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The first week back at the desk after the reinsurance industry's annual Monte Carlo gathering can be a long and difficult slog for executives, having powered through dozens of half-hour meetings and evening receptions in sunny Monaco
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What a difference a week makes.
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Sompo Canopius plans to launch an ILS vehicle to support its catastrophe reinsurance book for 2018, according to sources.
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Hurricane Irma will be a major test for the ILS market even though it has taken a more favourable westerly turn for the reinsurance industry, straying away from Miami.
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ILS managers are sounding out investors to raise fresh capital to deploy after Hurricane Irma, as buyers of back-up cover move to line up capacity.
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Stone Ridge Asset Management has posted high single-digit drops to its two reinsurance funds this week as Hurricane Irma heads towards Miami.
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Schroders-owned ILS manager Secquaero has won a significant $200mn+ mandate, according to sources, as a number of companies target growth in this sector.
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ILS market practitioners have welcomed changes made to the final proposals for a UK ILS framework, but noted that further key details on how the rules will be applied are yet to emerge.
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Alternative reinsurance growth; ILS rankings; Cyber loss potential; Egon loss estimates rise; Hannover Re fronting expansion; PIC reinsures £1bn longevity risk...
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Guy Carpenter said it hoped to expand the retrocession and ILS capacity in the Asia Pacific region as it opened a new retro unit led by Simon Hughes
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The support provided by London ILS manager Leadenhall Capital Partners to life insurance start-up Gryphon Group Holdings is connected to an embedded value (EV) transaction, Trading Risk understands.
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Swiss Re has bolstered its retro support from the Sector Re sidecar by around $100mn in the past year to take the vehicle's total capacity to $492mn, Trading Risk understands.
