Catastrophe bond — Catastrophe bonds (also known as cat bonds) are risk linked securities that transfer a specified set of risks from a sponsor to investors. They are often structured as floating rate corporate bonds whose principal is forgiven if specified trigger … Wikipedia
Catastrophe Insurance — Insurance to protect businesses and residences against natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes, and against man made disasters such as terrorist attacks. These low probability, high cost events are generally excluded from… … Investment dictionary
Earth impact hazard — ▪ astronomy Introduction the danger of collision posed by astronomical small bodies whose orbits (orbit) around the Sun carry them near Earth. These objects include the rocky asteroids and their larger fragments and the icy nuclei of comets.… … Universalium
Cresta, Catastrophe Risk Evaluating and Standardizing Target Accumulations — CRESTA (Catastrophe Risk Evaluation and Standardizing Target Accumulations) was founded as a joint project of Swiss Reinsurance Company, Gerling Konzern Globale Reinsurance Company, and Munich Reinsurance Company. CRESTA has set itself the aim of … Wikipedia
Natural hazard — This article is about the natural hazards that may lead to disasters. For natural disasters, see natural disaster. A natural hazard[1] is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment. Many… … Wikipedia
Man-made hazard — A man made hazard is a threat having an element of human intent, negligence, error or involving a failure of a system. Man made disasters are the result of man made hazards for which adequate emergency management measures have not been adopted.… … Wikipedia
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Asteroid-impact avoidance — Planetary defense redirects here. For defending against alien invasion in fiction, see alien invasion. Artist s impression of a major impact event. The collision between Earth and an asteroid a few kilometres in diameter releases as much energy… … Wikipedia
Emergency management — Accident preparedness redirects here. For Safety related articles, see Safety. Disaster preparedness redirects here. For other articles related to disaster preparedness, see Category:Disaster preparedness. Emergency management is the generic name … Wikipedia
Risk Management Solutions — Infobox Company company name = Risk Management Solutions Inc company company slogan = Providing solutions to quantify and manage catastrophe risk. foundation = 1988 location = key people = Hemant H. Shah: President CEO Stephen I. Robertson: CFO… … Wikipedia
