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Markel Catco said it had deployed its 2017 portfolio for the London-listed Catco Reinsurance Opportunities Fund at similar risk levels to 2016, with its maximum return in line with last year's target at 16 percent.
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MS Amlin has appointed Ly Lam as head of strategy for reinsurance, reporting to global managing director of reinsurance James Few
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Further detail has emerged on RenaissanceRe's new $140mn Fibonacci Re vehicle, which has been described as a hybrid cat bond/sidecar facility
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Alternative risk transfer transactions conducted by insurers in Hong Kong must now be approved by the regulator, following a new guidance note which came into effect on 1 January.
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Use of leverage by insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers is growing and could boost the availability of reinsurance limit from the market in the coming year, according to the latest ILS market update from Willis Capital Markets and Advisory (WCMA).
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Average ILS fund returns totalled 5.18 percent for 2016, according to the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index
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The earthquakes that hit central Italy in late October last year are now expected to generate a property insurance market loss of EUR125mn ($134.2mn), according to loss aggregating agency Perils
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Slow regulatory approval timeframes under the proposed London market ILS framework would be a "real hindrance" to setting up a competitive cat bond centre, according to law firm Ashurst
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The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has provided early calculations of the disaster costs that states could be required pick up before they are eligible for federal assistance, in plans that could encourage more risk transfer to the reinsurance or ILS markets.
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Rates on loss-free retrocession programmes fell between 2.5 to 5.0 percent at the start of 2017, JLT Re estimated in a retrospective report on the 1 January renewals period released today.
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The cat bond market should see more new business in 2017, Aon Securities said as it forecast $8bn of issuance for the year ahead.
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AIR Worldwide will provide casualty modelling solutions in addition to property insurance analysis after parent company Verisk Analytics purchased Arium, a company specialising in liability risk modelling.
