American Family Mutual Insurance Company is back in the catastrophe bond market, looking to extend its capital markets supported reinsurance protection through the issuance of a $100 million or larger Four Lakes Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) multi-peril cat bond issuance.
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Logistics, warehousing and supply-chain focused real estate owner and investor Prologis, Inc. has turned to the catastrophe bond market to source earthquake insurance protection, with the company set to be the beneficiary of a $95 million or larger Logistics Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) cat bond issuance.
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Some insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds have reported their third and in some cases have, or are set to report a fourth negative month of returns in a row, as greater clarity over the magnitude of losses from the European flooding and hurricane Ida continues to emerge.
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Attitudes on pricing are generally seen as “bullish” as the January reinsurance renewals approach, with capacity availability and risk appetite seen as key factors, according to Head of Analytics at Howden unit HX, David Flandro.
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Vida Capital, Inc., the alternative investment manager with a life settlement and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focus, has announced the hiring of Zachary Ainsberg, who joins the firm as Managing Director, Chief of Staff.
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Horseshoe, the Artex-owned Bermuda-headquartered insurance or reinsurance management, fund administration and insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist, has hired Ben Wright as a Senior Vice President, Insurance Management.
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The first parametric catastrophe bond to cover pure volcanic eruption risk, which was brought to market for the Danish Red Cross and is the first cat bond with a purely humanitarian focused payout strategy, has now been listed in Guernsey on The International Stock Exchange (TISE).
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Global reinsurance market participants are anticipating broad firming at the upcoming January 2022 renewal season, with retrocession and property catastrophe risks seen as areas in need of price improvements.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending November 28th 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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RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the third-party capital management and insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit of Bermuda-headquartered reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe (RenRe), hired Lucy Briggs as Vice President and Head of Risk earlier this year.
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According to CEO Jay Madhu, investors in the collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle of Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance firm, earned a 17% return for the year to end of May 2021.
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The US commercial property insurance market has always been a good bellwether for broader conditions across insurance as well as reinsurance and after a catastrophe heavy third-quarter of 2021, the dynamics in that market continue to get more interesting.
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Computershare, an Australia headquartered banking, transfer agent and investor services provider, has acquired expertise in reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) collateral trusts, having purchased the Wells Fargo US Corporate Trust Business.
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In order to develop India’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) into a competitive global insurance and reinsurance hub, a committee has advised that offering regulated frameworks for insurance-linked securities (ILS) such as catastrophe bonds is critical.
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