Alternative Risk Transfer: Integrated Risk Management through Insurance, Reinsurance, and the Capital Markets

Erik Banks

ISBN 10: 0470857455 / ISBN 13: 9780470857458

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2004

About this Item

Offers a practical approach to ART - an alternative method by which companies take on various types of risk. This book shows readers what ART is, how it can be used to mitigate risk, and how certain instruments/structures associated with ART should be implemented. It also explains readers what works and what doesn't when using this technique. Series: Wiley Finance Series. Num Pages: 238 pages, ill. BIC Classification: KFFN; KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 556. . 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alternative Risk Transfer: Integrated Risk Management through Insurance, Reinsurance, and the Capital Markets
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470857455
• ISBN 13: 9780470857458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A practical approach to ART-an alternative method by which companies take on various types of risk
This comprehensive book shows readers what ART is, how it can be used to mitigate risk, and how certain instruments/structures associated with ART should be implemented. Through numerous examples and case studies, readers will learn what actually works and what doesn't when using this technique.
Erik Banks (CT) joined XL Capital's weather/energy risk management subsidiary, Element Re, as a Partner and Chief Risk Officer in 2001.

About the Author

ERIK BANKS has held senior risk management positions at several global financial institutions, including XL Capital, where he was Partner and Chief Risk Officer of the Bermuda reinsurer's derivative subsidiary, and Merrill Lynch, where he spent 13 years managing credit and market risk teams in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and New York. Mr. Banks has written various books on risk management, emerging markets, derivatives, merchant banking, and electronic finance.