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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 […]

Once again, hurricane Sandy dominated our coverage last week. The market is now waiting for updates on the estimates of insured industry losses from the storm, there may be more clarity later this week we understand. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our […]

Hurricane Sandy dominated our coverage last week and kept us extremely busy. The market now awaits the verdict on whether there are meaningful impacts to catastrophe bonds and reinsurers. 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 […]

Last week was dominated by three new catastrophe bonds which all priced (details on them all can be found in our Deal Directory) and then hurricane Sandy took over to dominate the markets thoughts. We hope all our U.S. east coast readers stay safe as Sandy approaches! As always, you can read every market news […]

Meadowbrook Insurance Group, a U.S. specialty property and casualty insurance group, has tasked itself with looking at ‘reinsurance alternatives’ in an effort to resolve a review of its ratings instigated by A.M. Best. Best has placed the financial strength ratings and issuer credit ratings of Meadowbrook subsidiaries and Meadowbrook itself’s ICR under review with negative […]

After saying in last Monday’s update that the market was full of rumours that a new catastrophe bond deal would launch, by the end of last week we had three new transactions to report on. Find details on them all in our Deal Directory. As always, you can read every market news story and article […]