Europe families of bankers became rich and powerful, so get to lend money to the kings of Europe, by financing their wars. Very often, rather than repay the loans, some of those creditors offered as payment feuds and noble titles.

Originally, commercial banks developed by the goldsmiths, who guarded gold and other precious objects of their clients , give them back when requested by issuing a receipt in exchange. Little by little the goldsmiths realized that people were willing to accept a quantity of gold in a given value and not the same gold that had actually deposited. They also understood that people did not withdraw all together gold deposited. Each day a part of gold was withdrawn while other gold was deposited. The balance between deposits and withdrawals, under normal economic conditions, was positive and then it was possible to make available to clients only a little part of gold deposited, using the remainder for interest bearing investments.

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