Insurance-linked securities (ILS)
Rising systemic risk demands a new risk management paradigm
Reinsurers need insurance-linked securities to share burden of climate-related catastrophic risk
Reinsurance sidecars evolving as competition for third-party capital hots up
Sidecars mimicking ILS funds to lure investors entering collateralised reinsurance space
Australian cyclone derivative ‘proves resilience of traditional cat insurance market’
Innovative weather risk transfer deal exposes limitations of ILS
Extreme mortality bond issuance predicted to expand as spreads tighten
Successful placement of SCOR bond indicates increased investor appetite for life risk
Cat bond sponsors tempt investors with diversified perils and geographies
Innovative structures seek to break dominance of US wind peril over ILS market
Systemic risk debate hots up over variable annuities and ILS
In defence of the non-traditional
Cat bond market poised to boom in 2013
Bond boom
Cat bond issuance this year could rival record 2007
New sponsors contribute to near-record first-half activity setting optimistic mood for rest of the year
Longevity risk transfer market ‘set to boom’ in Japan
Accounting and regulatory changes will drive demand, say participants
Cat product to transfer oil spill risk to capital markets
Catastrophe product looks to capitalise on perceived investor appetite for oil spill risk
Swiss Re launches inaugural trend risk securitisation
Swiss Re launches inaugural trend risk securitisation
New year could see indemnification ILS deal
A new indemnification insurance-linked securitisation is under way and could put an end to a post-crisis dry spell in life ILS early next year