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19 May 2012

Reinsurer hedges $4mn Florida wind exposure in CHI dutch auction

10 March 2010

US reinsurance broker Tradition Re completed a $4mn derivative dutch auction on 2 March to hedge an unnamed reinsurer's Florida wind exposure, in the first transaction of its kind.

Tradition brokered the auction, in which protection sellers - including (re)insurers and financial markets participants - submitted prices at which they would sell the CME Hurricane Index (CHI) Florida Seasonal Accumulated binary option with a CHI value of 22.

The protection buyer paid a rate on line (RoL) equivalent of 11.43...


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