The Value of Risk: Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance

by David Gugerli, Peter Borscheid, Harold James, et al.

Book Overview

Reinsurance is an invisible service industry which enables insurance companies to insure more risks and to make better use of their resources. Until recently, reinsurers were only known to a small minority outside the insurance community. Major disasters, especially those caused by natural catastrophes, have increasingly brought the industry into the spotlight. Yet what is perceived today by a wider public still only represents a fraction of the industry,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199689806
• ISBN13: 9780199689804
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.7"