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  • Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance, the state insurer of last resort, is set to close its first cat bond Pelican Re at $125mn, Trading Risk understands.
  • New capital continues to be drawn to the insurance industry as the rating environment improves but it is seeking different entries to the market than in previous years as the start-up model falls out of favour, the Willis Re "1st View" report on the April renewals says.
  • Mitsui Sumitomo's Japanese typhoon bond Akibare II will close $40mn above target at $130mn, Trading Risk understands.
  • Allianz will close its new US hurricane and quake cat bond Blue Danube at $240mn, up from a target of $200mn, Trading Risk understands
  • Swiss Re's Sigma research unit has estimated a record $49bn of earthquake losses in 2011, helping to take the estimate of total insured natural catastrophe losses to $116bn for the year.
  • Asset management giant BlackRock is looking to make its first direct foray into the (re)insurance industry through a $300mn quota share partnership with Swiss Re focusing on peak catastrophe risk, sister publication The Insurance Insider has revealed
  • Industry group the Life and Longevity Markets Association (LLMA) has launched a set of four longevity indices that can be used as a benchmark for the transfer of longevity and mortality risk.
  • Swiss Re has closed its new multi-sponsor cat bond Combine Re on target at $200mn, marking a new milestone for the breadth of the ILS investor base since the financial crisis of 2008-9.
  • Mexico is planning to transfer nearly all its federal catastrophe risk to the capital markets after pioneering the first sovereign parametric cat bond in 2006.
  • Modelling firm Eqecat estimates that the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck 300km south of Mexico City overnight on 20 March will cost the insurance industry less than $100mn.