Risk financing

Risk financing

In business economics, risk financing is concerned with providing funds to cover the financial effect of unexpected losses experienced by a firm. Traditional forms of finance include, funded retention by way of reserves (often called self insurance) and risk pooling.

Alternative risk finance is the use of products and solutions which have grown out of the convergence of the banking and insurance industry. They include captive insurance companies and catastrophic bonds, and finite risk products such loss portfolio transfers and adverse development covers.


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