Investopedia / Sydney Burns An insurance derivative is a financial instrument that derives its value from an underlying insurance index or the characteristics of an event related to insurance.

Well, both Greenspan and Buffett claim that derivatives values and liabilities are difficult for even their holders to track. Insurance giant American International Group , by nature of its ...

We should be very concerned about the use of derivatives in the insurance industry. Since insurance companies, like banks and mortgage institutions, are not required to make public their exposure ...

In fact, the average person who's a homeowner owns a derivative. It's the insurance policy on their house, and it's essentially a contract that you enter into with an insurer that pays you a ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. found "shortcomings" in the resolution plans of three of the largest banks last week, and found Citigroup's resolution plan "deficient," all because of problems ...

Mumbai: The insurance regulator on Friday permitted insurers to use equity derivatives for hedging their existing equity exposures. This has been a long-pending demand from life insurance ...

Derivatives are financial instruments that derive their value from one or more underlying financial assets. Learn more about the types of derivatives and the pros and cons of investing. Financial ...

Read our advice disclaimer here. A derivative is a financial instrument that derives its value from something else, such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates, or market indexes.

Derivatives, we are often warned, should be off bounds for lay investors, given the complexities involved and the losses likely to be incurred when they take exposures without adequate ...

Insurance industry regulator IRDAI has allowed insurance companies to hedge risks through equity derivatives to counter market ovolatility. “Considering the requests from the insurers, the increasing ...