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The increasing role of the capital markets in the reinsurance sector was one of the major themes of the 2012 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, but ratings agencies differed on the alternative market's impact
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Nephila Capital co-founder Frank Majors warned that reinsurers face a number of potential pitfalls as they target the funds management arena
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The catastrophe retrocession market has grown by nearly 20 percent over the past two years and will deploy a record $9bn of indemnity limit over the course of 2012, Aon Benfield estimates.
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ILS market participants are predicting substantial growth over the coming few years after enjoying a bumper 2012, which is encouraging more and more traditional reinsurers to dip their toes into the sector.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher associate Matthew Stern looks at the impact of US judicial decisions on the ILS market
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US property catastrophe pricing showed further signs of abating at the 1 July renewals, with reinsurance rate rises cooling after a year of increases and evidence emerging of a less favourable retrocession market
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Reinsurers are revising their view of the role they play in the convergence markets as they increasingly target third party funds management business, according to various commentators
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Luzi Hitz and Eduard Held argue that the market now has the building blocks in place to trade UK flood risk.
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With the mid-year renewals in full swing, Trading Risk explores the convergence markets' inexorable march into underwriting reinsurance risk.
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P&C (re)insurers have moved towards a new "paradigm" where a smaller core balance sheet is complemented by off-balance sheet ventures that provide less volatile fee income and a more efficient way to flex capital, says Goldman Sachs head of structured finance Michael Millette.
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Charles Collis and Michael Frith from Conyers Dill & Pearman look at the moving currents of "hard-wired" ILS structures
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Most reinsurers are still talking up the mid-year US property cat market and insisting that the 10-15 percent rate increases seen at 1 January can be replicated, but the first cracks in the façade of market confidence have become apparent
