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Liberty Mutual: Insurance-linked securities market offered more value than traditional reinsurance

News 9th August 2012

Aon Benfield Securities recently published Q2 insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market report included an interview with Elaine Caprio Brady, Vice President and Manager of Ceded Reinsurance at Liberty Mutual Insurance. The interview discusses Liberty Mutual’s use of the insurance-linked securities market as they issued their most recent catastrophe bond, Mystic Re III Ltd. (Series […]

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Recent and upcoming catastrophe bond maturities

News 27th March 2012

As securities go, catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities are relatively short duration, with an average lifespan of three years. This means that while new issuance flows into the market there is a constant stream of transactions maturing, coming off risk and freeing up investor capital allowing it to be deployed into the new transactions. A […]

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Andrea Bellone joins Willis Capital Markets & Advisory as MD of European team

News 12th March 2012

Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA),  the division of global broker Willis Group which focuses on capital markets products such as insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds, as well as advising insurance and reinsurance companies on mergers & acquisitions have announced the appointment of Andrea Bellone as Managing Director of their European unit. Based in London, […]

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AIR Worldwide models risks for $10b of catastrophe bonds

News 6th April 2009

AIR Worldwide has announced that it has now modeled the risks on over $10b worth of catastrophe bonds since the market took off in 1996. They also claim to have modeled the risks on over 56% of the deals struck since 2007. During 2008 they provided services to 70% of the catastrophe bond capital issued […]

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Best of Artemis, week ending December 25th 2022

News 27th December 2022

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending December 25th 2022, 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.

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Best of Artemis, week ending December 4th 2022

News 5th December 2022

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending December 4th 2022, 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.

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Best of Artemis, week ending 30th May 2021

News 31st May 2021

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 30th May 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.

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Best of Artemis, week ending 6th December 2020

News 7th December 2020

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 6th December 2020, 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.

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