alternative risk transfer

The ILS and catastrophe bond market are sitting out the remainder of the U.S. hurricane season, hoping for another diversifying deal to come to market. Appetite remains strong and there are market rumours that a deal could launch within the next fortnight. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the […]

It’s been another busy week for news in the markets we cover here on Artemis. Discussion of insurance and reinsurance as an investment opportunity increases and news of companies seeking to support investors and sponsors goals becomes more frequent. As always, you can read every news story and article on the Artemis news blog and […]

Readers of Artemis will know that we often discuss the increasing flow of capital from institutional investors into the non-traditional reinsurance space and the effect capital markets sourced capacity has on the traditional reinsurance market and on reinsurers. One of the effects of this influx of capital is pressure on rates, as availability of capacity […]

An interesting week in the markets we cover on Artemis, with a high-profile, and very welcome transaction offering diversification for cat bond investors in MultiCat and an interesting new company launch in Multi-Strat. As always, you can read every news story and article on the Artemis news blog and for your convenience these are the […]

A stormy future lies ahead for U.S. property and casualty re/insurers according to a new report from Ceres, a nonprofit group advocating for sustainability leadership from businesses and investors. The report suggests worsening weather in a warming world poses a growing risk to the financial stability of insurance and reinsurance companies, and this has broad […]

Last week saw the market get back to work after the Monte Carlo meetings. As usual that means news was a little slower, although what news did break has been particularly interesting. As always, you can read everything on the Artemis news blog and here are the ten most popular news articles from the last […]

Last week saw the annual reinsurance industry event in Monte Carlo, the Rendez-vous de Septembre, take place. Hopefully those of you who attended will have been able to keep up with the market news but if you didn’t our regular monday catch up will help. The last week was extremely busy with many companies releasing […]

It looks like one of the hot topics of conversation at Monte Carlo this year is the convergence of the reinsurance and capital markets. That area we cover where non-traditional reinsurance alternatives such as collateralized vehicles, catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities, sidecars, third-party capital and direct investor participation in the reinsurance and retrocession markets are […]

Once again hurricanes have been dominating the thoughts of much of the reinsurance market, particularly as Bermuda was threatened by Leslie. Thankfully hurricane Leslie tracked further east and moved past Bermuda with minimal impact. The markets thoughts now turn to Monte Carlo for this week’s Rendez-vous meetings. To help you prepare for this industry meetup, […]

Reinsurance intermediary Aon Benfield have published the latest edition of their twice yearly Aon Benfield Aggregate report today in which they look at the financial position of the world’s top reinsurers. In it they say that at the 30th June 2012 global reinsurer capital was up 5% on six months previous to $480 billion. New […]