INSURANCE‐LINKED SECURITIES, REINSURANCE, RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE RISK ANALYSIS BIBLIOGRAPHY Extensive reference source on insurance‐linked securities, reinsurance, insurance, analysis of insurance risk, management of portfolios of insurance risk, insurance catastrophe modeling, construction and optimization of insurance risk portfolios, cat bonds, reinsurance structures, risk accumulation, risk measures in insurance and reinsurance, enterprise risk management for insurance and reinsurance companies, regulatory arbitrage in insurance and reinsurance, direct and indirect investment in insurance and reinsurance risk, use of actuarial analytical tools, risk and return tradeoffs, risk‐based capital, stochastic analysis, and global trends in insurance, reinsurance and capital markets Taken from Alex Krutov, Investing in Insurance Risk (Insurance‐Linked Securities – A Practitioner’s Perspective), Risk Books, London, 2011 Most comprehensive Will soon require an update

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MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE RISK ANALYSIS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Extensive reference source on insurance‐linked securities, reinsurance,
insurance, analysis of insurance risk, management of portfolios of
insurance risk, insurance catastrophe modeling, construction and
optimization of insurance risk portfolios, cat bonds, reinsurance
structures, risk accumulation, risk measures in insurance and reinsurance,
enterprise risk management for insurance and reinsurance companies,
regulatory arbitrage in insurance and reinsurance, direct and indirect
investment in insurance and reinsurance risk, use of actuarial analytical
tools, risk and return tradeoffs, risk‐based capital, stochastic analysis,
and global trends in insurance, reinsurance and capital markets
Taken from Alex Krutov, Investing in Insurance Risk (Insurance‐Linked
Securities – A Practitioner’s Perspective), Risk Books, London, 2011
> Most comprehensive
> Will soon require an update
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