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Download or read book Reinsurance in Risk and Capital Management written by Leonard Sammut and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: A, University of Malta, course: Master of Arts in Financial Services, language: English, abstract: Widely advertised corporate failures and the European Commission’s Solvency II initiative are exerting pressure on insurers worldwide to improve their risk and capital management capabilities and to adopt a unified and integrated approach towards the management of their risk profile and capital base. Against the backdrop of these developments, the study focuses on one of the fundamental risk and capital management tools available to insurance companies worldwide, namely reinsurance. The objective is to evaluate reinsurance within the risk and capital management structures and processes of Maltese insurance providers writing general business of insurance.