Life settlements and insurance-linked securities

Returns uncorrelated with markets and a literature to match: a handful of technical handbooks, no general-reader book at all.

5 books

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  1. Investing in Insurance RiskAlex Krutov, 2010
  2. Life Settlements and Longevity StructuresGeoff Chaplin, Jim Aspinwall, Mark Venn, 2009
  3. The Handbook of Insurance-Linked SecuritiesPauline Barrieu, Luca Albertini, 2009

Books 5

Pauline Barrieu, Luca Albertini · 2009 · The reference volume on ILS structures, pricing and investors.
Alex Krutov · 2010 · Practitioner survey of ILS, mortality and longevity risk transfer.
Geoff Chaplin, Jim Aspinwall, Mark Venn · 2009 · The one book specifically on buying life policies as an investment.
Christoph Weber · 2011 · Academic treatment of the securitisation of non-life risk.
Thomas Nowak, Andreas Richter, Thomas Hartung · 2014 · Risk-and-pricing analysis of the property-catastrophe end.