Structured finance and insurance : the ART of managing capital and risk

Real and financial capital -- Risk and risk management -- Leverage -- Adverse selection and corporate financing decisions -- Capital budgeting, project selection, and performance evaluation -- Risk transfer -- Risk finance -- Insurance -- Reinsurance -- Credit insurance and financial guarantees -- Derivatives -- Credit derivatives -- The structuring process -- Hybrids, convertibles, and structured notes -- Contingent capital -- Securitization -- Cash collateralized debt obligations -- Synthetic collateralized debt obligations -- Structured synthetic hybrids -- Securitizing private equity and hedge funds -- Project and principal finance -- Risk securitizations and insurance-linked notes -- Captives, protected cell companies, and mutuals -- Finite risk -- Multi-line and multi-trigger insurance structures -- Contingent cover -- The emerging role of patent law in risk finance / J. B. Heaton -- Critical distinctions between insurance and weather derivatives / Andrea S. Kramer -- Is insurance a substitute for capital under the revised basel accord? / Barbara T. Kavanagh -- Is my SPE a VIE under FIN46R? : and if so, so what? / J. Paul Forrester and Benjamin Neuhausen -- Credit derivatives, insurance, and CDOs : the aftermath of Enron / Alton B. Harris and Andrea S. Kramer -- Project finance collateralized debt obligations : what? why? now? / J. Paul Forrester -- 2004 trends in insurance securitization : exploring outside the cat box / Morton N. Lane and Roger Beckwith -- Enterprise risk management : the case of United Grain Growers / Scott Harrington, Greg