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  • Natural catastrophe activity remained near the levels of the previous two years in 2009, though in the absence of a significant fallout from a US hurricane this season insured losses were in the region of only $20bn, according to the latest research from Aon Benfield.
  • Units of the World Bank have launched a Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) designed to enable clearly defined natural catastrophe/weather related insurance cover to be offered to the developing world.
  • The newly launched PERILS European windstorm industry loss index has been chosen as the trigger on two industry loss warranty (ILW) contracts.
  • The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) will pay $8mn to the Government of Haiti as a result of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake which struck close to Port-au-Prince, Haiti on 12 January.
  • Re)insurance management services firm Horseshoe Group is expanding into the Cayman Islands in a bid to capture the cat bond special purpose vehicle (SPV) market.
  • Ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has allocated preliminary ratings of BB+ to US primary insurer Hartford Fire Insurance Co's $100mn Foundation Re III as first revealed by Trading Risk on 13 January.
  • A tranche of Munich Re's $150mn Carillon Ltd US wind cat bond has become the latest of a quartet of Lehman Brothers-affected insurance-linked securitisations to default.
  • Dutch conglomerate ING has completed a $825mn Regulation XXX life transaction using collateral provided by a new capital management facility from Bermudian firm Karson Management.
  • US insurer Travelers Indemnity Co has doubled the size of its US wind cat bond, Longpoint Re II, to $500mn, Trading Risk can reveal.
  • The steep decline in spreads helped to encourage $1.6bn in new ILS issuances among repeat sponsors in the fourth quarter of 2009.