Insight and Intelligence on (Re)insurance Convergence with the Capital Markets

11 September 2010

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Retro: the evolving landscape

2 September 2010

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

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Weather market hopes for sunnier future

2 September 2010

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

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In the eye of the storm

2 September 2010

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

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Libor debate hots up

2 September 2010

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

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Hard ILW market bucks industry trend

15 July 2010

In our regular ILW quarterly update, Willis Re executive director Henry Kingham sees strong Q2 ILS issuance starving ILW buyers of capital markets capacity. ILWs now offer a hard market haven for those with the cash to invest… Read more

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Cat bond investors; a moving feast

15 July 2010

As one of the industry's leading cat bond managers with a global capital market reach, Goldman Sachs has a unique perspective on the ILS market. Here, the firm's co-head of America's securitisation, Michael Millette, analyses the changing face of cat bond investors… Read more

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Batten down the hatches?

18 June 2010

Karen Clark, of the eponymous firm, is a leading expert in catastrophe risk assessment and management, working for more than 25 years in the field. Clark developed the first hurricane catastrophe model and founded the first catastrophe modelling company, Applied Insurance Research (AIR), in 1987. She shares her thoughts on the 2010 hurricane forecasts… Read more

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Excess capacity breaks Florida resolve at 1.6

18 June 2010

Despite talk of resilience and risk picking in the Sunshine State, the dynamics of a traditional property casualty reinsurance market full of surplus capacity held sway at the key 1.6 Florida renewal… Read more

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Collateralised reinsurers join the mainstream

18 June 2010

The key US cat renewal date of 1 June this year - which was characterised by excess traditional capacity and falling rates - served to underline the steady presence of collateralised reinsurance in the property cat market… Read more

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Cat fund sellers become buyers

18 June 2010

Dedicated cat funds - usually considered protection sellers of industry loss warranty (ILW) and cat derivatives contracts - have become buyers of cover in an effort to hedge heavy US wind exposures and potential Deepwater Horizon losses… Read more

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