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Traditional market rates are heading downward as the key 1.1 renewal season approaches. Willis Capital Markets & Advisory managing director Bill Dubinsky explores the potential upside for the convergence market.
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The $25bn-$30bn of capital that makes up the Trading Risk universe plays a far more significant role in the property and casualty (P&C) sector than its proportion of the industry's overall capital would suggest.
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The first of four European windstorm bonds anticipated in Q4 2010 - Groupama's Green Valley - priced below guidance, sparking more debate on investors' pricing thresholds for ILS.
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In our regular ILW quarterly update, Willis Re executive director Henry Kingham discusses the speculative nature of ILW trading...
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The big three modelling firms, AIR, RMS and Eqecat, fiercely defend their independence from the commercial impact of their risk models, with commentators lauding modellers' "considerable integrity" in devising their own methodologies.
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As the state of New York mulls plans to funnel compulsory catastrophe insurance premiums into its own wind pool, existing quasi-governmental plans are buying more reinsurance protection from the capital markets.
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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.
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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.
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Swiss Re traders Patti Guatteri and Mitchell Mintz walk us through the opportunities for trading (re)insurance risk during a live storm
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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.
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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...
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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...