Rational Reinsurance Buying

Publication Date	November 2002
Publisher	Risk Books
Product Type	Book
Pages	287
ISBN Number	190433900X
Product Code	RIS00299

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Summary

Presents the strategies, motives and methods practiced by the major players and suggests why corporate behaviour and internal culture may have an influence on insurance purchasing
Examines the global behavioural aspects of reinsurance and breaks down buying patterns by organisational type and preferred strategy
Provides inside knowledge to assist insurers in assessing their own reinsurance buying policies and to utilise the most appropriate and effective modelling techniques for specific needs
Expert contributions from insurance, reinsurance, brokers and modelling agencies
Includes sections on: alternative strategies, risk assessment and the role of capital, as well as a study of how transactions are now being made and efforts to create more sustainable relationships in the industry

Content

Preface
Alternative Strategies of Insurers
- 1. The Evolution of Purchasing Strategy
  - Nick Golden of Royal and Sun Alliance Group
- 2. Managing Reinsurance within a Multinational Environment
  - Robert Stevenson of Zurich Financial Services
- 3. Reinsurance Buying Practices
  - Philippe Derieux of AXA
- 4. A New Rationale for Reinsurance Buying?
  - Herbert Sedlmair of Allianz AG
- 5. The Evolution of American International Group, Inc.'s Reinsurance Strategy
  - Chris Milton of American International Group Inc. (AIG)
Risk Assessment
- 6. Can Reinsurance Credit Risk be Priced?
  - Chris Klein of Benfield Group Ltd
- 7. Catastrophe Modelling
  - Dickie Whitaker of Guy Carpenter
- 8. Identifying and Controlling Emerging Risk
  - Reto Schneider of Swiss Re
- 9. Dynamic Financial Analysis: The Answer to Rational Reinsurance Purchase?
  - David Simmons of Benfield Group Ltd
Integration of Risk Management with Capital Management
- 10. Economic and Financial Perspectives on the Demand for Reinsurance
  - James R. Garven of Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University and Joan Lamm-Tennant of GeneralCologne Re
- 11. Alternative capital sources
  - Morton Lane of Lane Financial LLC
Alternative Perspectives
- 12. The Future of Electronic Trading
  - Kathrine Huelster of inreon
- 13. Principles on Minimum Requirements for Supervision of Reinsurers
  - Reinsurance Subcommittee of IAIS
- 14. Supervisory Standard on the Evaluation of the Reinsurance Cover of Primary Insurers and the Security of their Reinsurers
  - Reinsurance Subcommittee of IAIS
- 15. Risk Measurement and Reinsurance
  - Jonathan Barber of The SERM Rating Agency, Adam Rose of Falcon Asset Management and Paul Koronka of Charles Taylor Consulting Plc
- 16. Academia and Insurance: Bridging the Gap
  - Dougal Goodman of The Foundation for Science and Technology