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On 23 April, the US Treasury took its first action since 2003 to curb so-called "hedge fund reinsurance companies".
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Alternative reinsurers and cat bond investors received $589mn in premiums ceded by the top 10 Florida personal and commercial residential insurers in 2014, according to data collected by Trading Risk.
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The two leading reinsurer-managed funds platforms posted a year-on-year fall in fee income during the first quarter, reflecting the impact of running smaller sidecars.
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What does "sensitivity case" modelling imply for quake risk?
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Insurance companies interested in issuing private placement catastrophe bonds offered under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act may benefit from streamlining the structure of a bond, but they must be careful not to strip away important structural elements for capital markets risk transfer.
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Reinsurance remained the key earnings driver for (re)insurance carriers in 2014 even as many chased growth in the specialty insurance market, where rates are under less competitive pressure.
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Stone Ridge Asset Management earned a 4.5 percent average return from its continuing sidecar investments in the three months from November 2014 to January 2015, according to Trading Risk records.
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Cat bond issuance in the first quarter of 2015 hit a record $1.86bn, rising 21 percent year-on-year to comfortably beat the $1.54bn placed in Q1 2014, according to Trading Risk records.
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The volume of five-year cat bonds issued in 2014 rose significantly year-on-year, despite just a few such deals being concluded, Trading Risk data shows.
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When the Gator Re cat bond almost triggered last year it surprised more than a few in the market
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On 22 September 2014, the US Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) gave notice that they intend to issue new regulations that would limit certain tax benefits many US corporations claimed were available from transactions in which they "inverted" or were taken over by a non-US corporation
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Panellists at the Sifma IRLS 2015 conference in New York this month were relatively bullish on the outlook for new hedge fund reinsurance start-ups, as former Lancashire founder Richard Brindle launched fundraising for his new vehicle shortly after the event.