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The growth of risk transfer to the capital markets is being hindered by the “hand-made” approach of the convergence market and there should be a move towards standardised clauses and cont
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As I prepare for the annual Trading Risk executive briefing in New York later this month - called "After the storm... strategies for trading reinsurance risk in 2010" - it is encouraging to see the sh
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Industry loss warranty (ILW) buyers are returning to the market after a very quiet trading season, seeking cheap stop-gap cover for the remainder of 2009, according to broker-dealers. Swiss Re's Patt
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Leading ILS investor Clariden Leu is seeking to use the securitisation power of its Swiss bank franchise to transform insurance risk into much-needed investments for its flagship Cat Bond Fund. The $
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Disappointing trading volumes in the brave new world of insurance-linked derivatives have pushed the world’s largest interdealer broker ICAP plc and insurance intermediary JLT to close their jo
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Interdealer Tradition Re is partnering with Lloyd’s broker Alwen Hough Johnson (AHJ) to access the Lloyd’s and London markets for specialised retro products, including industry loss warra
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Interdealer broker Tradition Re is partnering with Lloyd’s broker Alwen Hough Johnson (AHJ) to access the Lloyd’s and London markets for specialised retro products, including industry los
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The world's largest interdealer-broker, ICAP plc, and insurance intermediary JLT have closed ICAP-JLT Ltd – their insurance-linked derivatives joint venture – as part of a restructuring w
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Hurricane Bill strengthened to a Category 4 storm this morning, with wind speeds of up to 135 mph, to reach a CME Hurricane Index (CHI) value of 12.7, according to broker-dealer Tradition Re’s
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Cat derivative trading remained quiet yesterday, as the first hurricane of the 2009 US wind season strengthened to Category 2 in the mid-Atlantic and set course for Bermuda and the east coast of the
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IFEX has added to its suite of event-linked futures (ELF), listing Eastern seaboard and North East US tropical wind contracts on the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE). IFEX – which trades
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In an extract from the report – the firm’s European head of capital markets Des Potter discusses the pros and cons of non-US peril transactions. US wind is the largest global peril in the
