All the headlines from our Insurance Linked Securities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2015 // The Economist’s Insurance 2015 Conference, which took place on Tuesday, March 15, at the ornate Clothworkers Hall in London, featured a panel that expressed the views of insurers, brokers and their clients in a...
Jan 28 2015 // The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) has issued a lengthy defense of its primary position as the “domicile of choice” for insurance linked securities (ILS); pointing out that 57 percent of such securities issued in...
Jan 20 2015 // Aon Benfield’s Reinsurance Market Analysis describes the participants as having “reached the end of a 15 year journey, featuring chronological stages of alternative capital’s significance, completion and...
Jan 16 2015 // Property catastrophe bond issuance for the fourth quarter 2014 stood at USD$2.1 billion across six separate transactions, contributing to a record annual property catastrophe bond issuance of USD$8.0 billion, according to...
Oct 1 2014 // Jeff Kingsley, a partner with the law firm of Goldberg and Segalla, specializes in technology risks, notably cyber liability and cyber risk, an emerging sector with many variables and pit falls for the unwary, which he...
Sep 11 2014 // Alternative capital has captured approximately a 20 percent market share of property catastrophe reinsurance volume.That news came our of Aon Benfield Securities, which issued its annual report on the insurance-linked...
Jul 29 2014 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services will publish its annual “Global Reinsurance Highlights” publication to coincide with the 2014 Reinsurance Rendez-Vous in September. S&P said the report would...
Jul 9 2014 // Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield in its latest report on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, reveals that 12 catastrophe...
Jul 7 2014 // The largest ever volume of non-life catastrophe bonds was issued during the second quarter of 2014 (Q2), according to a report by Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA), part of Willis Group Holdings.The Willis...
Apr 14 2014 // Willis Group Holdings plc announced two key appointments to further strengthen its capital markets division, Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA).Rui Huang joins Willis as Senior Vice President. He is based in Hong...
Mar 4 2014 // The Bermuda-based Argo Group International Holdings announced that its Bermuda-based reinsurance company, Argo Re, Ltd., has entered into an agreement with Horseshoe Re Limited that will expand its reinsurance product...
Jan 14 2014 // In its latest report Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield, noted that the fourth quarter of 2014 continued to see more...
Dec 12 2013 // Funds specializing in insurance-linked risks such as catastrophe bonds are benefiting as the $30 trillion pension industry increases bets in a market that hasn’t posted an annual loss.At Leadenhall Capital Partners...
Sep 11 2013 // The 57th Reinsurance Rendez-vous is winding down, and, while it’s been another successful networking opportunity for the re/insurance industry’s movers and shakers, most of the discussions have ended on a note...
Aug 1 2013 // Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield, has issued it latest report – The Insurance-Linked Securities Second Quarter 2013 Update...
Jul 26 2013 // XL Group and private equity firm Stone Point Capital LLC have announced the formation of a new Bermuda-based company to act as an investment manager in insurance-linked securities (ILS) and other reinsurance capital...
Jul 25 2013 // Towers Watson Capital Markets Inc., a subsidiary of global professional services company Towers Watson, announced it recently arranged a private placement catastrophe bond, Sullivan Re 2013-1, which closed at $60 million....
Jul 24 2013 // “The second quarter of 2013 saw $2.2 billion of non-life catastrophe bonds issued through 14 tranches (representing 10 deals), compared with $2.1 billion issued in Q2 2012 through 12 tranches (representing 7...
Jun 11 2013 // When the Geneva Association’s presentation on how and why governments and re/insurers need to work more closely adjourned, we were able to talk to the organization’s Secretary General, John Fitzpatrick, a...
May 22 2013 // The first quarter of 2013 saw $1.6 billion of new issuance in non-life capacity marketed through five catastrophe bond transactions, including three transactions marketed in the first quarter and closed at the beginning of...