Securitized Insurance Risk: Strategic Opportunities for Insurers and Investors

By Michael Himick

-For insurers, investors, risk managers, and investment managers -Chapters are written by prominent experts Focuses on the convergence of the insurance and financial markets in risk management and the emergence of insurance risk as a non-correlated asset class. Written for insurers and investors alike, this book explores the opportunities available to forward-looking risk and investment managers. Chapters specifically address: the win-win principle behind securitizing insurance risk; current structures, including catastrophe bonds, structured notes, catastrophe options, and swaps; partnering financial market tools with traditional reinsurance programmes; holding insurance risk, uncorrelated with stocks and bonds; pricing insurance risk instruments and evaluating basic risk; and regulatory and accounting concerns.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888998350
• ISBN13: 9781888998351
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"