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  • What agencies look for at hedge fund reinsurers
    SAC Re backer SAC Capital Advisors has been making front page headlines recently as former staff face insider trading prosecutions. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company has warned staff and partners that it could face client withdrawals of $1bn or more this year.
    16 January 2013
  • SAC could face $1bn+ withdrawals
    Steven Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors is being sued by investors in the pharmaceutical company Elan, who allege that the hedge fund engaged in illegal insider trading in the firm's options before clinical trial results were released...
    16 January 2013
  • Marine factor will affect Sandy PCS total
    The high proportion of marine claims from Hurricane Sandy means that Property Claim Services industry loss estimates for the disaster are unlikely to match the final claims tally...
    16 January 2013
  • 2013 sidecars roll off the production line
    Property catastrophe pricing may have come in broadly flat at 1 January but the market for sidecar renewals and launches proved to be buoyant...
    16 January 2013
  • New $550mn start-up Peak Re sets eyes on Asia
    Asia Pacific reinsurance start-up Peak Re was met with "overwhelming demand" when the $550mn entity started underwriting ahead of the 1 January renewals, its founders told The Insurance Insider
    16 January 2013
  • Charge of the one-shot brigade
    Back in the infancy of the catastrophe bond marketplace, many (re)insurance practitioners gave a cautious welcome to the new capacity being brought to bear on their tightest cat markets…
    16 January 2013
  • Montpelier’s Blue Capital deploys $57mn at 1.1
    The newly listed Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund deployed $57mn of capital in the January reinsurance renewals, making up 58 percent of its net IPO proceeds, according to a statement released today (15 January).
    15 January 2013
  • Everest Re forms $250mn sidecar Mt Logan Re
    Everest Re has become the latest reinsurer to step into the third party managed capital space with the formation of a Bermudian sidecar-style vehicle Mt Logan Re, Ltd which is targeting launch capacity of $250mn
    14 January 2013
  • Validus powers up 2013 sidecar AlphaCat
    AlphaCat Managers, the investment advisory arm for Bermudian reinsurer Validus, has raised an additional $404.4mn of third-party capital for investment in a new sidecar and, for the first time, insurance-linked securities (ILS)
    10 January 2013
  • Catco writes off remaining Costa exposure
    Listed retrocession provider Catco has written off its remaining exposure to the Costa Concordia cruise ship sinking after the International Group of protection and indemnity insurers increased its loss estimate for liability claims from the disaster to $744mn, as reported by The Insurance Insider last December.
    09 January 2013
  • Argo unveils Harambee Re sidecar
    Argo Group has set up its first sidecar for the 2013 accident year, Harambee Re 2013-1
    07 January 2013
  • RenRe's Upsilon II writes $185mn of retro
    Convergence pioneer RenaissanceRe has written $185mn of collateralised limit through Upsilon Re II, the latest incarnation of its retro sidecar.
    07 January 2013
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