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Last month Trading Risk revealed that Credit Suisse is hoping to tap into the ILS market to help insure its operational risks, such as a possible cyber attack or a rogue trader incident.
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The task force established by the London Market Group to develop the UK as a centre for ILS transactions is facing competition from other "onshore" jurisdictions seeking to rival the established "offshore" ILS locations such as Bermuda and Guernsey.
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Trying to compare returns available from primary insurance business to the reinsurance market is like comparing apples to oranges.
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Investors waiting for a catastrophe event to improve rates before deploying capital into ILS may be failing to understand the fundamental value of the asset class, according to speakers at the Trading Risk New York Rendez-Vous.
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The creativity of the ILS market is increasing its value to reinsurance buyers and outweighing its mono-line focus on catastrophe risk as cedants increasingly push counterparties to write multiple lines of business.
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Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) will seek to bring new investors into Humboldt Re in the future but its growth will depend on market conditions, the firm's head of ILS Niklaus Hilti told Trading Risk.
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Proposed changes to AM Best's method of calculating capital adequacy for (re)insurers could boost demand for peak cat cover, particularly from regional US carriers.
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How will climate change impact ILS?
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The mix of cat bonds issued in 2015 is looking notably more diverse than last year as third quarter diversifier deals helped lessen the dominance of North American perils.
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At the recent Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, the ILS market sent out a clear message that it had come of age and is here to stay
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A group of sidecars followed by Trading Risk are on track to deliver annualised returns of 10.48 percent, according to data compiled from filings made by US fund managers Stone Ridge and Pioneer
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The 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has prompted a number of modelling firms to focus on US storm surge risk, with RMS and Karen Clark & Company (KCC) both releasing studies on the most vulnerable US cities.