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Do other industries talk about pie as much as the reinsurance sector?
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The alternative reinsurance market now looks like it has come full circle as one of the industry's longest-standing fund managers looks to set up a rated equity-funded vehicle
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One of the questions the reinsurance market has been grappling with over the past year is how to make a "strategic sidecar" work
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While most people in the northern hemisphere are on alert for barbecue weather this summer, reinsurance executives will be on a different type of weather watch - closely tracking tropical storm updates for potential threats to their portfolios
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The reinsurance market has been asking itself the dreaded "are we there yet" question for quite some time now as it waits to see when rates will stabilise.
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Reinsurance underwriters place a high value on building up strong relationships with brokers and counterparties, so it's no surprise that talk about the direction of the current market tends to sound like someone reeling from a painful break-up.
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Earlier this year we covered a speech from Scor CEO Denis Kessler, in which he suggested that the ILS market had been fuelled by ultra-low interest rates - and that the end of quantitative easing in the US would lessen the sector's appeal.
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It's maybe a bit ironic for the editor of a convergence magazine to be sceptical of the impact that new capital vehicles will have on the market.
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One of the perks of working for Insider Publishing is that the events we put on make for some great copy.
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All the kerfuffle at last year's Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous about allegedly naive capital and declining cat bond premiums seems quite ironic now that the January renewals are behind us.
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This is my last deadline of the year, so sympathies to those who will still be plugging away on renewals until the New Year.
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After Monte Carlo, Baden-Baden, Trading Risk New York and this month's ILS gathering in Bermuda, the autumn 2013 conference season will be almost at an end, but have all the talk-fests got the sector any closer to knowing what will happen at the 1 January renewals and the mid-year 2014 renewals?
