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After seeing their prices drop significantly in the wake of the US winter storms and severe freezing weather, a number of the exposed aggregate catastrophe bond tranches have now experienced a meaningful price recovery in the latest cat bond secondary market price sheets.

Hong Kong’s proposed insurance-linked securities (ILS) grant scheme, that will pay a share of issuance costs for catastrophe bond sponsors electing to use the domicile once its ILS regulatory regime is ready, is seen as an initiative to enhance the development of the local marketplace and could result in a first transaction being issued this […]

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 7th March 2021, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

For insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers, embedding enterprise architecture can ensure innovation and technology are a focal point that serve to advance the business strategy, according to Synpulse Management Consulting.

Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management and collateralised reinsurance underwriter, saw fund-raising success at the end of last year, helping to lift its ILS assets under management to $4.4 billion.

Catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance has already surpassed the ten-year average for the first-quarter in 2021, with total issuance recorded in the Artemis Deal Directory now at almost $2.5 billion.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand its remit and reach, it’s important to consider the efforts of the fund and investment side of the space as it looks to service a growing investor base.

The complexities surrounding the development of an ultimate of insurance and reinsurance market losses from the recent US winter storm event are set to be significant, with broker Aon warning to expect a prolonged period of loss creep.

Lockton Re, the reinsurance business of the privately held independent global broking firm, has hired Simon Moore, the former Chief Underwriting Officer of CATCo, as a Senior Broker within its Non-Marine Retrocession & Property Specialty team in London.

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has said today that it believes the repricing of insurance-linked securities (ILS), such as catastrophe bonds, as in line with the rate hardening seen across traditional reinsurance.