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As projections for industry insured losses from Sandy creep upwards towards $25bn, the impact on both the traditional and non-traditional reinsurance markets inevitably looks to be rising.
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Capital market providers are largely creating new reinsurance demand rather than carving out capacity from the traditional market, Nephila Capital co-founder Frank Majors said at an ILS panel hosted by Munich Re at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous last month
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Absent a shock loss in the final months of the year, premium rates are expected to slide at the key 1 January renewal, when upwards of half of all property catastrophe reinsurance business renews, Trading Risk understands
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The increasing role of the capital markets in the reinsurance sector was one of the major themes of the 2012 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, but ratings agencies differed on the alternative market's impact
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Nephila Capital co-founder Frank Majors warned that reinsurers face a number of potential pitfalls as they target the funds management arena
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The catastrophe retrocession market has grown by nearly 20 percent over the past two years and will deploy a record $9bn of indemnity limit over the course of 2012, Aon Benfield estimates.
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ILS market participants are predicting substantial growth over the coming few years after enjoying a bumper 2012, which is encouraging more and more traditional reinsurers to dip their toes into the sector.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher associate Matthew Stern looks at the impact of US judicial decisions on the ILS market
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US property catastrophe pricing showed further signs of abating at the 1 July renewals, with reinsurance rate rises cooling after a year of increases and evidence emerging of a less favourable retrocession market
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Reinsurers are revising their view of the role they play in the convergence markets as they increasingly target third party funds management business, according to various commentators
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Luzi Hitz and Eduard Held argue that the market now has the building blocks in place to trade UK flood risk.
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With the mid-year renewals in full swing, Trading Risk explores the convergence markets' inexorable march into underwriting reinsurance risk.