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RenRe Launching Casualty, Specialty Venture for ILS Investors

With institutional investors providing the bulk of the capital, RenaissanceRe Holdings has announced the creation of a new joint venture dedicated to casualty and specialty risks. Launched with $475 ...

ILS for Casualty: The Backstory of Ledger Investing

In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew's $15.5 billion in insured losses in 1992, insurance-linked securities emerged to distribute a portion of future property-catastrophe risk to investors. At the ...

Casualty: The Next ILS Frontier?

For the last several years, participants in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market have frequently discussed the question of market expansion. In a market with consistently declining property ...

Hedging Systemic Risk in Casualty Reserves with Insurance-Linked Securities

Insurance-linked securities are often used to hedge an insurer's exposure to catastrophic property losses, but the casualty insurance market is just beginning to recognize the potential of ILS ...

Casualty ILS: The Time Has Come

The accelerating convergence of insurance and reinsurance with capital markets and the resulting effect on the traditional insurance and reinsurance business model have topped the insurance news ...