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  • Asset manager Alternative Beta Partners (ABP) plans to launch a tracker fund to complement its new ILS index, allowing investors the option to trade on the entire ILS universe.
  • US hedge fund manager Horton Point is marketing a dedicated ILS fund to investors as it rethinks its multi-strategy offerings in the wake of the credit crisis.
  • The second hurricane of the season, Danielle, has weakened as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean although the storm may still regain strength, according to forecasts from the US National Hurricane Center.
  • Leading ILS investor Clariden Leu has closed a groundbreaking ILS transaction, using the securitisation power of its Swiss bank franchise to transform insurance risk into much-needed investments for its flagship Cat Bond Fund, Trading Risk can reveal.
  • Trade body the Life and Longevity Markets Association (LLMA) is getting closer to its goal of releasing a standard index to help boost trading in the nascent longevity risk market, as it publishes a draft framework on building such indices.
  • 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.