ILS

The convergence market’s uneasy relationship with US liability perils should be rethought as the prospect of a new era of tort expansion will create opportunities for the sector.

The World Bank is launching a catastrophe bond issuance platform to give governments and other public entities access to international capital markets for natural catastrophe insurance.

Dutch insurance giant Aegon has completed a capital management transaction...

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has highlighted concerns over life settlement securitisations (LSS).

Rating agency Moody's has withdrawn the debt ratings on Flatiron Re after its loans were repaid in full earlier this year...

Texas-based Southwest Insurance Partners Inc (SWIP) has completed a $20mn capital raise increasing its overall capitalisation to more than $115mn, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

Achieving $3-4bn total ILS issuance for 2009 will be "quite a stretch" but "attainable", as a number of trends converge to boost interest in cat bonds in the fourth quarter, according to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter (GC) and its capital markets arm GC

Symetra - the former Safeco spin-off life and health insurer that counts White Mountains Insurance Group and Berkshire Hathaway among its major investors - has filed for a $575mn initial public offering (IPO).

Verisk Analytics - the holding company for the family of risk analysis and assessment firms that includes ISO and modelling firm AIR Worldwide - staged a successful initial public offering (IPO) of shares last week.

The trend of London market insurers fundraising through equity issuance looks set to continue, with the equity markets persisting as the "predominant source of new capital", according to the latest forecast from banking group Lloyds TSB.

Global stocks play catch up with (re)insurers; Multiples begin recovery; Lloyd's continues to enjoy premium

Dan Ozizmir, convergence market rainmaker and former Swiss Re Capital Markets (SRCM) head, has joined the judging panel for the Trading Risk Awards 2010.