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The (re)insurance industry is normally vigilant about reminding regulators that they're not banks - dodging the AIG elephant in the room to point out that they got through the crisis fine, thank you very much, and hands off our balance sheets please.
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Summer is supposed to be a time when the reinsurance market can kick back after settling the mid-year renewals before gearing up again for the madness that is the annual Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous
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After a runaway first half for cat bonds, talk about "decoupling" from the reinsurance markets is one of the themes of 2013 as capital market participants take the lead in setting their own pricing.
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Some ILS fund managers might make raking in new mandates look easy, but appearances can be deceptive - going into the sector is not a license to raise money.
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I learned a new word of jargon this week reading about the RMS(one) platform - apparently ecosystems can be technological these days and not just environmental.
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I wonder who first used the term "hot capital" to describe the current investor enthusiasm for the alternative reinsurance market?
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When you think about some of the deals that Berkshire Hathaway has struck in Australasia over the past couple of years it makes you wonder why so much attention is paid to the impact of alternative market capacity on the pricing cycle
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The convergence market has always insisted that it is not in competition with traditional reinsurers
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Club deal seems to be exactly the right term for a private cat bond, with all the cliquey-ness that the term implies
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If I was to pick out the most persistent talking points for the Trading Risk market in 2012, it would be the idea that the convergence market has not only arrived at the party, but is mingling so successfully that barriers between traditional and alternative capacity have broken down.
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This is just my third hurricane season in the industry, so perhaps you'll understand why I'd started writing 2012 off as another non-event for catastrophe losses in mid-October.
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The old saying "no news is good news" occurred to me when I was talking to one of the panellists who'll be speaking at our New York Rendez-Vous this month, as he confessed that he wasn't quite sure what he was going to find to talk about.
