Blended covers/integrated covers

The combining of conventional insurance with financial losses in a single programme, as in multi-line insurance. Risks can be priced on a portfolio basis – and therefore cover may be available for risks that, in isolation, would be too costly to insure. The financial losses are based on falls in a specified index and not the actual portfolio.

Blended rates

Group mortality rates based partially on a group’s experience and partially on manual rates. These rates are used to establish the right group insurance premium rates for intermediate-size groups.

Blended reinsurance

Reinsurance that integrates in a single contract traditional risk transfer and financial reinsurance or finite risk reinsurance coverage components. An example would be a contract that combines catastrophe coverage on a per occurrence basis with casualty coverage having an aggregate limit and aggregate retention.