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In our regular ILW quarterly update, Willis Re executive director Henry Kingham discusses the speculative nature of ILW trading...
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The big three modelling firms, AIR, RMS and Eqecat, fiercely defend their independence from the commercial impact of their risk models, with commentators lauding modellers' "considerable integrity" in devising their own methodologies.
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As the state of New York mulls plans to funnel compulsory catastrophe insurance premiums into its own wind pool, existing quasi-governmental plans are buying more reinsurance protection from the capital markets.
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Aon Benfield's deputy CEO of Global ReSpeciality, Daniel Burrows, discusses how capital markets have helped to mould the shape of today's retro market.
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As if hedging against Mother Nature wasn't a tricky enough business, weather derivatives dealers have been hard hit by the global market turbulence over the past two years.
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Swiss Re traders Patti Guatteri and Mitchell Mintz walk us through the opportunities for trading (re)insurance risk during a live storm
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As 2010 develops into a healthy year for the cat bond market and US government bond yields reach new lows, some players are leaping on increasing confidence in the markets to push for a return to Libor-linked structures.
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In our regular ILW quarterly update, Willis Re executive director Henry Kingham sees strong Q2 ILS issuance starving ILW buyers of capital markets capacity. ILWs now offer a hard market haven for those with the cash to invest...
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As one of the industry's leading cat bond managers with a global capital market reach, Goldman Sachs has a unique perspective on the ILS market. Here, the firm's co-head of America's securitisation, Michael Millette, analyses the changing face of cat bond investors...
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Karen Clark, of the eponymous firm, is a leading expert in catastrophe risk assessment and management, working for more than 25 years in the field. Clark developed the first hurricane catastrophe model and founded the first catastrophe modelling company, Applied Insurance Research (AIR), in 1987. She shares her thoughts on the 2010 hurricane forecasts...
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Despite talk of resilience and risk picking in the Sunshine State, the dynamics of a traditional property casualty reinsurance market full of surplus capacity held sway at the key 1.6 Florida renewal.
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The key US cat renewal date of 1 June this year - which was characterised by excess traditional capacity and falling rates - served to underline the steady presence of collateralised reinsurance in the property cat market.
