Best of Artemis, week ending 7th March 2021

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 7th March 2021, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm, week ending 7th March 2021:

1. Aon & Willis Towers Watson merger may face EC statement of objection: Reuters
   According to Reuters, the Aon and Willis Towers Watson (WTW) merger may face a statement of objections from the European Commission (EC), as the authority seeks concessions to address competition concerns.
2. RenaissanceRe Capital Partners formed with Parry as Global Head
   RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda-based reinsurance firm and third-party capital management specialist, has announced a rebranding of its Ventures business as RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, with Chris Parry taking the lead role as its Global Head.
3. USAA aggregate cat bonds in focus on winter storm impacts
   Secondary market prices have dropped for some catastrophe bonds in the wake of recent severe winter storm losses in the United States, with aggregate Residential Re cat bonds, sponsored by primary military mutual insurer USAA, the names in investor focus.
4. Winter storm losses seen a driver for mid-year reinsurance firming: KBW
   Industry losses from recent winter storm activity in the United States are seen as another driver for more firming of reinsurance prices at the key mid-year renewals, according to analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
5. Florida Citizens to seek $850m of cat bonds before 2021 hurricane season
   Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is targeting a $2.6 billion reinsurance and risk transfer program in advance of the 2021 hurricane season beginning and within the renewed towers could be $850 million of new catastrophe bonds.
6. Cohen & Co targets $253m with fourth re/insurance SPAC
   Fixed income financial services focused investment firm Cohen & Company, LLC is back with another insurance, reinsurance and insurtech focused Special Purpose Acquisition Company, a blank check company or SPAC, with a $253 million target for INSU Acquisition Corp. IV.
7. Chubb’s ABR Re stake grows, importance as reinsurance capital rises
   Chubb, the global primary insurance carrier and reinsurance company, has increased its ownership stake in its strategically important total-return and third-party capitalised reinsurance joint-venture ABR Re, as its importance as a reinsurance provider to the Chubb group continues to grow.
8. Stonybrook automates ILW price sheets with ILWBroker.com service
   Stonybrook Capital, a specialist strategic advisory and investment banking firm focused exclusively on the insurance and reinsurance industry, has developed a service to make pricing of industry loss warranty (ILW) contracts more readily available and transparent.
9. NOAA considering earlier start to Atlantic hurricane season
   The official start of the Atlantic hurricane season could be moved earlier by up to two weeks, if officials from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) decide that the recent historical climatology warrants an extension to the season.
10. Aon to help insurers transfer emerging liability risks to the capital markets
    Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon is working in collaboration with Praedicat to develop named peril liability reinsurance products to help insurers transfer emerging liability risks such as those related to nanomaterials and 5G to traditional reinsurers and also the capital markets.

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