November 2009/1

Broker dealer Lane Financial reported the highest returning quarter in the history of the ILS market in Q3 2009, with its all cat bond index of 119 ILS transactions yielding 5.54 percent for the peri

The continued softening of property and casualty (P&C) (re)insurance rates has been pushed by updated earthquake and wind risk models, which have reduced loss estimates by up to 30 percent, according

Amlin-backed dedicated ILS investor Leadenhall Capital Partners has launched two $50mn Irish-based funds – believed to be the first Irish-based non-life ILS assets. The Value fund will invest i

Dutch life insurer AEGON completed a $900mn embedded value securitisation with investment bank JPMorgan, creating regulatory capital relief for its US operations. JPMorgan securitised $650mn of the i

Ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded the $750mn of notes in life (re)insurer Genworth Financial’s River Lake III XXX securitisation – assigning a developing outlook to the notes an

The governments of Malawi and Caribbean countries may be the next to access the World Bank’s new ILS template for developing countries, following the successful closure of the $290mn MultiCat M

Bermuda-domiciled (re)insurer AXIS Capital bemoaned longevity risk modelling as “unpredictable” and “inherently uncertain”, as it reported a $138mn fair value loss on a 2006 l