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  • The first pure US wind bond of 2011 will be a $100mn offering from repeat cat bond sponsor The Hartford under the US insurer's Foundation Re shelf vehicle, Trading Risk understands.
  • (Re)insurers may be comfortable transferring risk to the capital markets through cat bonds but they could also be making more use of derivative instruments to offload their risk to a wider investment base, London-based boutique investment bank Brave Partners said.
  • Ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the Avondale Securities life insurance-linked notes in line with its downgrade of sponsor Bank of Ireland on 2 February.
  • Ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) says it does not expect catastrophe bond issue to rise significantly in 2011, despite increased investor demand, as the soft reinsurance market and low catastrophe toll will hold back growth.
  • AIR Worldwide has put an estimate of insured losses from the Category 5 Cyclone Yasi that hit Australia's east coast at midnight Wednesday (2 February) at between A$350mn ($354mn) and A$1.5bn.
  • Clariden Leu - which launched the first UCITS III-compliant cat fund in November last year - has teamed up with German distributor Fundmatrix.
  • Swiss ILS managers, Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) and Clariden Leu, have seen $700mn of new fund inflows, Trading Risk can reveal.
  • Swiss investment manager Secquaero Advisors plans to launch a new Luxembourg ILS fund under its UCITS III-compliant platform set up by Decision Analytics.
  • The market share of dedicated cat funds in new ILS offerings has fallen by 30 percent since 2008 to comprise under half the market in 2010, recent research by Munich Re has shown.
  • Elementum Capital's founding principal John DeCaro calls for more reinsurance discipline in cat bond marketing, and shares his morning routine...