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Insurers of the future are likely to move to more of a banking model by sourcing risk to transfer directly to institutional investors instead of holding onto the bulk of their liabilities, according to the president of TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory
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Transferring a broader range of risks from outside the catastrophe market would help develop better partnerships between insurance carriers and ILS capital providers, Generali's reinsurance buyer Mirko Sartori has argued
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Generali's Horse Capital I was named winner of the Non-Life Transaction Award of the Year at the 2017 Trading Risk awards
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Two major US sidecar investors, Pioneer and Stone Ridge, grew their assets by more than $500mn overall in the quarter ended 31 January 2017
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Swiss Re said that Cyclone Debbie had caused more Australian commercial and corporate (re)insurance claims than previous local storms, and put industry losses from the event at $1.3bn
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High volumes of new deals kick-started further activity in the secondary cat bond market and gave yields a small boost in the first quarter, but 2017 ILS returns remain well below last year's levels
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European ILS managers may have to contend with extra compliance costs following the UK's departure from the EU, according to lawyers
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ILS capacity has acted as the equaliser of Florida hurricane rates. It chased after the extra margin that reinsurers built into their calculations in taking on their peak hurricane risk, with the logical result of helping to erode the margin
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Dutch pension fund PFZW has made new allocations to XL-owned manager New Ocean and to Munich Re for 2017
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Negotiations are already well underway in the run-up to the 1 June Florida reinsurance renewals, as ILS market underwriters push to secure participations with the state's stronger performers
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The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have added a request for the UK's largest regulated insurers to provide information on their reinsurance from alternative markets in their latest general insurance stress test.
