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  • Broker Willis Re is losing Colin Kiddie, who headed the firm's ILW operations, to rival Guy Carpenter only a week after promoting the executive to head its specialty business, Trading Risk's sister publication The Insurance Insider has reported.
  • Hedge fund Fortress Investment Group is in exclusive talks to buy a $6.2bn life settlements portfolio from Belgian bank KBC, according to reports.
  • Hedge fund Blue Mountains is understood to be involved in the launch of a $500mn Bermudian reinsurance and retro start-up, Flex Re.
  • Cat bond sponsors Swiss Re and Axa are set to close their latest bond issues above initial sales targets, Trading Risk understands.
  • Alabama-based Protective Life Insurance expects to close a triple-X securitisation deal by year-end, ceding $900mn of reserves to a captive insurer.
  • Two hedge fund-backed property and casualty (P&C) start-ups are close to defying the soft market by looking to launch later this year, according to (re)insurance entrepreneur Don Kramer.
  • Ratings agency Moody's has downgraded ratings on the upper tranches of Crystal Credit bonds on the back of rising aggregate loss provisions from sponsor Swiss Re.
  • European catastrophe loss aggregator Perils has released loss estimates for a one-in-200-year European windstorm event to help (re)insurers prepare for the impact of Solvency II regulations.
  • A new cat bond brought to market this week will offer both a new sponsor and new peril to ILS investors seeking to snap up diversifying assets, Trading Risk has learned.
  • The insurance-linked capital markets sector needs to continue innovating if it is to attract sponsors to increase catastrophe bond issuance.