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The concept of reinsurance market “payback” – higher premiums that follow major losses – might well be dead.
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Rate increases have mostly been limited to low attaching Floridian wind cover.
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The latest PCS loss number for Hurricane Harvey has edged up to $17.1bn, from a prior figure of $15.7bn, sources told Trading Risk.
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If ILS capital is designed to be the ultimate home for catastrophe risk, how far should asset managers look to hedge their investors' bets?
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Hiscox Re has introduced the first ever cyber industry loss warranty to the ILS and reinsurance markets.
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Sompo International has set up a $62mn sidecar, Blue Lotus Re, to provide cover supporting its global catastrophe reinsurance portfolio in 2018
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The Catco Reinsurance Opportunities Fund made a worse-than-forecast 27.6 percent loss for investors in 2017 after its fund manager significantly added to its wildfire reserves in December.
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The momentum for retro rate increases at the January renewals slowed at the end of last year, sources said, as lack of new demand and a smooth reload of lost capital meant increases fell short of expectations
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The value of City National Rochdale's wind ILW investments decreased by 31.4 percent between the end of July and the end of October 2017, its latest quarterly filing showed.
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A number of outsized third quarter losses at Lloyd's insurers has highlighted the London market's concentrated exposure to the 2017 hurricanes
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This year marked the 25th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew, a storm that would cost reinsurers $56bn if it recurred today, according to modelling company AIR Worldwide
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A number of ILS managers stand to benefit from so-called "window" industry loss warranty (ILW) covers, which means that their recoveries may rely on limited loss deterioration.