June 2009/1

Global broker Aon Benfield has suspended its fundraising efforts for Aon’s investment management firm Global Insurance Strategies LLC (GIS), as it concentrates on Benfield-backed cat fund manag

Cat risk appetite showed signs of reappearing from the hedge fund community, as two alternative investment specialists unveiled forays into insurance-linked investments this month. Cartesian Capital

The ILS market is braced for upcoming changes to California earthquake models that may reduce the estimated hazard resulting from a temblor by up to 35 percent. Upcoming releases from the two main p

Oil and gas liability mutual Oil Casualty Insurance Ltd (OCIL)’s 2005 excess liability cat bond Avalon Re has once again extended the maturity date on its Class B and Class C notes to 9 Septemb

Nephila Capital has secured a new $35mn investment mandate from specialist fund manager AMP Capital Investors, further widening the audience for trading (re)insurance risk in the mainstream capital m

CCRIF into 3rd year with 10 percent rate cut Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield has confirmed that all 16 Caribbean member governments have renewed their catastrophe policies with the World Bank-sponso

Eurex, the leading European derivative exchange and clearing house, is to launch binary US hurricane derivatives on 29 June, complementing current over-the-counter (OTC) trades. The exchange –