clariden leu

Private banking and asset management firm LGT Group have announced the completion of their acquisition of the insurance-linked investment business of Clariden Leu. The acquisition, which we first announced in March, see’s LGT Group take over the insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bond and insurance-linked investment funds that Clariden Leu have operated along with the team who […]

Michael Stahel, currently Managing Director and Head of Insurance-Linked Investments for Clariden Leu but soon to move to a new home at LGT Capital Management, forecasts a further shift of capacity away from traditional reinsurance markets to financial market placements, such as catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities. Overall he says he is bullish on the […]

Michael Stahel and his portfolio management team, who currently manage insurance-linked securities funds for Swiss based investment manager and private bank Clariden Leu but are soon to move to their new home at LGT Capital Management, are planning to launch two new insurance-linked strategy funds in response to demand from investors. Currently the team manages […]

Regular readers of Artemis and those actively involved in the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market will be fully aware that secondary market cat bond prices have been sliding in recent months. We’ve written many articles in recent months which references this downward pressure on cat bond price returns which has been a feature of […]

The secondary market for outstanding insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds showed a dramatic tightening of prices in February, according to Swiss based investment manager and private bank Clariden Leu in their latest fund performance report. This is notable for this market, say Clariden Leu, given that it is generally quite stable except for when responding […]

There’s been a lot of speculation in the last few weeks about the future for the Clariden Leu insurance-linked securities investment management business as the integration of the private banking arm into Credit Suisse neared. CS already had an ILS investment arm and there was some uncertainty as to how the two units could be […]

The catastrophe bond market has been particularly active during the month of January 2012, with an extraordinary number of new issuances coming to market, according to Swiss based investment manager and private bank Clariden Leu in their latest fund performance report. Five new cat bonds with an issuance volume of close to $800m came to […]

Swiss private bank and investment manager Clariden Leu have issued another of their innovative ‘cat bond lite’ transactions which see them transform an ILW contract into a catastrophe bond note which can be issued for investment purposes. This is their third such transaction (details on Clariden Leu’s previous cat bond lite deals can be found […]

Investment manager Clariden Leu has reopened their Luxembourg based catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security investment funds to new subscriptions as a result of the improving market and increased issuance. All of the Clariden Leu dedicated catastrophe bond funds have been closed to new subscribers since May 2011 due to the lack of new deals coming […]

Two days ago it was announced that Credit Suisse would be fully integrating its Swiss private banking offshoot Clariden Leu into its organisation. Clariden Leu, who operate a number of insurance-linked securities investment funds, came into existence through the merger of five private banking subsidiaries of Credit Suisse. Now the parent company is pulling them […]