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Reinsurance broker Willis Re have also published a report looking at the state of the market at the 1st July renewals. In the Willis Re 1st View Renewals Report they suggest that reinsurers are repositioning themselves for a possible market turn after the heavy losses suffered in the past 16 months.

Plenum Investments, the Zurich based investment manager with a focus on alternatives such as insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds, notes in its May monthly fund performance update that both the primary and secondary ILS markets were relatively calm in May as investors held their positions.

A report published today by Mercer and a group of leading global investors concludes that continuing to delay on climate change policy action and a lack of international coordination could cost institutional investors trillions of dollars. Failure to factor climate change into a long term investment strategy could result in both losses and missed opportunities.