Weather risk management
Subtitle: a guide for corporations, hedge funds and investors
By: edited by Kenny Tang ; with special assistance from Lorraine Tang
Publisher: Risk Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781904339687
Subjects: Weather derivatives; Hedge funds; Risk management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. l. Introduction to weather risk. Living in interesting times; title: critical risks and risk management; title: Global weather sensitivity: the first step towards more detailed analysis of world weather sensitivity; title: pt. ll. Weather risk management and hedging strategies. The evolution of weather derivatives and contract types; title: Weather derivatives in India; title: Why the legal distinctions between weather derivatives and insurance really matter; title: pt. lll. Sector studies in agriculture and energy. Index insurance for agriculture in developing countries: moving beyond pilots; title: Rainfall insurance in semi-arid India: contract design, household participation and future prospects; title: Preparing for a rainy day: weather-based financial risk management solutions for the agricultural markets; title: Weather influence on the energy industry; title: key hedging considerations; title: pt. lV. Innovations in risk management. Genuine alpha, perfect security; title: reaffirming ILS rationales; title: Managing catastrophic risk: beyond cat bonds; title: Community early recovery voucher (CERVO) scheme for catastrophic weather disaster risks; title: Managing weather risk in a changing climate: opportunities from the developing science.