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  • Life settlements fight back
    Global life settlement (LS) representative bodies have hit back at recent press coverage that suggests the asset class is a new sub-prime scandal in waiting. A September New York Times article compar
    06 October 2009
  • Late push for $3-4bn ILS target
    The ILS market may be in line for its fabled $2-2.5bn new issuance in the latter months of 2009, as real deals begin to hit the market, Trading Risk understands. With more than $3bn of ILS capacity m
    06 October 2009
  • Lehman-struck bonds rally on collateral gains
    The secondary market pricing of two cat bonds struck by the bankruptcy of total return swap (TRS) counterparty Lehman Brothers has increased by a third since mid-summer, after a rally in underlying c
    06 October 2009
  • Kus forms new ILS venture
    Former RBS executives Henry Kus and Bjorn Schmolck have launched dedicated ILS vehicle Traymar Capital Ltd and are understood to be in negotiation with potential capital providers to start a series o
    06 October 2009
  • US P&C insurer profits slump 59% as economic turmoil bites
    The twin impact of the financial markets turmoil and the recession are clear to see in first half figures for the US property and casualty industry, with both the top and bottom line heavily hit. Acc
    06 October 2009
  • Ozizmir joins Trading Risk Awards judging panel
    Dan Ozizmir, convergence market rainmaker and former head of Swiss Re Capital Markets (SRCM), has joined the judging panel for the Trading Risk Awards 2010. The annual Awards, launched with great suc
    06 October 2009
  • Northwind further downgraded
    Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the underlying rating of approximately $721mn of UNUM Group’s Northwind life securitisation to Baa1 from A2, citing the “adverse impact of i
    06 October 2009
  • Guy Carpenter launches ILS desk
    GC Securities has launched a New York-based ILS trading desk to complement its index trading activities and to boost cat bond liquidity. The desk, which gained full approval in June, will be run by
    06 October 2009
  • Swiss Re expands Ethiopia weather project
    Swiss Re has extended its partnership with Oxfam America on introducing weather insurance for a staple cereal crop to a further four Ethiopian villages. The pilot project, in drought-prone Adi Ha, sa
    06 October 2009
  • Green shoots for hedge funds
    Hedge fund participation in 2009 ILS transactions has increased more than four-fold since 2008, although their slice of the overall pie has shrunk by more than half since 2007, according to industry
    06 October 2009
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