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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 ...
NC Residual Market Prepped For Storms With $500M In Cat Bonds, HO Rate Hikes
North Carolina's two residual homeowners insurance markets have jointly issued $500 million in pre-event catastrophe bonds to ensure they have enough money on hand to quickly pay claims following ...
‘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 ...
Pension Funds Investing in Cat Bonds Overlook Risk: Gen Re’s Montross
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Franklin "Tad" Montross said pension funds that increased bets on catastrophe bonds to improve investment returns may flee the market after a major natural disaster. ...
Re Pricing Down For June 1 Florida Renewals: Guy Carpenter
In a briefing published on it the website Monday, reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter said noted that alternative reinsurance capital helped drive traditional reinsurance pricing down for midyear ...
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 ...