Archive for December, 2009

A new investment manager has entered the sector with a promised focus on insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds and collateralised reinsurance investment opportunities. The new company called Elementum Advisors is to be based in Chicago and is owned (following what seems to be a management buy out) by well known players in the ILS investment world.

Risk Management Solutions have released a few more details about their role in the recent Swiss Re mortality transaction Vita Capital IV Ltd. The transaction gives Swiss Re more coverage to allow for any increased mortality which results from H1N1 swine flu.  It’s the first deal of its kind being a mortality transaction which uses […]