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 ...

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 ...

WHEN THE WORLD’S largest interdealer broker plunges into a new financial market, it’s a reasonable bet that it is one set for substantial growth. In February 2007, Icap, which boasts a daily ...

Berkshire Hathaway said first-quarter profit fell 3.8 percent on reduced earnings from Chairman Warren Buffett’s derivatives wagers and underwriting at insurance businesses. Net income slipped to ...

Principals who manage private equity, venture capital and/or hedge funds often desire to transfer the upside potential (namely, the carried interest or performance fee) to lower generations because ...

One of Japan's largest property insurers is co-developing a prototype blockchain system for insurance derivatives. Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings announced today that it is working with a firm called ...

As highlighted by Felix Salmon and our colleague Joe Weisenthal, Citi is close to producing a new kind of derivative that would allow companies to hedge against financial crisis -- essentially ...

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