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» 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season
The 2017 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season is now underway. Track the season as it develops on our dedicated page; with forecast information, storm by storm updates, tracking maps, satellite imagery and more.

» Reinsurance renewal coverage
Read our reporting, insight and analysis of the January 2017 reinsurance renewals, when a large proportion of global reinsurance program terms are renewed and repriced. Reinsurance rate declines have slowed at 1/1, but reports suggest that the pressure on the traditional market remains. Read our reinsurance renewal coverage here.

» Q1 2017 Cat Bond Market Report - More records drive further growth
Q1 saw a record $2.76 billion of risk capital issued from fourteen transactions, becoming the fourth consecutive year Q1 issuance has reached a new high, and approximately $1.4 billion above the ten-year average.

The outstanding market size at the end of Q1 2017 is the largest ever, at an impressive $27.19 billion, roughly $377 million higher than at the end of 2016. Download the report here.

» U.S. convective storm re/insurance losses hit $11bn in 2017 YTD

» $100m World Bank pandemic facility cat bonds launched by IBRD

» New York MTA uses ILS to create “tension” between reinsurance markets

» Hudson Structured & MultiStrat complete novel casualty ILS transaction

» Flood cat bonds? Flood sidecars? How can the NFIP de-risk using ILS?

» 2017 sets new full-year cat bond record, at $9.14bn of issuance

» InsurTech enables Ventus to provide “superior risk” to the ILS space: Interview

» China to pilot agricultural disaster insurance in 200 counties

» Leadenhall backs InsurTech focused “insurance challenger” Gryphon

» Turing Re collateralized sidecar launched at $65m by Hamilton Re

» Healthy pipeline of ILS deals expected in 2017: LGT ILS Partners
The LGT ILS portfolio management team discuss their thoughts on the markets prospects in 2017.

» Michael Hamer, Albourne Partners on standardised reporting in ILS
Hamer discusses the need for standardised reporting and the benefits it would offer ILS investors.

» ILS manager quality growing in importance: Espen Nordhus, Securis
Nordhus discussed a tough renewal period, saying that ILS manager quality is more important than ever before.

» The “horizontalization” of ILS to intensify in 2017 & beyond: JLTCM
In 2017 the ILS market will be defined by horizontalization, or the expansion of the ILS product offering, JLTCM said.

» Reinsurance price deterioration could persist into 2018: Moody’s
Moody’s said that it expects reinsurance pricing to decline by up to 5% in 2017 and possibly decline in 2018.