September 2008/1
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Moody’s Investors Service further downgraded the unwrapped tranches of beleaguered Scottish Re’s $2.1bn XXX reserve life securitisation, Ballantyne Re, citing mark-to-market losses in the
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Reinsurance broker Carvill saw growth in trading in its hurricane index on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) on news of the contingent liquidity deal struck between the Florida Hurricane Catastro
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Catastrophe futures trading platforms have reported some volatility in the first live season of trading, with more than $135mn limit equivalent of exchange traded contracts, and “multiples&rdqu
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Brokers in the secondary market for insurance linked securities (ILS) executed a number of bid lists in August, as macro hedge funds chased higher returns in other, crisis-struck sectors of the capit
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US reinsurance broker Towers Perrin has launched a capital markets operation specialising in risk-linked securities, retirement risk transfer transactions and asset risk management services. The unit
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Specialist environmental inter-dealer broker Evolution Markets has launched a new division for trading and structuring catastrophe derivatives following its entry into the weather derivatives market.