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One of my colleagues with an affection for Denis Kessler’s turn of phrase once labelled him the Beyonce of the reinsurance world.
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Markel has not actually come out and said what it plans to do with former top 10 ILS manager Markel Catco, but the likely money has to be on a gradual closure now that an overwhelming 91 percent of assets under management are due to be returned to investors, as claims development permits.
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After two years of volatility it’s not surprising to see reports that are urging the ILS market to find more harmonisation and standardisation.
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Is ILS a sufficient part of Lloyd’s vision for a future of increased efficiency and profitability? There were certainly overtures to alternative capital in the Lloyd’s prospectus launch this week.
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Perhaps it is not the perfect analogy for an event in Florida, but the famous failure of Devon Loch in the Grand National springs to mind.
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Earlier this month, Lane Financial speculated that higher Treasury yields would encourage investors to return to the cat bond fold.
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The relationship between Florida insurers and their reinsurers is obviously going through a rough patch. It makes you wonder whether the role of brokers this year might be akin to that of marriage counsellors.
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Is this both the best and worst of times for the ILS market?
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Why has ‘payback’ become a dirty word in the reinsurance markets?
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What does it say about the insurance market that for every new fund or facility that is launched as a passive or index tracker-style initiative, it seems that another existing one is unwound?
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Warm winter sun might have helped Miami’s case for bringing ILS folks to the city for one of its annual conferences a couple of weeks ago.
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The reinsurance industry spends a lot of time obsessing about risk modelling, but arguably its efforts to pin down ever more precise estimates of expected losses are let down by a 20th century approach to data handling.