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Record Breaking Cat Bond Levels; Good News For Carriers
First-half tallies of 2013 catastrophe bond issues have been coming in from reinsurers and brokers in recent months, with all suggesting that 2013 could be a record year of issuance. Swiss Re, Munich ...
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 ...
ILS Issuance Just Short Of Record For Second-Quarter 2013; Is Casualty Next?
Tallies of catastrophe bond issues for the first-half have been coming in from reinsurers and brokers over the last two weeks, with the numbers all suggesting that 2013 could be a record year of ...
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 ...
‘Breakaway’ Pricing Seen From Capital Markets Pressuring Traditional Re
With third-party investors putting increased levels of capital into catastrophe bonds, sidecars and collateralized reinsurance, pricing in the capital markets is now, for the first time, "decoupled" ...
Property Insurance Market Eyes New Entrants—From China, Berkshire
Industry executives speaking at an insurance conference recently discussed the potential market impact of the newest entrants to the U.S. property insurance market, with Chinese companies getting as ...Tokio Solution Management, GC Securities Create Private Cat Bond Platform For Smaller Capacity Buyers
Tokio Solution Management Ltd. and GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities Corp., have created a private catastrophe bond platform to meet the needs of an underserved segment of reinsurance ...
5 New Cat Bonds in Q1 Total $1.6B: Willis
The first quarter of 2013 saw $1.6 billion of new issuance in non-life capacity marketed through five catastrophe bond transactions, including three transactions marketed in the first quarter and ...