January 2012/1

Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has reached $4.4bn insurance-linked assets under management and launched a number of new funds targeting less liquid investments, Trading Risk can reveal

Leadenhall Capital Partners CEO Luca Albertini says winning a new £200mn life insurance-linked mandate will move the firm up a league in the ILS fund manager world

ILW volumes will rise 25% in 2012, predicts Willis Re's Henry Kingham. He looks at the factors that put the wind in his sails...

Reinsurance buyers are taking more interest in capital market solutions after a fragmented and difficult January renewal season, according to the two largest reinsurance brokers

2011 is the second most expensive year for cat losses that the (re)insurance industry has ever endured with between $100bn and $106bn of claims. But the geographical distribution of losses was still more striking than the quantum

Thailand is looking to establish a 50bn baht ($1.62bn) catastrophe fund that could seek to buy a giant reinsurance programme up to a limit of 500bn baht ($16.2bn) from international carriers

The new RMS hurricane model may not have moved cat bond pricing, but its release has taken a toll on the modelling agency's market share in the new issuance market

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) traded 1,500 seasonal hurricane options representing $15mn of notional limit in January, according to information from the exchange

Swiss-based ILS fund manager Clariden Leu has transformed a further $50mn industry loss warranty (ILW) into note form, taking the total cat bond "lites" issued by the firm to $120mn

Callahan joins award panel; Hinshelwood to head revamped Kane; Fitch knocks Signum down a notch; BSX surges past $3bn of cat bonds

Two recent billion-dollar transactions completed a stellar year for the longevity swap market, which posted volumes of more than £6bn insuring against the risk of pensioners living longer than expected

The Swiss Re global cat bond price return index has gradually been shedding value over the final quarter of 2011 to start 2012 at a similar level to that recorded after the March earthquake in Japan