Best books to learn about Insurance Linked Securities:

If you haven’t heard about Insurance Linked Securities or Alternative Capital, you have been under a rock or nose stuck in a book (or probably Game of Thrones).


Now time to open a new book and pay attention cause these are many of the best books to learn about Insurance Linked Securities.

The ART of Risk Management: Alternative Risk Transfer, Capital Structure, and the Convergence of Insurance and Capital Markets

The ART of Risk Management: Alternative Risk Transfer, Capital Structure, and the Convergence of Insurance and Capital Markets

One of the hottest areas of finance today, alternative risk transfer, or ART, refers to the use of various insurance products to manage market, credit, operational, legal, environmental, and other forms of risk. As the capital and insurance markets continue to converge, the number and complexity of new risk-defraying insurance products available to corporations, brokerages, money managers and other financial professionals will continue to grow. Expert Christopher L. Culp uses case studies of recent ART transactions used by risk managers to put the field into perspective for financial professionals and to acquaint them with the various types of risk control products now available. In addition he explores, in-depth, the links between ART, derivatives and bank-arranged risk financing, and he explains the key differences between classic insurance products and financial guarantees, risk financing, bundled layering, and other ART forms.

Insurance Linked Securities: The Role of the Banks

Insurance Linked Securities: The Role of the Banks

Securitizations of insurance risk as new methods of risk transfer have been emerging in the global financial market during the recent twenty years. Christoph Weber analyses the techniques of traditional methods in comparison with securitizations for life- and non-life insurance risk.

The Handbook of Insurance-Linked Securities (The Wiley Finance Series)

The Handbook of Insurance-Linked Securities (The Wiley Finance Series)

The convergence of insurance with the capital markets has opened up an alternative channel for insurers to transfer risk, raise capital and optimize their regulatory reserves as well as offering institutions a source of relatively liquid investment with limited correlation with other exposures. One of the financial instruments allowing for the cession of insurance-related risks to the capital markets is Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS).

This book provides hands-on information essential for market participants, drawing on the insights and expertise of an impressive team of international market players, representing the various aspects and perspectives of this growing sector.

The book presents the state of the art in Insurance-Linked Securitization, by exploring the various roles for the different parties involved in the transactions, the motivation for the transaction sponsors, the potential inherent pitfalls, the latest developments and transaction structures and the key challenges faced by the market.

The book is organized into parts, each covering a specific topic or sector of the market. After a general overview of the ILS market, the Insurance-Linked Securitization process is studied in detail. A distinction is made between non-life and life securitization, due to the specificities of each sector. The process and all the actors involved are identified and considered in a comprehensive and systematic way. The concepts are first looked at in a general way, before the analysis of relevant case studies where the ILS technology is applied.

Life Markets: Trading Mortality and Longevity Risk with Life Settlements and Linked Securities

Life Markets: Trading Mortality and Longevity Risk with Life Settlements and Linked Securities


A complete guide to longevity finance

As the Baby Boomer population continues to age and the need for the securitization of life insurance policies increases, more financial institutions are looking towards longevity trading as a solution. Consequently, there is now a need for innovative financial products and strategies that have the ability to hedge longevity exposure for pension funds, reinsurance companies, and governments. These products and strategies are currently being developed with the use of life settlements. Here, author Vishaal Bhuyan provides a complete guide to this burgeoning sector. In Life Markets, Bhuyan and a team of expert contributors from leading firms offer an extensive look at how to trade life settlements.

  • Provides practical guidance to the growing field of longevity finance
  • Outlines the innovative financial products that are populating this field
  • Highlights a safe haven for investors seeking returns in troubled times

Covering everything from the history of life settlements to making a transaction-pricing, service providers, exchanges, and more-this book contains extensive coverage of the many issues surrounding longevity finance.

Investing in Insurance Risk: Insurance-Linked Securities – A Practitioner’s Perspective by Alex Krutov (2010-06-02)

Investing in Insurance Risk: Insurance-Linked Securities – A Practitioner’s Perspective by Alex Krutov (2010-06-02)

The detailed strategies and insight into investing in risk.  This book has objective of describing ILS, acting as a resource in the market, and understanding new topics to this field.  Investors will see the value.

Non-Life Insurance-Linked Securities: Risk and Pricing Analysis

Non-Life Insurance-Linked Securities: Risk and Pricing Analysis

A technicians dream, this book has modeling and pricing methodologies, theory, risk analysis, and more.

Catastrophe Insurance Risks: The Role of Risk-Linked Securities and Factors Affecting Their Use – Scholar’s Choice Edition

Catastrophe Insurance Risks: The Role of Risk-Linked Securities and Factors Affecting Their Use – Scholar’s Choice Edition

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Produced by the US GAO, there is tremendous value from seeing the government view of Risk Linked Securities.

Catastrophe Bonds: Spreading Risk

Catastrophe Bonds: Spreading Risk

The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper.  The topic at hand is CAT Bonds and their impact.

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