Archive for February, 2012

As much as 68% of the outstanding non-life insurance linked securities and catastrophe bond market was exposed to U.S. hurricane risks at the end of 2011 according to the fourth quarter ILS market update from Willis Capital Markets & Advisory. And so continues the trend for the cat bond market to be U.S. wind top-heavy, […]

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) have announced that they conducted mortality and longevity risk analysis for the recently completed €12 billion longevity swap involving Aegon and Deutsche Bank. As we wrote on Friday here, the record-breaking longevity risk transfer transaction saw Aegon offload €12 billion of their Netherlands longevity risk to Deutsche Bank, who in turn […]

Last week was particularly busy for news and saw some popular stories on Artemis. Here’s our Monday morning chance for you to catch up on the most viewed articles of the last week. This update includes news of the biggest longevity swap deal transacted to date, the launch of a new cat bond pricing tool, […]

The largest publicly reported longevity swap (that we’re aware of) has been announced today between Aegon and investment bank Deutsche Bank. The €12 billion deal see’s Aegon partially offset the risk of future increases in the Netherlands and they say that as a result of this capital markets longevity swap transaction as much as a […]

Many reinsurers have been reporting price increases in their catastrophe renewal business for 2012 particularly in regions which have been affected by the high insured losses of 2011. According to Zurich based Plenum Investments, an investment manager with a focus on insurance-linked securities, the strong demand for catastrophe reinsurance has in some cases increased prices […]

The risk of Japan suffering another major earthquake has increased since the M9.0 Tohoku quake of March 2011 according to research from risk modeller AIR Worldwide. In a report published yesterday AIR discuss the way the energy released by the massive quake last year has put stress on other areas of fault lines throughout the […]

Investors love tools that make their lives easier and which help them to make wiser investment decisions. After all, what investors are aiming to do is grow the capital they deploy into an asset class, so portfolio management tools are a welcome solution that allow for better clarity and transparency on their existing and new […]

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 […]

Hedge funds are showing increased interest in the reinsurance sector as they look for ways to diversify their investment strategies and to deploy their accumulated capital, according to a briefing paper published by ratings agency A.M. Best. The extent of the catastrophic losses experienced during 2011 has served to heighten this interest as hedge fund […]

Kane, a large global independent insurance management firm and one of the leading providers of insurance-linked securities administration services has announced that their ILS Practice Head Liz Frederick has also been appointed to the role of Managing Director, Kane USA. Ms Frederick will continue in the role heading up the ILS Practice and will start […]