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The Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) market has expanded in recent years to become a vital source of risk solutions and risk capacity and an important mechanism for the creation of integrated corporate risk management programs.
The ART market unites the risk management and product development skills of financial institutions, insurers and reinsurers with the capital of global investors to give corporate risk managers the best possible means of managing financial and operating risks. In a time when natural and man-made disasters and financial volatility are constantly present, the need for dependable, equitably priced risk capacity and innovative, holistic risk solutions has never been greater. The ART market, which can supply both, is thus becoming an integral component of the 21st century financial markets.
Alternative Risk Transfer, written by a veteran of the banking and insurance industries, provides a practical, detailed and up-to-date review of the topic. The text is divided into four parts, including
- Risk and the ART market
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Capital Markets
- Enterprise Risk Management and the Future of ART
The book contains numerous worked examples and case studies to place the subject in a practical light, and is ideal reading for CFOs, corporate risk managers, treasurers, institutional investors and fund managers seeking to understand the ART market.
Acknowledgements.
Biography.
PART I: RISK AND THE ART MARKET.
1 Overview of Risk Management.
1.1 Risk and return.
1.2 Active risk management.
1.2.1 Risk management processes.
1.2.2 Risk management techniques.
1.2.3 General risk management considerations.
1.3 Risk concepts.
1.3.1 Expected value and variance.
1.3.2 Risk aversion.
1.3.3 Risk transfer and the insurance mechanism.
1.3.4 Diversification and risk pooling.
1.3.5 Hedging.
1.3.6 Moral hazard, adverse selection and basis risk.
1.3.7 Non-insurance transfers.
1.4 Outline of the book.
2 Risk Management Drivers: Theoretical Motivations, Benefits, and Costs.
2.1 Maximizing enterprise value.
2.2 The decision framework.
2.2.1 Replacement and abandonment.
2.2.2 Costs and benefits of loss control.
2.2.3 Costs and benefits of loss financing.
2.2.4 Costs and benefits of risk reduction.
2.3 Coping with market cycles.
2.3.1 Insurance pricing.
2.3.2 Hard versus soft markets.
2.4 Accessing new risk capacity.
2.5 Diversifying the credit risk of intermediaries.
2.6 Managing enterprise risks intelligently.
2.7 Reducing taxes.
2.8 Overcoming regulatory barriers.
2.9 Capitalizing on deregulation.
3 The ART Market and its Participants.
3.1 A definition of ART.
3.2 Origins and background of ART.
3.3 Market participants.
3.3.1 Insurers and reinsurers.
3.3.2 Investment, commercial, and universal banks.
3.3.3 Corporate end-users.
3.3.4 Investors/capital providers.
3.3.5 Insurance agents and brokers.
3.4 Product and market convergence.
PART II: INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE.
4 Primary Insurance/Reinsurance Contracts.
4.1 Insurance concepts.
4.2 Insurance and loss financing.
4.3 Primary insurance contracts.
4.3.1 Maximum risk transfer contracts.
4.3.2 Minimal risk transfer contracts.
4.3.3 Layered insurance coverage.
4.4 Reinsurance and retrocession contracts.
4.4.1 Facultative and treaty reinsurance.
4.4.2 Quota share, surplus share, excess of loss, and reinsurance pools.
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