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London-based ILS investment manager Securis Investment Partners has hired former Swiss Re trader Al Selius to start a New York office. Selius will be based in New York and will join the non-life orig

Swiss Re is close to launching a fourth extreme mortality bond in its Vita series, spurred by a deepening of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, Trading Risk understands. Although the target size of Vita IV

Deutsche Bank is developing a highly liquid, highly transparent insurance-linked instrument which would provide mainstream investors with an alternative to cat bonds, Trading Risk understands. The ta

Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded two tranches of notes on Brit Insurance’s 2007 cat swap deal, Fremantle Ltd, as the likelihood of a loss diminishes while the transac

Moody's Investors Service is keeping a $67.5mn tranche of the 2008 Nelson Re cat bond from private equity-backed Swiss reinsurer Glacier Re under review for possible downgrade. The agency said that t