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ILS

  • Axa IM offers $100mn fund   
    Axa Investment Managers (IM) has launched its first public catastrophe fund, the $100mn Gaia, underlining investor interest in insurance-linked assets.
    04 February 2010
  • Hannover Re renews K6 sidecar
    German reinsurer Hannover Re has expanded its K6 sidecar vehicle by $152mn to offer $329mn of total capacity for its catastrophe retro business in 2010.
    04 February 2010
  • Carillon is latest Lehman ILS default
    A tranche of Munich Re's $150mn Carillon Ltd US wind cat bond has become the latest in a quartet of Lehman Brothers-affected insurance-linked securitisations (ILS) to default.
    04 February 2010
  • Hartford launches $180mn cat bond
    US primary insurer Hartford Fire Insurance Co closed the first cat bond of 2010 with the launch of the $180mn Foundation Re III.
    04 February 2010
  • R&Q continues services expansion with JMD deal
    R&Q's £2mn acquisition of premium collection firm JMD Specialist Insurance Services last week is a "significant extension" to its traditional run-off business, according at Numis Securities.
    26 January 2010
  • Parametric US earthquake model launched
    Modelling agency Risk Management Solutions (RMS) launched its new Paradex US Earthquake (PUE) parametric index for estimating insured losses from US quakes last week.
    26 January 2010
  • Soft reinsurance market to slow 2010 cat bond issuance; Fitch
    Fitch Ratings has predicted that continued "strong" cat bond issuance will be tempered by a soft traditional reinsurance market in 2010.
    26 January 2010
  • Foundation Re III upsizes to $180mn
    US primary insurer Hartford Fire Insurance Co's cat bond, Foundation Re III, has almost doubled in size to $180mn in marketing and priced at the low end of expectations, our sister publication Trading Risk revealed last week.
    26 January 2010
  • Swiss Re-Berkshire SFr$1.3bn life deal continues to baffle
    Last week's SFr1.3bn transfer of a closed block of US life reinsurance business to Berkshire Hathaway (BH) continues to bemuse analysts and industry commentators alike.
    26 January 2010
  • Munich Re’s Carillon is latest Lehman default
    A tranche of Munich Re's $150mn Carillon Ltd US wind cat bond has become the latest of a quartet of Lehman Brothers-affected insurance-linked securitisations (ILS) to default.
    19 January 2010
  • Hartford kick-starts 2010 with $100mn cat bond
    US insurer Hartford Fire Insurance Co has launched $100mn Foundation Re III – its third transaction in the Foundation series and the first insurance-linked security (ILS) of 2010.
    19 January 2010
  • Glacier Re considers selling off units
    Glacier Re, the private equity-owned (re)insurer that parted company with its founding CEO Robbie Klaus last year, is in talks to sell off the renewal rights of various parts of its business.
    19 January 2010
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