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  • Swiss Re expands African weather derivatives
    Swiss Re and the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) closed a weather derivatives contract in October to hedge against loss of maize crops as a result of drought in Malawi.
    03 November 2008
  • Hannover Re renews two sidecars as rates harden
    Hannover Re is currently marketing two new sidecars with combined capacity of up to $740mn raising the question whether the quota share vehicle will regain popularity with (re)insurers if property ca
    03 November 2008
  • Lehman bonds trade at distressed levels
    Four cat bonds guaranteed by failed investment bank Lehman Brothers have had “limited trading” in the secondary market at “distressed levels”, according to dealers. Tranches o
    03 November 2008
  • Hannover invests $30mn in secondary
    Hannover Re’s dedicated ILS department has recently bought about $30mn of life and non-life bonds in the secondary market. The department’s head, Henning Ludolphs told Trading Risk that h
    03 November 2008
  • Four Lehman-backed cat bonds downgraded to junk status
    Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded four cat bonds guaranteed by failed investment bank Lehman Brothers in October, signalling further contagion of the financial sector crisis in
    03 November 2008
  • Fears mount for FHCF solvency crisis
    The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF) has a claims-paying shortfall of around 50 percent of its insurance obligations, with access to liquidity dryingup in the credit crisis, according to mar
    03 November 2008
  • Record month for ILS trading; Market showing 'fatigue'
    October is set to be the busiest month of the year for secondary trading of cat bonds, as the global financial crisis spills over into the insurance linked securities (ILS) sector. Broker-dealer Swis
    03 November 2008
  • Industry takes Ike pounding; no cat bonds triggered
    Modelling firm Risk Management Solutions (RMS) almost doubled its initial estimate for industry losses from Hurricane Ike to a range of $13bn to $21bn last month – making it the third most expe
    03 November 2008
  • Vyapar's 'swaption' for forward pricing transparency
    Inter-dealer broker Vyapar Capital Partners LLC has launched a new catastrophe derivative product, aimed at establishing a forward market for reinsurance pricing. The instrument, called a Swaption, w
    03 November 2008
  • Credit crisis will boost cat futures trading; Carvill
    Reinsurance broker Carvill expects exchange-traded catastrophe futures to be “one of the better investment areas” for (re)insurance companies, as the financial crisis rocks the sector.
    03 November 2008
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