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  • Global insurance broker Marsh has launched a parametric insurance product based on risk modelling firm Risk Management Solutions’ (RMS) WindX parametric index. The product, called WindX-SI, can
  • Ratings agency AM Best is extending its insurance linked securities (ILS) rating methodology to include assessment of the basis risk carried by industry loss arranties (ILWs). In a statement, the fir
  • Swiss Re Global Market’s environmental and commodity markets division has entered into an emissions reduction purchase agreement with Hebei Construction Investment New Energy Co Ltd. Through th
  • The pioneering ILS Avalon Re was struck by a rash of downgrades following news that a third energy loss could hit the cat bond. Following notifications of claims arising from a New York steam pipe ex
  • The embedded value (EV) sector of the life insurance linked securities (ILS) sector is a “high growth area”, commented Michael Symonds, SVP at Lehman Brothers, at the 2008 SIFMA ILS confe
  • Dresdner Kleinwort-owned special purpose reinsurer Bridge Re, has closed its three year $182.5mn Puma Capital retro cat sidecar to new business after just one year of operation due to weaker market c
  • Hannover Re CEO Wilhelm Zeller said the reinsurer will look to continue with its multi-year K5 sidecar when it comes up for renewal at year-end. Zeller added that Hannover Re had never been as well p
  • Benfield Group's corporate finance arm Benfield Advisory has developed a new parametric reinsurance product, aimed at transferring workers’ compensation catastrophe (WCC) coverage to reinsurers
  • Outstanding non-life insurance linked securities (ILS) limits could reach $70- 100bn within the next 10 years, according to senior market commentators. In a lively discussion on the future of the non
  • At current pricing levels, it would take a $30-50bn ground-up property loss to reverse the slide in traditional property cat reinsurance rates, according to Aon Re Global. The broker forecast rate-on
  • Bermudian reinsurer Bridge Re, which is wholly owned by investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort, has closed its three-year $182.5mn Puma Capital retro cat sidecar to new business after just one year of o
  • The insurance linked securities (ILS) sector, thought by some to be the antidote to the traditional (re)insurance market cycle, is "merely a reflection" of the underlying market, according to recent