Introduction to Alternative Risk Transfer
Below are a selection of articles and papers introducing the concepts associated with alternative risk transfer.
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ART versus reinsurance: the disciplining effect of information insensitivity 
Paper by Silke Brandts and Christian Laux
What Drives the Demand for Industry Loss Warranties? 
Paper from the Uni of St Gallen Institute of Insurance Economics
The Development of New Catastrophe Risk Markets 
Paper by Howard C. Kunreuther and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
The Booming ART Market
Article from AIRCurrents
March 2006
ART
UPDATE The hard market makes consideration of ART almost a necessity
Article from Rough Notes Magazine (by
Michael J. Moody)
First Published March 2004
Financial
Lines - The New ART Frontier
Article by Brent Clark of Strategic Risk
Solutions
First Published December 2001
Alternative
Risk Financing - Developing the Market Potential of Small and Medium-Sized
Companies
Article by Paul Wöhrmann of Zurich
Switzerland
First Published Spring 2001
The
Future of Irish Alternative Risk Transfer
Paper from Matherson Ormsby Prentice
(requires Acrobat Reader
First Published April 2003
ART
- The Client Perspective
Presentation by Sam Dell of Aon Ltd
(requires Microsoft PowerPoint)
First Published 2001
Catastrophe
Insurance Risks: Status of Efforts to Securitize Natural Catastrophe
and Terrorism Risk
Report from the U.S. General Accounting
Office
Alternative
Risk Transfer Roundtable
Roundtable discussion from Risk Management
Magazine
The
ART of Transferring Risk
Article from CFO Magazine
The
Picture of ART
Paper from Swiss Re (requires
Acrobat Reader
Alternative
Capital Sources
Paper from Lane Financial LLC
Considering
Alternative Risk Transfer
Article by Peter M. Polstein
Captives
and Other Risk-Financing Options
Article from the Insurance Information
Institute
Adding
Value with ART
Article by Brent Clarke
Convergence
Article from Risk Management Magazine
The
Use of Economic Capital in ERM and Risk Transfer
Article from Risk Management Magazine
Aces
in the Sleeve
Article from Risk Management Magazine
The
ART of financial engineering
Article by Richard Willsher
Alternative
risk strategies round table 2000
Article from Risk
European
ART joins the big picture
Article from Risk
The Insurative Model: Integrating Risk Management and Capital Management
Article from Risk Management Magazine
The Capital Markets: Insurance industry ally or competitor?
Speech given to the International Federation
of Risk and Insurance Management Associations
State
of the ART - New trends in financing risk
Paper from the International Risk Management
Institute
Latin
America - A thriving ART scene
Article by Vineet Kalucha of LatinAmerican
Re
ART
for the masses
Article from Risk Magazine
Managing
Catastrophe Risk
Paper by by Paul R. Kleindorfer and Howard
Kunreuther
Top
Five Myths of the Alternative Market
Article by Albert Beer of American Re
Reinventing
Insurance: New Approaches To Risk
Article from Derivatives Strategy Magazine
Why
Securitization Matters
Article from Applied Insurance Research
Collision
course?
Article from Risk Publications
Financing
Catastrophe Risk: Capital Market Solutions
Article from the ISO
The
Market for Catastrophe Risk: A clinical examination
Paper by Kenneth A. Froot of Harvard
Business School
Property
/ Liability insurance risk management and securitization
Paper from the Casualty Actuarial Society
Demistifying
the "alternative" in ART
Article by George Sandars, partner at
Denton Wilde Sapte
Catastrophe
Insurance, Capital Markets and Uninsurable Risks
Paper from the Wharton Financial Institutions
Center
Financial
Risk Management of Insurance Enterprises
Presentation from the University of Illinois
