"Luca Albertini and Pauline Barrieu are to be congratulated on this volume. Written in a period where structured projects in finance are having a difficult time, it is worthwhile to return to the cradle of securitisation: insurance. Spread out over three parts (life, non- life, and tax and regulatory issues) the 26 chapters, written mainly by practitioners, give an excellent overview of this challenging field of modern insurance. Methodology and examples nicely go hand in hand. The overall slant being towards actual analyses of concrete products. No doubt this book will become a milestone...

The Risk and Stochastics Conference, held at the Royal Statistical Society in April 2015, brought together academics from the worlds of actuarial science, finance, probability and statistics to celebrate the achievements of Professor Ragnar Norberg as he turns 70.This book is a collection of articles written by speakers of the conference, themselves respected academics who have influenced and been influenced by the life and work of Professor Norberg. Celebrated in this book are his professional and academic achievements, most significantly the instrumental work he put into setting up the...