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  • Swiss-based ILS fund manager Clariden Leu has closed a new $50mn ‘cat bond lite' deal, selling the investments on to third parties for the first time, Trading Risk can reveal.
  • Start-up collateralised reinsurer Catco says it has deployed $700mn of retro reinsurance capacity in the market since it began operations last December, giving a clue to the size of its private investment funds for the first time.
  • Prices for peak US wind industry loss warranties (ILWs) have risen by 5 to 25 percent this year on high loss tolls, wind model changes and a shortage of retro capacity, according to broker JLT Re.
  • Argo Re has closed its first cat bond Loma Re, raising its target of $100mn to provide the firm with multi-peril reinsurance protection, Trading Risk understands.
  • Nimble non-traditional forms of reinsurance capacity could wipe out rate hardening in the wake of natural catastrophes, an analyst has said.
  • A Pennsylvania state pension plan has approved a proposed $250mn investment in Nephila Capital's Palmetto Fund, taking the hedge fund's overall assets under management well over $4bn.
  • Standard & Poor's has lowered its ratings on a tranche of Swiss Re's extreme mortality bond Vita Capital IV due to the high casualty toll from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
  • UBS trader Al Selius has hired former colleague Jay Green as executive director in his ILS trading unit, Trading Risk can reveal.
  • Clariden Leu shuts doors to cash influx; Alternative beta for Australian fund; Greenlight reports lossTraymar courts private equity for $100mn life settlement fund
  • A handful of small to mid-sized European ILS fund managers have succeeded in riding the wave of interest in insurance-linked investments by raising over $250mn in recent weeks, Trading Risk can reveal.