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  • The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and US broker-dealer Guggenheim Securities are both planning to launch transformer vehicles in Bermuda.
  • UK construction company Aggregate Industries has hedged £300mn of its pension scheme longevity exposure in two transactions with leading longevity specialist Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).
  • US reinsurance broker Tradition Re completed a $4mn derivative dutch auction yesterday (2 March) to hedge an unnamed reinsurer’s Florida wind exposure, in the first transaction of its kind.
  • Swiss Re has launched four new tranches of its long-running Successor series of cat bonds, including one European wind tranche triggered by untested industry loss index Perils, Trading Risk can reveal.
  • More than EUR1.3bn of cat bond capacity is potentially exposed to loss following this weekend’s devasting European windstorm Xynthia, according to Trading Risk data.
  • The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has voiced "significant concerns" about how life settlements products are sold to retail investors saying that the investment risk to consumers is "often downplayed", according to Peter Smith, head of investment in the UK regulator's policy department.
  • German car maker BMW has hedged almost £3bn of longevity risks in its UK operations pension scheme in the largest longevity hedge to date for the sector.
  • Strong 2009 performances and financial markets stabilisation have funnelled additional capacity into the convergence sector, with Axa and Q Re deploying new funds at the start of 2010.
  • AXA Investment Managers allocates EUR76bn of funds across alternative asset classes. The firm's ILS manager, Christophe Fritsch, explains why the firm chooses (re)insurance risk...
  • The Thai subsidiary of Sompo Japan Insurance has launched an index-based weather insurance product to provide cover for rice farmers against drought in Northeast Thailand.