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You’d be forgiven for thinking that the insurance-linked securities market was only about catastrophe risk securitization if you looked at our Deal Directory and in recent months it has been. However, according to panelists at ratings agency Standard & Poor’s recent Insurance 2012 Conference there’s life in life insurance-linked securitization yet, particularly in the securitization […]

We love a bullish quote here on Artemis and veteran reinsurance industry exec Don Kramer has provided one at the Bermuda Captive Conference which has been held over the last few days on the island. The CEO of ILS Capital Management, Kramer is quoted in this Royal Gazette article as saying that he is ‘seeing […]

2011 has been a very interesting year for the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market. We’ve seen cat bond defaults as a number of deals became a total loss, uncertainty as issuance stalled after the new RMS risk model was released, continuing financial market turbulence and other disasters which threatened exposed cat bonds. Despite all […]

Mercer, the global consulting, investment and outsourcing firm, has recommended that investors revisit alternative investments if they are looking for boosted returns from their portfolio. Mercer highlights a solid opportunity in alternative investments as a great way to find good returns while being uncorrelated to traditional equity type investments.