Introducing the City - Session VI
 
 
 
 
   
 
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Session VI 12th November 2008
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Insurance and Risk Management
To describe London’s involvement in the international insurance and risk transfer markets. The session introduces the participants in the market, explains the structures and shows how insurance and capital markets are converging.

Insurance
  • Providers of capital and its role
  • Dependence on investment markets
  • The history of risk
  • Categories of risk
  • How risks arise
  • To accept, mitigate or transfer risk?
  • Classes of insurance
  • Reinsurance
  • Alternative methods of risk transfer
David Wilson
Management Consultant

Information Management

Information and how it's used: the Marriage of Words and Numbers.
  • The markets and news in the context of the Credit Crunch
  • Equity markets - from idea generation, through price discovery, valuation and execution: a case study.
  • Accessing the Cash Credit and CDS Markets
  • FX & FX Derivatives
  • Structured Products & enhancing yield.
  • Commodities & the Brazilian bonanza.
Desmond Kinsella Bevan
Account Manager
Bloomberg
 
     
 
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