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Investors waiting for a catastrophe event to improve rates before deploying capital into ILS may be failing to understand the fundamental value of the asset class, according to speakers at the Trading Risk New York Rendez-Vous.
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The creativity of the ILS market is increasing its value to reinsurance buyers and outweighing its mono-line focus on catastrophe risk as cedants increasingly push counterparties to write multiple lines of business.
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Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) will seek to bring new investors into Humboldt Re in the future but its growth will depend on market conditions, the firm's head of ILS Niklaus Hilti told Trading Risk.
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Proposed changes to AM Best's method of calculating capital adequacy for (re)insurers could boost demand for peak cat cover, particularly from regional US carriers.
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How will climate change impact ILS?
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The mix of cat bonds issued in 2015 is looking notably more diverse than last year as third quarter diversifier deals helped lessen the dominance of North American perils.
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At the recent Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, the ILS market sent out a clear message that it had come of age and is here to stay
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A group of sidecars followed by Trading Risk are on track to deliver annualised returns of 10.48 percent, according to data compiled from filings made by US fund managers Stone Ridge and Pioneer
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The 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has prompted a number of modelling firms to focus on US storm surge risk, with RMS and Karen Clark & Company (KCC) both releasing studies on the most vulnerable US cities.
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As the UK government has announced plans to become a more attractive domicile for ILS business, it is worth examining how alternative capital currently participates at Lloyd's.
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A group of sidecars tracked by Trading Risk recorded an average increase in fair value of 2.5 percent for the three months from February to April 2015, according to disclosures from sidecar investors Stone Ridge Asset Management and Pioneer.
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AIR Worldwide has completely revamped the way it models storm surge losses in the latest major update of its US Atlantic hurricane models.
