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 ...

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.

Many insurance companies have long used derivative instruments to mitigate risk and match their liabilities – whether for shorter-term ones such as car insurance, or longer-term liabilities such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...