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Trading Risk view: investor fatigue
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How do ILS investors know whether they’re being paid enough for shouldering catastrophe risks?
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Apparently, some broking firms have recently been rolling out training to their younger staff on how to broke in a hard market – which is quite striking in itself, given that hard markets were meant to be a relic of the past.
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The ILS market is often presented as the player in the (re)insurance industry with the deepest pockets, with access to trillions of pension fund wealth in worldwide bank vaults.
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Last year’s catastrophe losses were exactly the kind of disaster event that made it easy for ILS managers and reinsurers to pitch to investors for fresh capital and to succeed in delivering the “great ILS reload” at the year-end of 2017.
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The world of so-called collateralised reinsurance has always been a bit of a misnomer as significant volume is transacted behind several rated fronts.
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I don’t know how widely known Kellogg’s “Just Right” cereal may be outside the antipodean market, but it has a marketing slogan that came to mind when I was thinking about reinsurance reserves this week, believe it or not.
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Hurricane Michael’s losses will contribute to a scrappy year for reinsurers and ILS firms.
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M&A is once again at the forefront of industry minds, as Scor and RenaissanceRe have been fending off bidders and activist investors in recent weeks.
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A gloomy pub in Lime Street, EC3 – the kind where light barely penetrates stained glass windows, hiding any grubby floors – is an apt metaphor for the opacity of the reinsurance markets.
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Broker distribution facilities have made a comeback in recent years as intermediaries seek new ways to streamline operations and boost fee income.
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Standard philosophy is that the boundaries between the traditional and “alternative” reinsurance markets have now entirely dissolved as each have intertwined.