Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

The market for insurance risk is currently illiquid and limited mostly to private investors. Dominic Burke, JLT's chief executive, pointed to an increase in the use and the variety of structures ...

This paper analyzes the reasons why exchange-traded insurance-linked derivatives like catastrophe insurance futures and options have failed to attract interest from financial market participants.

Ram Kelkar, Managing Director of Milliman's Capital Markets Group, says, "Usage of derivatives as a risk management tool is critical to the global life insurance industry, which is facing historically ...

The insurance sector will continue to be a significant player in the “opaque” credit derivatives market, says the Fitch ratings agency.Fitch surveyed the activities of 120 financial institutions 73 ...