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Reinsurance returns – lower and lower
October 29, 2014The latest pricing data indicates that returns have slipped further for both the cat bond and reinsurance markets The third quarter has not been an active one for new reinsurance deals or cat […]
READ MOREFay & Gonzalo: A Tale of Two Storms
October 29, 2014Bermuda was hammered by two tropical cyclones in less than a week, Fay and Gonzalo. But hitting Bermuda was one of the few things the storms […]
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Retail Investors – the third wave
October 20, 2014A new type of investor – the retail investor – is rapidly becoming a major force in the capitalisation of the reinsurance industrySince 2005 there […]
READ MORENothing Happened: PCS Q3 2014 Catastrophe Bond Report
October 8, 2014Catastrophe bond issuance remained at $5.7 billion through the end of September but still topped the same period in 2013. Despite the absence of property […]
READ MORE2014 hurricane update with NASA’s Dr Tim Hall
September 2, 2014It has been a quiet year for Atlantic hurricanes, and it is increasingly likely to stay that way. In the first of a series of […]
READ MORESeismology on firmer ground
August 28, 2014The cat bond and reinsurance markets are likely to be affected by a new study by the US Geological Survey. It concludes that, in many […]
READ MOREThe rise of the insurance linked fund
August 28, 2014For hundreds of years reinsurance was sold by reinsurers. In the early 2000s, a handful of specialist fund managers began to construct portfolios of catastrophe […]
READ MOREA brief history of cat bond prices – part one
June 2, 2014We analysed twelve years of data to try to understand the causes of the big changes in the market price of catastrophe bonds Cat bond […]
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