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Broker taps $1bn for new cat fund

Former reinsurance broker Tony Belisle has secured a draw-down facility of more than $1bn from institutional investors to launch a collateralised reinsurance cat fund on Bermuda…Read more

Don’t sell ILS on double-digit returns, managers warn

Cat bond fund managers may have oversold what the sector can deliver to institutional investors, according to some presenters at Wednesday's Standard & Poor's ILS conference held in London…Read more

Cat bond sales may struggle to reach $4bn; S&P

Cat bond sales may struggle to reach $4bn this year in the absence of a major disaster, Standard & Poor's (S&P) analyst Dennis Sugrue said at a conference in London today (8 September)…Read more

Secquaero joins investor search Down Under

ILS fund manager Secquaero Advisors has signed a deal with Australian boutique advisor Plus Capital to market its funds, joining the line-up of ILS managers keen to take advantage of the sophisticated institutional investment scene in Australia…Read more

Nelson Re downgraded on Glacier wind-down

Moody's Investor Service has downgraded the outlook on Glacier Re's 2008 Nelson Re catastrophe bond on the risk of strategic default after the Swiss reinsurer placed its business in run-off…Read more

Four Euro wind cat bonds expected

Up to four European wind bonds are tipped to come to the market in the second half of the year, helping to take total issuance volumes to the $5bn level predicted for 2010…Read more

Secretive $250mn Merna Re III sold to single fund

Ramseier targets $200mn+ funds at new venture

Low Earl losses forecast but uncertainty remains

News analysis

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In the eye of the storm

Swiss Re traders Patti Guatteri and Mitchell Mintz walk us through the opportunities for trading (re)insurance risk during a live storm… Read more

Weather market hopes for sunnier future

As if hedging against Mother Nature wasn't a tricky enough business, weather derivatives dealers have been hard hit by the global market turbulence over the past two years… Read more

Retro: the evolving landscape

Aon Benfield's deputy CEO of Global ReSpeciality, Daniel Burrows, discusses how capital markets have helped to mould the shape of today's retro market… Read more

Libor debate hots up

As 2010 develops into a healthy year for the cat bond market and US government bond yields reach new lows, some players are leaping on increasing confidence in the markets to push for a return to Libor-linked structures… Read more

TR Comment

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Too flexible?

The flexibility of capital is much vaunted as a positive side effect of convergence, and I tend to agree… Read more

Trading Places

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Carter crosses Atlantic

Koller joins Clariden

Citi rebuilds its ILS team

Interviews

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The Trading Floor: Brian Tobben

Reinsurer PartnerRe leverages its catastrophe and life underwriting expertise as an active ILS investor. Brian Tobben, head of PartnerRe's ILS unit, discusses his view of the convergence markets… Read more

Research & Supplements

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Trading Risk Roundtable Winter 2009/10

Trading Risk hosted its first roundtable in late 2009; an event which we anticipate becoming just as an established a fixture in the convergence industry calendar as the annual Trading Risk Awards… Read more

2009 Annual Review; 2010 Preview

Welcome to the Trading Risk 2009 Annual Review and 2010 Preview - the definitive guide to the year that has just happened, and to what lies ahead in the evolving convergance landscape… Read more

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