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.

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 ...

The longevity derivatives market has expanded to include forward contracts, options, and swaps. Aside from giving pension funds and certain insurance companies an option to protect themselves ...

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 ...

The agreement, which is awaiting court approval, will be financed entirely through insurance proceeds that will be disbursed to the plaintiffs' legal counsel and Newmark Group itself. The ...

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 ...

Derivative Path (http://www.derivativepath.com), a San Francisco Bay area-based fast growing advisory and technology provider in the OTC derivatives space, announced ...