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  • Catastrophe bond sales will quickly regain the $7bn peaks reached in 2007 with more frequent and larger deals as financial markets stabilise, predicts the annual ILS report from broker Aon Benfield Securities.
  • Broker Willis has cleared a US wind futures trade on the IFEX platform at the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE) for the first time yesterday (19 August), in a $1mn block trade.
  • ILS investment manager Nephila Capital has secured A$50mn seed funding for an Australian unit trust, furthering its southern hemisphere connections.
  • A $270,000 US wind futures contract traded yesterday on the IFEX platform at the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE).
  • Secondary trading spreads for US wind and multi-peril catastrophe bonds have risen to levels near the peaks last seen in 2009, as spreads on non-peak perils have tightened to 2007 levels, according to Swiss Re.
  • London's promising summer may have turned into a dismal August, but warm weather has still prompted a flurry of activity in European temperature futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in past weeks.
  • Longevity swaps may have missed out on new concessions for insurance annuity products as part of the most recent Solvency II updates.
  • The meteorologists who have predicted an above-average 2010 storm season are rapidly revising their forecasts after another subdued start.
  • Fresh capital capacity and changing attitudes to asset allocation will renew the market's appetite for US wind cat bonds in the second half of the year, putting it on track for total 2010 ILS volume of $5bn, according to experts.
  • Current market conditions are ripe for another large British pension scheme to transfer risk via a DIY buy-in over the summer, Hymans Robertson liability management specialist James Mullins says.