Markets
Reinsurers Are Ripe For M&A: Nomura
The reinsurance market is ripe for consolidation because the sector continues to soften, with alternative capacity in at least one area set to double over the next few years, a Nomura Equity Research ...
Looser Terms Luring Non-Buyers Back Into Casualty Reinsurance Market
While it might take an innovative clash cover to lure Chubb's reinsurance buyer back into the casualty reinsurance market, other cedents are enticed by higher ceding commissions and multiline and ...
Bipartisan TRIA Renewal Bill Advances Out of Senate Committee
The effort to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, or TRIA, moved forward on June 3 as a bipartisan bill advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee with a few amendments attached intended to ...
How Cat Bond Investors Think About Yield
Will catastrophe bonds still be interesting to investors when overall yields on investments go higher? John Seo, the co-founder and managing principal of Fermat Capital Management LLC, provided the ...
A Conversation with Fermat Capital’s John Seo: The Evolution of Cat Bonds
John Seo, a pioneer in the catastrophe bond space, uses advanced technical models to assess the risk that investors will take on through portfolios of insurance-linked securities. But even simple ...
U.S. Officials Warn Transporting Crude Oil By Rail May Still Be Unsafe
Oil industry studies concluding that Bakken crude oil is safe to move by rail under existing standards may underestimate the dangers of the fuel and should not be the last word, U.S. lawmakers and ...
World Cup Corporate Sponsors May Risk Cyber-Attack
The hacker group Anonymous is preparing a cyber-attack on corporate sponsors of the World Cup in Brazil to protest the lavish spending on the soccer games in a country struggling to provide basic ...