Archive for March, 2013

The Life & Longevity Markets Association (LLMA), an association formed to provide a forum for market participants to collaborate on issues related to the transfer of longevity risks, and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries have teamed up to run a research project looking into basis risk for longevity risk transfer transactions. A call for […]

The Caelus Re 2013 Ltd. catastrophe bond which has been doing the rounds of the ILS investment market for the last week or so has been so well received that its pricing has dropped for the second time, finishing at a coupon level of just 5.25% above the collateral investment yield. This cat bond has […]

The year for investors and fund managers has started in a positive manner, with the average return of insurance-linked security (ILS) and reinsurance-linked investment funds in January achieving 0.68% as measured by the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index. For a January this is around average and well up on the average ILS fund return a year earlier […]

At the recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Insurance Conference held earlier this month William Babcock, the Chief Financial Office and an Executive Vice President at Bermudian reinsurer PartnerRe, made some interesting comments about the increasing flow of third-party capital into the reinsurance space. His comments reflect the trend being seen for reinsurers to […]