alternative risk transfer

The first week of 2013 is now behind us and there was, as ever at this key juncture for the reinsurance market, a number of important news stories. Start 2013 off the right way by catching up here. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe […]

As a new year begins here at Artemis we’re pleased to report that 2012 has been our busiest year ever. Artemis has been serving these niche reinsurance and risk transfer markets since our launch back in May 1999 making Artemis the longest-serving publication covering catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities, alternative reinsurance and risk transfer. Artemis has […]

We hope you all had a good Christmas break and that this last weekly ‘best of’ post of 2012 helps you catch up on any news you may have missed. We’d like to wish you all the best for what looks set to be a busy 2013 for the market! As always, you can read […]

We’d like to take this chance to wish our readers, advertisers, sponsors, friends and partners a very Happy Holidays and all the best for a prosperous and successful 2013. We’ll keep you up to date on any breaking news over the festive period. As always, you can read every market news story and article on […]

The market continues to generate significant interest and buzz and as a result the news flow has been brisk again in the last week. As we head towards the end-of-year holidays we expect this to slow as focus turns to the reinsurance renewals. As always, you can read every market news story and article on […]

As we move towards the end of the year and the ever important January reinsurance renewals, it’s no surprise to see a new reinsurance-linked investment fund launch or for more cat bonds to come to market. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our […]

Once again the market has been dominated by discussion of loss estimates for hurricane Sandy in the last week. We also had more news on an interesting fund launch, news of a novel life reinsurance transaction and insight into how to make cat bonds cheaper. As always, you can read every market news story and […]

Interesting news today as Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. entered into a reinsurance agreement with Spanish insurance company VidaCaixa, Sociedad Anónima de Seguros y Reaseguros, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spain’s CaixaBank S.A. We don’t always cover straight reinsurance transactions but in this case it is interesting as this reinsurance agreement see’s Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway […]

We hope our U.S. readers enjoyed their Thanksgiving break. Here is our regular Monday morning update to ease you back into work and give you a chance to catch up on all the news from the markets we cover. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, […]

The insurance industry loss estimate from hurricane and post-tropical storm Sandy rose again last week. Still, the impact on reinsurers, reinsurance-linked funds and any catastrophe bonds is unclear. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our weekly email newsletter update and for your convenience […]