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Signum Finance mortality linked CDS finally downgraded by Fitch

News 21st December 2011

Ratings agency Fitch Ratings have finally downgraded the ratings or Signum Finance Cayman Ltd. Series 2010-09, a life securitization type transaction which provides Goldman Sachs with a mortality hedge for a defined block of life insurance. The Signum Finance deal has been threatened for a while and Fitch placed the ratings on watch negative back […]

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Signum Finance mortality linked CDS back on Rating Watch Negative

News 20th October 2011

The Signum Finance Cayman Ltd. Series 2010-09 transaction which provides Goldman Sachs with a mortality hedge for a defined block of life insurance has been put back on a Rating Watch Negative status by Fitch Ratings. We first wrote about this interesting insurance-linked securitization almost a year ago and then updated you on its status […]

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Goldman Sachs issues mortality linked CDS under Signum Finance

News 8th November 2010

Goldman Sachs has been involved in an interesting structured finance transaction recently. Through its special purpose vehicle, the Cayman Islands based, Signum Finance Cayman Ltd. Goldman Sachs has issue $200m of Series 2010-09 notes designed to provide it with a mortality hedge for a defined block of life insurance.

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Best of Artemis, week ending 25th December 2011

News 28th December 2011

We hope all our readers have enjoyed or are continuing to enjoy a holiday break. We’re back to business as usual from tomorrow, with some catching up to do today. To bring those of you who are back at work up to speed with the market happenings from before Christmas, here’s a chance to catch […]

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2010 in figures for Artemis

News 3rd January 2011

We’ve had a great 2010 here at Artemis and we thought we’d share some figures with you that we are proud of. As some of you will know Steve Evans spent the first half of 2010 in Asia travelling, consulting and working on a number of risk related projects, so Artemis took a bit of […]

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