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The momentum for retro rate increases at the January renewals slowed at the end of last year, sources said, as lack of new demand and a smooth reload of lost capital meant increases fell short of expectations
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There was a fresh surge of reinsurer sidecar launches during the January renewals, in a signal that further carriers are belatedly recognising the value of managing third-party capital
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There was a fresh surge of reinsurer sidecar launches during the January renewals, in a signal that further carriers are belatedly recognising the value of managing third-party capital
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A group of sidecars tracked by Trading Risk took losses of 13.0 percent on average between July and October as the fallout from hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria took its toll
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Sequant Re; First Republic; Private equity buy-up; PGGM's Leo expansion
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There was a wide spread of returns among cat bond fund managers in 2017, with a small average loss of 0.44 percent recorded for the year
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Nephila Capital's equity investment in new managing general agency (MGA) Volante Global will not see its ILS funds taking on any underwriting risk sourced by the start-up, but the catastrophe specialist has not ruled this out in the future
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The recent launch of Lumen Re means the top three ILS fund managers now have in-house access to rated paper, highlighting the continuing convergence of the ILS and reinsurance markets
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The market's leading ILS managers grew their assets under management (AuM) by almost 10 percent in the second half of 2017, highlighting the ease of the post-loss reload
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Argo has let the senior tranches of its 2013 Loma Re cat bond mature, as it continues to imply in its latest loss report that the riskiest layer of the deal will take at least a $19.5mn loss, sources said
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Private wealth advisory firm First Republic Securities has set up and raised $77.7mn for a new reinsurance fund, according to US SEC filings