Two major crypto derivatives markets have seen significant liquidations this week – but while one saw its insurance fund hit an all-time high, the other experienced a dramatic decline. Such market ...

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 historically ...

Angel One diversifies beyond trading into insurance, wealth and asset management, aiming to strengthen engagement amid ...

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - With the United States bracing for big hurricanes this year, new derivatives to trade catastrophe risks offer insurers the extra protection they crave against ...

This paper analyzes the reasons why exchange-traded insurance-linked derivatives like catastrophe insurance futures and options have failed to attract interest from financial market participants.

Influential investment guru Warren Buffett calls them "financial weapons of mass destruction." U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, praises them, however, saying their benefits "have ...

The market for insurance risk is currently illiquid and limited mostly to private investors. Dominic Burke, JLT's chief executive, pointed to an increase in the use and the variety of structures ...

As the economy slowly recovers from the problems created by the financial and mortgage industries, investors and savers alike should watch for a potential problem: The use of unregulated derivatives ...

Richer you are, bigger is your loss -- this seems to have come true for world's richest person Warren Buffett with a whopping first quarter loss of $1.6 billion in derivatives, an amount bigger than ...

As highlighted by Felix Salmon and our colleague Joe Weisenthal, Citi is close to producing a new kind of derivative that would allow companies to hedge against financial crisis -- essentially ...