alternative risk transfer

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 […]

Last week was dominated by hurricane Isaac which struck the Louisiana coastline causing insured losses of up to $2 billion, at the latest estimate. August has been our busiest month ever on Artemis, with close to 13,000 active readers over the course of the month and nearly 60% growth since August 2011. We’d like to […]

The range of capital markets backed risk transfer tools such as catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities, sidecars, collateralized reinsurance entities and other structures, represent an increasingly viable and sustainable alternative to the traditional reinsurance market, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings. For traditional reinsurers, the growth of capital market alternatives offers mixed benefits, being […]

The 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season is in full swing and a storm named Isaac is currently threatening the Gulf Coast. Visit this page where you can read all of our previous Monday morning catch-ups to find any stories you may have missed. Of course you can also use our keyword searchbox on the right to […]

It’s been another busy week for news in the markets we cover. Many of our readers have been taking vacations over the summer period so we hope these recaps are proving useful. Visit this page where you can read all of our previous Monday morning catch-ups to find any stories you may have missed. Of […]

It’s Monday morning again and here’s our post-Olympic catch-up of the most read articles during the last seven days. Many of you have been on vacation in recent weeks so we have left you a simple way to go back and find any important news you may have missed. Visit this page where you can […]