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The cat bond market is likely to spring back from the shrinking that occurred in the first half of 2016, according to panellists at the Trading Risk Monte Carlo roundtable.
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Currency boosts RBS in ILS; Stone Ridge looks to Lloyd's; ILS Advisers gain
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Canadian asset manager Crosswinds has founded a specialty reinsurance company named Crosswinds Re to add to its involvement in the Florida (re)insurance market.
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Leadenhall Capital Partners obtained a BBB+ rating from Standard & Poor's (S&P) for two private cat bonds, in a move that will help the ILS manager demonstrate that it has a portfolio capitalised to an investment-grade level.
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Cat bond user base to shift; Axa wary on cat bonds
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Reinsurance buyers could have more success in lowering rates by opening up all layers of a programme to ILS capital, rather than just trying to push minimum cat bond rates down at the top end of programmes
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Reinsurers sought to declare that the market was nearing a pricing floor as the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous kicked off the traditional lead-up to the January renewal season
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Specialist investors continue to dominate the ILS landscape but hedge funds have increased their participation after buying new issuance in the past year in response to higher-yielding deals on offer, Aon Securities said in its annual review of the sector.
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Cat bond upsizing climbed to new heights for the past year in the third quarter as the $925mn in final quarterly volume of public 144a ILS transactions came in at almost three times the $350mn originally targeted.
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Recent research has overturned the traditional assumption that there is no correlation between earthquake risk along the northern and southern parts of the San Andreas Fault in California
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Solvency II could drive increased activity in the life ILS sector as insurance companies are forced to hold more capital and look at ways of de-risking that capital, according to leading life experts.
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Parametric solutions could offer a way for the ILS market to expand into cyber risk, according to Rick Welsh, CEO at Lloyd's managing general agency (MGA) Sciemus
