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There is "unshakeable sentiment" that reinsurers and ILS investors will take significant cat losses this hurricane season, according to Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA)'s ILS head Bill Dubinsky
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Stone Ridge Asset Management reinvested a total of $172mn in various 2016 Sector Re issuances in April, up from $157.4mn pledged to the Swiss Re vehicle in 2015.
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Greater transparency in the ILS industry would benefit cedants as well as investors, according to Eveline Takken-Somers, investment director at PGGM.
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The introduction of earthquake insurance in China for the retail and residential sectors offers the ILS market "huge potential," Secquaero's chairman Dirk Lohmann told participants at the Guernsey ILS Insight event in Zurich yesterday (7 July).
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Leadenhall Capital Partners and Amtrak were among the winners at the 2016 Trading Risk awards, which were held in London last month.
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The alternative sector could lift its share of the cat market from just under 20 percent currently to more than a third by 2020, according to Michael Stahel, partner and portfolio manager at LGT ILS Partners.
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Reinsurers need to evolve beyond the equity and debt structures of the past to succeed in the "new world order," said Everest Re chief underwriting officer John Doucette, speaking at the Trading Risk Convergence London conference on 16 June.
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Passporting rights will be crucial for UK ILS managers and bankers after the country voted to leave the European Union (EU), according to Robert Cannon, special counsel at legal firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
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News that Gator Re is almost 70 percent of the way to reaching its trigger point has put aggregate modelling back in the spotlight.
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Brexit market volatility could give a minor boost of $1bn-$2bn to investor inflows into the ILS market, Fermat Capital Management co-founder John Seo said.
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Hedge fund re model cracks; ILS rates gain 1.6%; US June storms cost $350mn; PCS cat index; Gen Re partners with TransRe; CSU lifts storm forecast; Gator Re value; China cat insurance
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Only three ILS funds featured on the restructured traditional reinsurance programme bought by Florida Citizens Property Insurance this year, down from half a dozen last year.
