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In recent years, as we approached the US wind season, the ILS market would be in the throes of a feeding frenzy, with investors gorging on offering circulars until they had to roll away and digest the contents of their stomach.
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I'm too young to remember the infamous London smogs of the 1950s, or pea-soupers, as the impregnable clouds of coal, industrial emissions and Thames-borne fog were nicknamed.
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The fact that capital markets investors in the (re)insurance arena are facing natural catastrophe-related claims should not be viewed in a negative light.
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Mother Nature once again reminded us of her power at the dawn of 2011, with tornadoes and hailstorms across the US Midwest states almost attempting to batter the new year back from whence it came.
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Who would have thought we would be here today, watching the ILS issuance ticker push above the $5bn mark for the year?
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As we enter the European wind season with gusto, investor pricing thresholds seem to have swept peril diversification and the energy sector off the top of the market's agenda.
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The flexibility of capital is much vaunted as a positive side effect of convergence, and I tend to agree.
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For a while now, the use of the words "indemnity" and "cat bond" in the same sentence has been met with a curling of the lip and a reflexive recoil from a contingent of cat fund investors.
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Losses from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) threaten to spill over into the convergence market, as various industry loss warranty (ILW) and collateralised reinsurance programmes could be triggered by the estimated $2bn event.
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Spring has sprung in London and the optimistic spirit of renewal and growth appears to have filtered into the insurance-linked market... -
With more bad news emerging from the insurance-linked derivative sector this month, one could be forgiven for reaching for the quill and penning the obituary of exchange-traded (re)insurance risk.
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Following the recent ILS trend, the December issue of Trading Risk is a bumper one - increasing in size during production to 20 pages.
