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Scor has become the latest (re)insurer to set up its own insurance-linked investment fund, setting aside $100mn of seed capital for a dedicated fund that will be known as Atropos.

Swiss-based Plenum Investments has started investing through its new $5mn Cat Bond Fund.

Captives manager Kane Group is looking to expand into ILS and industry loss warranties (ILWs) in Qatar after receiving a warrant to set up in the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), according to reports from Captive Review.

The capital markets and reinsurers should collaborate to provide protection against extreme systemic risks beyond the catastrophe markets, Munich Re said at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.

The first of four European windstorm bonds anticipated in Q4 2010 - Groupama's Green Valley - priced below guidance, sparking more debate on investors' pricing thresholds for ILS.

In our regular ILW quarterly update, Willis Re executive director Henry Kingham discusses the speculative nature of ILW trading...

Paradex Japan launched; Weather hedges pay out; WRMA warned on volcanic fallout

A mid-October meeting will determine the future business plan for trading platform IFEX, which could launch European windstorm derivative products for this year's season.

Industry loss warranty (ILW) buyers have been seeking to protect 2010 profits from potentially costly Q4 catastrophes by purchasing short-dated contracts to year-end, Trading Risk can reveal.

The big three modelling firms, AIR, RMS and Eqecat, fiercely defend their independence from the commercial impact of their risk models, with commentators lauding modellers' "considerable integrity" in devising their own methodologies.

As the state of New York mulls plans to funnel compulsory catastrophe insurance premiums into its own wind pool, existing quasi-governmental plans are buying more reinsurance protection from the capital markets.

Hurricane model update; Hannover sponsors earthquake model; Perils updates Xynthia loss; Funds dig Down Under