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Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has affirmed its credit ratings on the notes of Crystal Credit – Swiss Re’s EUR252mn credit reinsurance securitisation – despite a furth
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As I prepare for the annual Trading Risk executive briefing in New York later this month - called "After the storm... strategies for trading reinsurance risk in 2010" - it is encouraging to see the sh
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The cat bond market seems to be growing increasingly fractious as it elbows its way through its 13th year. This adolescent market - it can be dated back to Hannover Re's Kover in 1994, but is widely a
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Most of us took the news that Hannover Re had given up on the renewal of its Kepler Re sidecar in our stride - just another sidecar hitting the skids. A statistic to add to the more than $6bn+capital
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What's the right price for a cat bond? It's a good question, and one currently rumbling through the market as investors, intermediaries and sponsors debate which benchmark is the most appropriate bas
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Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is as prescient today as it was 150 years ago, and could just as easily have been written to describe the growing pains of the convergence sector as for our
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It may sound inappropriate in these turbulent times, but isn’t this what we’ve all been waiting for? The insurance-linked market finally has the perfect opportunity to prove its worth duri
