Options & Derivatives

Below are a selection of articles and papers discussing insurance options and insurance derivatives.

Many of these articles and papers are in PDF format and will require you to download Acrobat Reader.


If you have articles or papers that you'd like to promote to the Artemis audience please contact us.

Actuarially Consistent Valuation of Catastrophe Derivatives
Paper by Alexander Muermann (requires Acrobat Reader )
First Published July 2003

When Should a Cat Index Futures be Created?
Paper by Kazuhiko Ohashi
First Published March 2003

Impact of Uncertainty in Catastrophe Losses on Insurance Derivatives
Paper by Carol Hayek and Roger Ghanem (requires Acrobat Reader )
First Published 2002

Insurance and reinsurance contracts as complex derivatives: Application to multiple peril policies
Paper by Alan Jung and Cyrus Ramezani (requires Acrobat Reader )
First Published 2001

Actuarially Consistent Valuation of Catastrophe Derivatives
Paper from the Wharton Financial Institutions Center (requires Acrobat Reader )

Pricing Insurance and Insurance Derivatives: Diversification and Hedging in Incomplete Markets
Paper by Larry Eisenberg of Risk Engineering (requires Acrobat Reader )

Derivatives: Do they have a place in ERM?
Article from Rough Notes Magazine (by Michael J. Moody)

Derivatives and their application to insurance: A retrospective and prospective overview
Article from Aon (requires Acrobat Reader )

Impact of Uncertainty in Catastrophe Losses on Insurance Derivatives
Paper by Carol Hayek & Roger Ghanem (requires Acrobat Reader )

Implied Loss Distribution for Catastrophe Insurance Derivatives
Paper from University of Aarhus Centre for Analytical Finance (requires Acrobat Reader )

Real Options
Article from Risk Magazine

Derivatives Development
Article from Risk Magazine

Analysis of Applications of Some Ex-Ante Instruments for the Transfer of Catastrophic Risks
Paper from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (requires Acrobat Reader )

A Buyer's Guide for Options and Futures on a Catastrophe Index
Paper from the Casualty Actuarial Society (requires Acrobat Reader )

Insurance Catastrophe Futures
Paper from the Casualty Actuarial Society (requires Acrobat Reader )

Insurance derivatives: Convergence of capital markets and insurance markets
Paper by Dr. Marcel Grandi and Dr. Andreas Müller (requires Acrobat Reader )

A Buyer's Guide for Options on a Catastrophe Index
Paper from the Casualty Actuarial Society (requires Acrobat Reader )

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Index-Based Insurance Derivatives in Hedging Property/Casualty Insurance Transactions
Paper from the American Academy of Actuaries (requires Acrobat Reader )

Derivatives and Corporate Risk Management: Participation and Volume Decisions in the Insurance Industry
Paper from the Wharton Financial Institutions Center (requires Acrobat Reader )

A new model for pricing catastrophe insurance derivatives
Paper from the Centre for Analytical Finance, University of Aarhus (requires Acrobat Reader )

Application of the Option Market Paradigm to the Solution of Insurance Problems
Paper from the Casualty Actuarial Society (requires Acrobat Reader )

Bermuda Insurance Derivatives
Paper from Appleby Spurling & Kempe (requires Acrobat Reader )

Empirical Tests of Models of Catastrophe Insurance Futures
Paper from the Wharton Financial Institutions Center (requires Acrobat Reader )

An Asian Option to the Valuation of Insurance Futures Contracts
Paper from the Wharton Financial Institutions Center (requires Acrobat Reader )

Pricing Catastrophe Risk: Could CAT Futures Have Coped with Andrew?
Article from the Casualty Actuarial Society (requires Acrobat Reader )

Capital Markets, Derivatives and (Re)insurance
Article from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

Corporate Hedging in the Insurance Industry: The Use of Financial Derivatives by U.S. Insurers
Paper from the Wharton Financial Institutions Center (requires Acrobat Reader )

Derivatives
Article by Douglas Ruml, CFM. From Taurus Training

A Calculus of Risk
Article from Scientific American

Risk Management Programs & The Use of Derivatives
White paper from Strategies & Tactics

Insurance Derivatives Catch Fire
Article from Derivatives Strategy








Artemis Blog

Please visit the Artemis.bm blog at the link below. This will keep you up to date on commentary on our markets.
www.artemis.bm/blog
 Subscribe to the blog RSS feed

Newsletter

To subscribe to our monthly e-mail newsletter please fill out the
Subscription Form

Contact

www.Artemis.bm
To get in touch with us for any reason including advertising & sponsorship opportunities please use our
Contact Form