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Profile: Swiss Re's Raj Singh
Swiss Re, along with other insurers, is setting its sights on catastrophe risk. Alexander Campbell speaks to its chief risk officer, Raj Singh
Since the financial crisis the insurance-linked securities market has been squeezed into a tight corridor of issuance with only natural catastrophe bonds seeing any traction – a blow for a market that...
The threat to people’s health from nanotechnology means insurers could be exposed to claims on a scale similar to the asbestos scares of the 20th century, according to Zurich-based Swiss Reinsurance....
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Cat bonds return
The market for catastrophe bonds dried up in 2008 and early 2009 as the financial crisis took its toll. Confidence is returning, helped by wide spreads and a re-think about the assets used to collateralise catastrophe bonds, but issuance has yet to return...
Predicting the unthinkable
Raj Singh, chief risk officer at Swiss Re, talks to Alexander Campbell
Cutting credit
Weaknesses in the structural make-up of catastrophe bonds, exposed by Lehman Brothers' collapse, have prompted issuers to introduce a series of updates to the asset class aimed at de-correlating insurance risk from credit risk. Hardeep Dhillon reports...
Point Carbon launches US power trading product
Point Carbon, an energy and environmental market analyst, has launched its first power trading analytics tool for the North American market.
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CME Group has acquired the Carvill Hurricane Index from Carvill America Inc. and renamed it the CME Hurricane Index.
Catastrophe Risk - Catastrophe insurers spot Asian markets potential
Significant underinsurance of life and property in disasters such as the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China, could pave the way to a lucrative Asian market for catastrophe insurance, according to a study by Zurich-based Swiss Re. The report recommends...
Die Lehren aus der Katastrophe
Seit die US-Golfküste im Jahr 2005 von Hurrikan Katrina heimgesucht wurde, haben die Versicherungen hoch entwickelte Katastrophenrisikomodelle implementiert. Welche Ergebnisse haben diese Produkte gezeigt; und kann der Bankensektor etwas von ihnen lernen?...
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