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Private equity investor Aquiline Capital Partners has put significant sums to work in funds managed by Juniperus Capital as well as buying the investment manager, Trading Risk can report.
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Investors have welcomed tighter conditions on ILS cover following unease over the Mariah Re payouts.
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Modelling firm RMS has signed up Rochdale Securities as the first broker to provide secondary pricing data for the launch of its new ILS pricing tool.
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Retro sidecars gained traction in the January renewals as at least one new vehicle, RenaissanceRe's Upsilon, joined the starting line.
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Bermudian collateralised reinsurance writer Aeolus raised and deployed about $1.2bn in capital over the past year as it evolved from a private equity partnership into a third party funds manager, Trading Risk can reveal.
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Bermudian reinsurer Arch expects to take a $13.7mn-$15.7mn loss from its share in collateralised writer Aeolus's results from the second half of 2011.
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Investment manager Catco does not plan on further fundraising into the group's listed investment vehicle Catco Reinsurance Opportunities Fund this year, the company announced in an update today.
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The insurance industry is becoming increasingly attractive to short-term capital investors as returns from other sectors dwindle, but insurers shouldn't expect this to last, Kiln CEO Charles Franks says
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Insurance-specialist private equity investor Aquiline Capital Partners has bought out the existing shareholders of Bermuda-based catastrophe investment manager Juniperus Capital Ltd (JCL), Trading Risk can reveal.
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Swiss-based alternative investor Twelve Capital has expanded its partnership with Bank Sarasin to sell a new ILS fund
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Major cat fund manager Clariden Leu has re-opened its flagship Cat Bond Fund to new capital inflows, seven months after closing its doors in May last year in the face of weak ILS issuance
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The ILS market continues to grow its investor base, drawing in a wider, more geographically balanced pool of investors, Swiss Re says in its annual review of the market
