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CAT-DERIVATES
NEW WAY TO INSURE CATASTROPHE RISK
Daniel Meyer
Daniel Meyer

2. INTRODUCTION
 Increase of natural disasters since 1970
 Four times more a year from 100 up to 400 times
 Hurricane Andrew (1992) and Northridge earthquake
(1994) resulted in 30 billion USD in insured property
losses
 Possible rise of catastrophe losses up to 100 billion USD
 Decrease of losses caused by
 population growth
 urban conglomerations
 climatic change
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3. PROBLEM
 The money of the insurance market is not sufficient
 Traditional reinsurances are inappropriately
 100 billion USD correspond to 30% of the equity capital
of US insurance market
 The occurrence of natural disasters will definitely
increase
Solution:
 More efficient mechanism for financing CAT losses
 Need of a new source of capital
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4. SOLUTION FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES
 Transfer catastrophe risk to the capital stock market
 Attractive investment possibilities for new investors
 Need of new financial products:
 Cat-Bonds
 Cat-Options
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5. CAT-BONDS
 Simple finance product
 Issued by a insurance company
 fix payments addicted to a natural desaster
 Three characteristics if a special trigger point is
achieved:
 Loss of the whole money
 Decrease of the monthly payments
 No exposure payments anymore
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6. CAT-OPTIONS
 More complex Instrument
 Traded on a stock exchange
 Linked to a Catastrophic-Loss Index
 Limited amount of losses or gains
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7. CONCLUSION
 New ways to insure regions with high catastrophe risk
are needed
 The capital market is a good alternative to the insurance
market as a source of capital
 About 13 trillion USD
 Cat-Derivates are a good alternative for investors to
traditional financial products
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8. THANKS
FOR YOUR ATTENTION