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27 January 2012

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Juniperus Capital sold to private equity investor Aquiline

Insurance-specialist private equity investor Aquiline Capital Partners has bought out the existing shareholders of Bermuda-based catastrophe investment manager Juniperus Capital Ltd (JCL), Trading Risk can reveal…Read more

Hannover Re passes retro renewal test

After a tough year for its retrocessionaires, German reinsurer Hannover Re has renewed its protection for 2012, albeit on stricter terms than last year, Trading Risk can reveal…Read more

Perils puts EUR300mn industry loss on Windstorm Joachim

European exposure and loss collator, Perils AG, has estimated an initial industry loss of EUR300mn for December's windstorm Joachim, which swept through France, Germany and Switzerland…Read more

CEA issues second $150mn quake bond

The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has launched a sequel to its August debut cat bond, seeking $150mn from the latest Embarcadero Re transaction…Read more

Aon Benfield duo join Third Point Re

The head of Aon Benfield's investment banking group Rob Bredahl is joining start-up Third Point Re, sister publication The Insurance Insider has revealed this morning [20 January]…Read more

Capacity available in hard retro renewal

Pricing up, retentions up, unmodelled perils debated - but generally reinsurers completed placements…Read more

$5bn+ year forecast for hardening ILS market

Start-ups make splash at 1.1

Convergence exec Cavanagh promoted to Willis Re CEO

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On the up… ILW market set for growth

ILW volumes will rise 25% in 2012, predicts Willis Re's Henry Kingham. He looks at the factors that put the wind in his sails… Read more

Capital markets benefit from fragmented renewals

Reinsurance buyers are taking more interest in capital market solutions after a fragmented and difficult January renewal season, according to the two largest reinsurance brokers… Read more

Trading Risk Market Survey 2012

It's a bright forecast for 2012 as the annual Trading Risk Market Survey showed the convergence industry expects to continue to benefit from new investor inflows, rising pressure on property catastrophe rates and regulatory change… Read more

Mega-funds: friend or foe?

Is the ILS investor base becoming too top-heavy?… Read more

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Sign your name to it

Each month as we send Trading Risk out into the convergence world, I'll spend a few moments wondering what all our readers will make of the new edition - and then the post-deadline surge of relief will take over… Read more

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The Trading Floor interview: Simon Cloney

If retro underwriters could name their top three headaches of 2011, Trading Risk is willing to bet the list would include unmodelled losses, ‘cold spot' zones and aggregate covers. Broker Simon Cloney sells products that roll up all three, yet has emerged unscathed from the January renewals to tell Trading Risk the tale… Read more

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Trading Risk Market Survey 2012

It's a bright forecast for 2012 as the annual Trading Risk Market Survey showed the convergence industry expects to continue to benefit from new investor inflows, rising pressure on property catastrophe rates and regulatory change… Read more

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Insurance Insider Monte Carlo Roundtable 2011

When we gathered some of the industry's leading lights round a table in this great coastal retreat last year, we heard tales of how hefty H1 nat cat and man made losses might hasten the end of the latter stages of the late-soft market cycle… Read more

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Trading Risk Monte Carlo Roundtable 2011

The convergence community definitely had its moment in the sun at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous this year amid an increasingly cloudy outlook for the reinsurance market… Read more

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Trading Risk Monte Carlo Roundtable

Just months before our group of convergence savants sat in a windowless room in the Fairmont Hotel in Monte Carlo, a group of hungry, competitive young men were speeding through the tunnel underneath our very feet at eye-watering speeds of up to 200 mph… Read more

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