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Demand for crop reinsurance is falling rapidly, partly due to M&A in the underlying insurance business, sister publication The Insurance Insider reported
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Demand for crop reinsurance is falling rapidly, partly due to M&A in the underlying insurance business, sister publication The Insurance Insider reported
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A decade ago, cat bonds were almost universally rated - usually by Standard & Poor's and sometimes by Fitch Ratings
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Issuers are increasingly choosing World Bank debt as the investment vehicle for cat bond collateral, following an uptick in US Libor yields throughout 2016
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Pressure from ratings agencies to strengthen capital positions could force some Florida insurers to retrench, potentially reducing reinsurance demand, UPC Insurance chief financial officer Brad Martz said at the Sifma IRLS conference
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Florida provides two-thirds of the exposure and margin in the reinsurance industry's US wind portfolio, according to data from Aon Benfield
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Liberty Mutual's new Limestone Re sidecar could pave the way for further disintermediation in the (re)insurance sector, a Standard & Poor's (S&P) insurance analyst said at the Sifma IRLS conference in Miami last month
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Electronic trading in the secondary cat bond market may still be a distant prospect, according to panellists at the Sifma IRLS 2017 conference in Miami
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Hannover Re was among the reinsurers to top up on retro through expanded sidecar placements in the January renewals
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Private cat bond placements have become increasingly common in recent years, but the popularity of these somewhat opaque transactions has been coupled with concerns over their impact on the market's liquidity.
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Some UK pension funds are delaying making decisions on longevity swaps because of a recent increase in pensioner mortality rates, sources have told Trading Risk
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An update to RMS's medium-term hurricane model will result in 8-10 percent reductions to projected annual average losses from US hurricanes for the typical cat bond market risk level of 1-in-100- or 250-year return periods
