Archive for November, 2009

The Bermuda First initiative has now released its long awaited report which looks into Bermudas future and how to make it a success. The initiative is a public-private effort jointly funded by the Bermudian government and some of the largest businesses in Bermuda (including reinsurers). The purpose was to better understand Bermudas economic position and […]

The Association of British Insurers will be revealing the findings of its latest report into climate change this week at their climate change event. The study which looks into the impact of rising temperatures caused by the changing global climate will show that a four degree rise in global temperatures (something they say could happen […]

Today I happened across a great article written by Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP (a leading international law firm with a big reinsurance practice) which takes a look at the recent International Association of Insurance Supervisors report (as we wrote about here) and seeks to answer some of the questions it raises.

The World Banks MultiCat Program has received a lot of coverage across the non-trade press and is rightly exciting finance ministers of developing countries. The hope is that it will open up the catastrophe bond market which has previously been difficult for them to access. There’s much talk about who will be the next countries […]

Here’s some interesting advice and an interesting fact about investing in insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds. You would think that the worst possible time to be invested in cat bonds would be when major catastrophes happen. However, it seems that you’re still better off with your investment in catastrophe linked assets than in the financial […]