September 2014/1

ILS funds have been promised a busy pipeline of deals in Q4 following a quiet end to the third quarter, with just one deal in the market ahead of the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous

Aviation rates are poised to rise after a year of heavy losses for the niche insurance market, with Brit Insurance CEO Mark Cloutier predicting rates could increase by up to 50 percent.

The Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) is set to issue a second Bosphorus Re earthquake catastrophe bond but is looking to switch from a parametric to an indemnity trigger, Trading Risk can reveal

Favourable rates pushed the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) to top up its traditional reinsurance cover in August after its $150mn 2011 Embarcadero Re cat bond lapsed at the end of July, sources said

Catastrophe bond investors and cedants typically have limited visibility of forthcoming transactions, due to now-repealed US securities law restrictions on general solicitation that have enforced radio silence on participants until a deal is formally launched.

One of the questions the reinsurance market has been grappling with over the past year is how to make a "strategic sidecar" work

Lloyd's insurers Amlin and Catlin both highlighted the strength of catastrophe rates in comparison to pre-2011 prices in their interim results, despite a significant drop in rates over the past two years.

Leadenhall Capital Partners CEO Luca Albertini said that the fund manager's allocation rates on 2014 reinsurance programmes doubled from the previous year's renewals.

Arch chairman, president and CEO Dinos Iordanou said that its investment in Watford Re will broaden its offering to brokers and clients, rather than cannibalise existing business.

London-based ILS fund manager Securis Investment Partners is launching a new fund that will target the Lloyd's market by providing capital to syndicates, Trading Risk can reveal

A number of reinsurers have highlighted new or improved retro purchases in 2014 as one of the ways they are combatting the soft market.

Munich Re is in the early stages of marketing a new sidecar to investors that it hopes will be a much larger replacement for the $63mn Eden Re vehicle, Trading Risk understands