General resources

• Catastrophe Bonds Frequently Asked Questions
• Catastrophe Bonds links with catastrophe derivatives information. Catastrophes jobs.

  Documentation

• CAT BONDS Couverture des Risques Naturels et Climatiques par Alex Scherer
• LA TITRISATION DES RISQUES D'ASSURANCE LE MARCHE DES “INSURANCE LINKED SECURITIES” (ILS) [Alexandre Scherer]
• "Customizing Reinsurance and Cat Bonds for Natural Hazard Risks" [David C. Croson and Howard C. Kunreuther, June 1999] [pdf]
• IIMagazine.COM - Insurance - USAA, Zurich Ready Cat Bonds
• THE CATs ARE OUT OF THE BAG : Catastrophe bonds cushion insurers--and alarm reinsurers [Business Week, 01/26/98] [How CAT Bonds Will Shake Up the Insurance Industry]
• Der Anleger als "Rückversicherer" - Alternativer Risikotransfer mittels "Katastrophen-Anleihen" nach deutschem Recht
• S&P Confirms Earthquake Didn't Trigger Japanese Cat Bonds [International News, 10/10/2000]
• AGF To Issue Wind/Earthquake Cat Bonds
• Cat Bonds [Robert D. Hogue, FSA]
• NAIC Model Law Allows Penalty-Free Cat Bonds [1999]
• About ART - CAT Bonds
• Vanishing Cat Bonds : After an initial flurry of interest, the capital market has faded as a long-term alternative to traditional catastrophe insurance. [Best's Review Magazine]
• Cover story : CAT BONDS - Mankind is prone to disasters and there is no escape from it.
• Customizing Reinsurance and Cat Bonds for Natural Hazard ... [David C. Croson , Howard C. Kunreuther] [uqam]
• A Cat Bond Premium Puzzle? [Vivek J. Bantwal, Howard C. Kunreuther]
• Catastrophe Index-Linked Securities and Reinsurance as Substitutes
• The Evolving Market for Catastrophic Event Risk [Guy Carpenter, August 1998]
• Catastrophe Bond - CAT
• Fair weather friends : Catastrophe bonds are more dependent on the greenhouse effect than Greenspan [Janet Aschkenasy]
• Catastrophe Bonds: Your New Port in a Storm? [Susan Hodges, PCI-Nov-Dec, 1997]
• Katastrophenschuldverschreibungen (CAT-Bonds)
• Plan Sponsor June 1999: Tossing risk to the wind
• Mitigation and Financial Risk Management for Natural Hazards [Howard Kunreuther]
• White Papers : The Evolving Market for Catastrophic Event Risk [Guy Carpenter - August 1998]
• How Much Is That Cat Bond? Life insurers are among the biggest purchasers of catastrophe bonds. [Sally Whitney]
• Catastrophe Bonds - Unauthorised "insurance business" - Does Bermuda have the answer? [May 1998]
• SECURITY: A risk shared is a risk halved [FT.Com - Reinsurance]
• MMC Viewpoint: Catastrophe - Bonds Come of Age by Christopher McGhee
• IAP 2001 Activity: Weather Derivatives and Catastrophe Bonds
• FOLLOW-UP SURVEY ON INVOLVEMENT IN CLOs, CBOs, AND CATASTROPHE BONDS REVEALS SIMILAR RESULTS INDICATING CONTINUED CAUTIOUS INSTITUTIONAL INVESTING [Cheryl Easton]
• El Nino Buoys Catastrophe Bonds As Hurricane Season Ends [By MARC HOCHSTEIN and ROSS A. SNEL , dec.1997]
• PCI-Nov-Dec, 1997-Catastrophe Bonds: Your New Port in a Storm ...
• Insuring California Earthquakes and the Role for Catastrophe Bonds [Jose S. Penalva Zuasti]
• Catastrophe Bonds
• Insurance companies must look at catastrophe bonds and options [Niladri Nath Bhattacharjee, Dec 1999]
• Financial Risk Management of Insurance Enterprises [12/6/97]
• Diplomarbeiten Verzeichnis : Catastrophe Bonds - Securisation von Naturkatastrophenrisiken und Beurteilung der Attraktivität dieser Instrumente für Investoren (de)
• French reinsurer in catastrophe bond issue [15 Mar 2000 - By Andrea Felsted - Financial times]
• Modeling Catastrophe Reinsurance Risk: Implications for the CAT Bond Market [Francis Parisi]
• MMC Viewpoint: Will the International Financial Market Replace Traditional Reinsurance? [by G.H.C. Wakefield]
• CNA Re White Papers - Securitization : Even Nature Can Be Turned Into a Security - High Yield and Big Risk with Catastrophe Bonds
• Liability, Economics, and Insurance [Per Andersen and Tanja Nissen]
• Taurus eLearning - Alternative Risk Transfer Course
• Financial Innovation in the Management of Catastrophe Risk
• Financing Catastrophe Risk: Capital Market Solutions
• Securitisation of Insurance Risk [Dr. Alan Punter]
• A capital idea: Securitizing life and annuity risks [By Kenneth J. Clark, FSA]
• Bond buyers look to the skies [Environmental Finance]

  Grateful thanks to :

• Alexandre Scherer ; alexscherer.geo@yahoo.com