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The Scottish Re sponsored 2006 Ballantyne Re Ltd. Regulation XXX life insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction has finally been fully wound up, as a restructuring has been completed and the remaining assets in the reinsurance trust account disbursed to investors.

Investors in the Scottish Re sponsored 2006 Ballantyne Re Ltd. Regulation XXX life insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction look set to finally realise their losses, as a restructuring of the vehicle, novation of the underlying reinsurance and winding up procedure has been proposed.

Karson Management (Bermuda) Limited, led by veteran of the insurance-linked security (ILS) and alternative risk financing sector Derrell Hendrix, alongside BNY Mellon have announced the successful completion of the first K-Note reinsurance collateral financing transaction in Canada.

It’s no surprise to read that Standard & Poor’s has withdrawn the majority of the ratings it held on Scottish Re’s 2006 Ballantyne Re Plc Regulation XXX type life insurance-linked securities (ILS), as it no longer sees the market interest in maintaining the ratings.

International and Lloyd’s specialist insurance and reinsurance broker RFIB Group Limited has launched a new life reinsurance unit, with part of its remit being to assist life insurer clients to access capital markets sources of life reinsurance capacity.

Scottish Re’s 2006 Ballantyne Re Regulation XXX type life insurance securitization transaction will struggle to return much capital to investors following huge mark-to-market losses on the assets in the underlying collateral accounts, according to an update on the deal from rating agency Fitch Ratings.

In the last few days the news has been awash with discussions of so-called ‘shadow insurance’, discussing the practices of life insurers in using captives and offshore vehicles as sources of reinsurance protection. A report published on Tuesday called out certain practices by life insurers as overly risky to both policyholders and taxpayers.

The life insurance side of the alternative risk financing, transfer and insurance-linked securities market is alive and well with reasonable deal flow in 2012 and a positive outlook to 2013, according to a recent paper on the subject published by actuarial focused firm Milliman Inc. Milliman includes a number of different structures within the life […]

Scottish Re’s 2006 Ballantyne Re life insurance securitization transaction has been heading for what seems like an inevitable default for some time now. The Regulation XXX type life insurance linked transaction saw huge mark-to-market losses on the assets in the underlying collateral accounts. As a result it experienced regular failures to make interest payments resulting […]

Here’s an interesting press release from Karson Management, a firm established by the team at RISConsulting Group and led by Derrell Hendrix a veteran of the insurance-linked security and alternative risk financing/transfer sectors. The press release is regarding Karson Collateral, a provider of solvency eligible collateral for risk transfer and credit enhancement applications. Their K-Note […]