Alternative Risk Strategies

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.