Alternative risk transfer

Course questionnaire: by what other routes does a risk leave the insurer's balance sheet?

Six questions on retrocession, extreme mortality, retrospective reinsurance, the captive and its fronter, and sovereign triggers.

6 questions, 5 minutes

Course questionnaire

Easy questions on the central ideas of the course, several of them true or false. Get 5 out of 6 right and the course is passed. After each answer, you see whether it is right, and why.

1 / 6 · True or false

Answers are marked together when you submit: choose, move on to the next one, and your score comes at the end.

True or false: when retrocessions form a closed circle, the risk is diluted further with each turn.

Review

Every question, its answer and the reasoning

The same material, in continuous reading. Each point links to the matching glossary entry, where the notion is covered in full with its worked example.

Course questionnaire: by what other routes does a risk leave the insurer's balance sheet?

Every question, its answer and the reasoning

1. True or false: when retrocessions form a closed circle, the risk is diluted further with each turn.

2. What does an extreme mortality bond cover?

3. True or false: retrospective reinsurance covers losses that have already occurred, whose final cost remains uncertain.

4. In a captive and fronting arrangement, who remains liable to the insured if the captive fails?

5. True or false: a reinsurance captive is owned by the group whose risks it insures.

6. What does a state buy first with parametric catastrophe cover?