February 2017/1

Absolute cat bond spreads fell by almost 8 percent in the first month of 2017, according to data from RMS

Aetna cleared its latest Vitality Re health insurance bond at a new low in the past month as investors awaited more news on what broker-dealers said was a good pipeline of upcoming deals

An update to RMS's medium-term hurricane model will result in 8-10 percent reductions to projected annual average losses from US hurricanes for the typical cat bond market risk level of 1-in-100- or 250-year return periods

Florida Citizens Property Insurance CEO Barry Gilway said the insurer expected to buy only $1.1bn to $1.3bn of total reinsurance limit in the mid-year 2017 renewals

Convergence may be a preferred term for the ILS markets, but arguably it is becoming just as much of a misnomer for today's industry as the now outmoded "alternative reinsurance"

ILS funds and reinsurers on IAG's aggregate reinsurance programme will bear a notable loss for the second year running

City National Rochdale has rebranded its new reinsurance interval fund and disclosed that it will invest its assets via Bermudian manager Iris Re.