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19 May 2012

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USAA adds $40mn aggregate cover to ResRe 2012

USAA is set to close its Residential Re 2012 cat bond at $200mn after successfully tapping the market for a $40mn tranche of high-risk annual aggregate cover against multiple US perils, Trading Risk can reveal…Read more

Capital markets take 10-15% cat reinsurance market share

Capital market investors provide about 10-15 percent of the $220bn-$250bn of global catastrophe reinsurance capacity, according to estimates from brokers and bankers…Read more

Retro conditions may see Upsilon extended

RenaissanceRe's temporary retro sidecar Upsilon Re is likely to continue writing business into 2013 after launching at the start of this year, the property cat specialist said…Read more

Finalists announced...

We are delighted to announce the shortlisted companies and candidates for the Trading Risk Awards 2012…Read more

Leadenhall hires analyst to build on expansion

Leadenhall Capital Partners has hired Simon Mason as an analyst to help with portfolio management and risk management…Read more

Scor adds new EUR75mn contingent capital tranche

Global reinsurer Scor has topped-up the amount of event-driven contingent capital it can draw down on in response to large natural catastrophe losses to EUR 150mn, having triggered the first EUR75mn of its 2010 facility last year…Read more

Not all collateralised cat reinsurers are equal

Cat bond issuance could reach $7bn in 2012; Guy Carpenter

Travelers seeks $150mn indemnity cover

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Hedging bets on new start-ups

Industry investors said recent reinsurer start-ups such as Third Point Re and PaCRe might work for their hedge fund backers but questioned the rationale for other investors, speaking at an event hosted by sister publication The Insurance Insider this month… Read more

The changing face of ILS governance

Charles Collis and Michael Frith from Conyers Dill & Pearman look at the moving currents of "hard-wired" ILS structures… Read more

Rate rise cracks show for mid-year renewals

Most reinsurers are still talking up the mid-year US property cat market and insisting that the 10-15 percent rate increases seen at 1 January can be replicated, but the first cracks in the façade of market confidence have become apparent… Read more

Generalists drawn to cat bond universe

ILS fund managers may have been raking in new capital over the past year but their market share as cat bond buyers is declining as activity among generalist investors picks up… Read more

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Sweet smell of success…

So many cat bond deals upsize these days that you start to wonder if cat bond distributors are pursuing some kind of McDonald's marketing strategy to make the deal look successful in print… Read more

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Trading Floor Interview: Scor Alternative Investments

The start-up team explain how they are aiming to distinguish their model and where they think the ILS market should be diversifying… 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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