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Alternative Risk Strategies: A New Approach to Handling Risk

Morton Lane (editor)
London: Risk Books, 2002
684pp, ISBN: 978-1-899332-63-2

This comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the overlap between insurance and finance examines new areas of risk financing and their effect on traditional methods of insurance. It provides an overview of the reinsurance industry and recent developments, research, and current practice, and a detailed approach to contingent financing, terrorism risk, captives, finite risk, loss portfolio transfers, the financial impact of catastrophic natural events, and modeling techniques.

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Alternative Risk Strategies

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This volume exposes the relatively new area of risk financing from traditional methods of insurance and provides analysis of the intersection of insurance and finance. It provides a detailed insight on a variety of issues to include an overview of the reinsurance industry, contingent financing, terrorism risk, captives, finite risk, loss portfolio transfers, catastrophe risk, modelling issues and risk swaps. The work features multi-author contributions from leading industry experts of the effects of September 11th on the insurance and reinsurance markets and chronicles the market changes from traditional methods of insurance through industry developments, research and current practice.

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