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Ten months on from Typhoon Jebi, there is still considerable uncertainty around why the storm’s insured losses are expected to be so much higher than the initial modelled figures...
Insurance claims for Typhoon Jebi have nearly doubled to reach $9.9bn (1067bn yen), the General Insurance Association of Japan has said...
Net assets in Oppenheimer’s Event Linked Bond Fund dropped by $4.4mn to $368.8mn in the six months to 31 March 2019, as it was impacted by cat bond write-downs.
Losses transferred to Everest Re’s Mt Logan Re sidecar more than doubled year on year to $45.6mn in the first quarter...
The ratings agency has warned that, if reinsurers and ILS fund managers fail to price differentiate among carriers, they will contribute to the commoditisation of catastrophic risk...
The ongoing loss creep hitting the reinsurance industry from Hurricane Irma strongly indicates that models should more appropriately account for human-driven claims inflation...
Experts at Trading Risk’s London ILS Conference gave a mixed report on investor appetite and opportunities in the sector...
Robert Howie points to side-pockets as the big issue of 2018...
The discontinued special purpose arrangement ran up a £51.8mn loss in 2018 as prior-year claims deteriorated...
Syndicate 2357 had escaped a reinsurance loss in 2017 but the segment fell to an $84.2mn loss in 2018...
