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The last week saw the launch of a new insurance-linked securities issuance platform, the first catastrophe bond of the fourth quarter begin marketing and updates to loss expectations for tornado impacted cat bonds amongst other stories. Here, to give our readers a chance to catch up on any news they have missed, are the top […]

Another week has passed and we have many new articles for you to read on our core topics of insurance securitization, weather risk and catastrophe reinsurance. Here, to give our readers a chance to catch up on any news they have missed, are the top ten most read stories of the last seven days.

It’s been another busy week here at Artemis with many new articles to read. Unsurprisingly the most read news of the last week was our article about an innovative new type of risk which was securitized and sold to investors. Here, to give our readers a chance to catch up on any news they have […]

Many of our readers were in Monte Carlo last week attending the Rendez-Vous de Septembre reinsurance meetings. As a result many of you will have missed some of our more recent articles. Here, to give our readers a chance to catch up on any news they have missed, are the top ten most read stories […]

It’s been another busy week in the market with activity and discussion of private deals, expected losses to tornado exposed catastrophe bonds, more speculation on the amount of investment capital likely to flow into ILS and more tropical storms spinning in the Atlantic. Here, to give our readers a chance to catch up on any […]

The aftermath, potential impact to any exposed catastrophe bonds and loss calculation from hurricane Irene has been the dominant piece of news in the last week. Other interesting news stories included the private catastrophe bond Kizuna Re Ltd. coming to market to successfully offer $160m of coverage to Tokio Marine. There were also a number […]

The past week has, unsurprisingly, been dominated by the approach of hurricane Irene towards the U.S. coastline. At first, Irene looked like the major event that could have caused a worst case loss scenario for reinsurers and the catastrophe bond market, but it now seems that Irene has only dealt the U.S. a relatively soft […]

It’s been another busy week of news in the markets we cover, with many new articles on a variety of risk transfer related topics. Here, to give readers a chance to catch up on any news they have missed, are the top ten most read stories of the last seven days. The topic which received […]

After a slight hiccup last week, when due to the volume of news we neglected to post a ‘best of the previous week’ piece on Artemis, we’re back to trial this again in the hope that it allows readers who’ve missed an article a chance to catch up on the market news from the past […]

We’re going to trial a new regular post at the start of the week in which we’ll list the ten most viewed articles of the last week. We hope that this will give you an easy way to catch up on stories which you may have missed or not had time to read. We’ll trial […]