catastrophe hazard

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• Catastrophe Hazard — The risk of loss from a particularly destructive event, such as a hurricane, flood or terrorist attack. Catastrophe hazard represents a particularly large risk to insurers because of the overwhelming number of claims filed at once in the… …   Investment dictionary

• Catastrophe bond — Catastrophe bonds (also known as cat bonds) are risk linked securities that transfer a specified set of risks from a sponsor to investors. They are often structured as floating rate corporate bonds whose principal is forgiven if specified trigger …   Wikipedia

• Catastrophe Insurance — Insurance to protect businesses and residences against natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes, and against man made disasters such as terrorist attacks. These low probability, high cost events are generally excluded from… …   Investment dictionary

• Earth impact hazard — ▪ astronomy Introduction  the danger of collision posed by astronomical small bodies whose orbits (orbit) around the Sun carry them near Earth. These objects include the rocky asteroids and their larger fragments and the icy nuclei of comets.… …   Universalium

• Cresta, Catastrophe Risk Evaluating and Standardizing Target Accumulations — CRESTA (Catastrophe Risk Evaluation and Standardizing Target Accumulations) was founded as a joint project of Swiss Reinsurance Company, Gerling Konzern Globale Reinsurance Company, and Munich Reinsurance Company. CRESTA has set itself the aim of …   Wikipedia

• Natural hazard — This article is about the natural hazards that may lead to disasters. For natural disasters, see natural disaster. A natural hazard[1] is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment. Many… …   Wikipedia

• Man-made hazard — A man made hazard is a threat having an element of human intent, negligence, error or involving a failure of a system. Man made disasters are the result of man made hazards for which adequate emergency management measures have not been adopted.… …   Wikipedia

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• Risk Management Solutions — Infobox Company company name = Risk Management Solutions Inc company company slogan = Providing solutions to quantify and manage catastrophe risk. foundation = 1988 location = key people = Hemant H. Shah: President CEO Stephen I. Robertson: CFO… …   Wikipedia