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» The disaster gap: How insurers and the capital markets can harness big data to close the gap
A new report published by BNY Mellon looks at the potential for growth in the catastrophe bond market and suggests that it could double in five years to $50 billion as reinsurers and capital markets seek to close the gap between economic and insured losses globally.

The study: “The disaster gap: How insurers and the capital markets can harness big data to close the gap”, includes contributions from some of the world’s leading experts on cat bonds and big data ..

» Aggregates; what you don’t know can hurt you
Dmitry Mnushkin president of Treefrog Consulting Ltd, a Bermuda-based risk software firm which specialises in solutions for the reinsurance and ILS industry, writes about the importance of risk portfolio aggregation and how software can help you to make sense of it.

» Alternative reinsurance capacity up by 80% since 2010
Swiss Re said that alternative capacity has grown by 80% since 2010 and that the catastrophe bond market has hit an all-time high after seeing 20% growth this year.

» Reinsurance, capital markets should lead way on loss & damages
We discuss the need for reinsurance and capital markets to lead the way on how to address rising disaster and weather loss and damages as well as the need to take a market-based approach to this issue.

» 2013 catastrophe bond issuance hits $6.54B
2013 catastrophe bond and ILS issuance hit $6.54 billion when the latest deal, Galileo Re, completed at the end of October. 2013 cat bond issuance is well on track for getting near to the record set in 2007.

» What if a Super Typhoon Haiyan hit Miami?

» More hedge funds and asset managers to launch reinsurers: EY

» First Longevity Experience Option to be traded by Deutsche Bank by year-end

» JLT launches JLT Towers Re, reveals name of new capital markets unit

» Chris McKeown joins New Ocean Capital (XL Group – Stone Point ILS unit) as CEO

» Underwriting a focus as alternative reinsurance capital challenges mount

» ILS market to double by 2018, drive further rate decreases: Credit Suisse analysts

» The first Scandinavian ILS & cat bond fund manager?

» ILS and cat bonds not about fee income for Swiss Re: CFO Quinn

» ILS investment manager interview: Dexion Capital (DCG Iris)
We spoke with Ana Haurie, Managing Director and Martin McCubbin, Research and Advisory at Dexion Capital. Dexion Capital operate the DCG IRIS ILS fund, which acts as a feeder into a Credit Suisse managed ILS fund.

» Alternative capital is efficient capital: Frank Majors, Nephila Capital
The preferred terminology used at ILS investment manager Nephila Capital to describe the third-party capital that has entered the reinsurance market, as institutional investors appreciation for catastrophe risk as an asset class has grown, is not ‘alternative capital’, rather it is ‘efficient capital’..