Transferring risk to the capital market via catastrophe bonds for Asia s insurance, reinsurance and corporate companies

The Catastrophe Risk Financing and Securitisation Asia 2011 summit distinguishes itself as the pioneering event to foster the growth of insurance securitisation in Asia. Insurance securitisation through the issuance of catastrophe bonds has proven itself as a successful pre-event disaster funding strategy for insurers and reinsurers in Europe, USA and Bermuda. More recently, the successes seen in Turkey and the Caribbean have propelled Asia to re-consider this form of insurance risk diversification.