The Insurance Policy number is part of the insurance policy structure which is generated uniquely to the insured and serves as an identi...

SEASONALITY OF THE HURRICANE RISK IN INSURANCE-LINKED SECURITIES The main hurricane risk of insurance-linked securities, that of North ...

INDEX-LINKED CONTRACTS Traditional insurance and reinsurance contracts are based purely on direct indemnification of the insured o...

CATASTROPHE MODEL STRUCTURE A catastrophe model that can be used in modelling insurance losses includes all the primary elements menti...

THE CHALLENGE OF MODELLING CATASTROPHE EVENTS The very last painting by Salvador Dali was titled The Swallow’s Tail – Series on Catast...

Return period Often, the data is presented in the form of return period instead of exceedance probability. These two terms are closely ...

This article provides a brief introduction to insurance-linked securities (ILS) as an asset class in order to lay the foundation for the ...

Property Catastrophe Bonds This article describes property catastrophe bonds, which are probably the best known type of insurance-lin...

This article provides a brief overview of concepts that are fairly obvious to most professionals in the investment and insurance field ...