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Conduit Re gets preliminary A- rating as start-up plans progress

Conduit Re, the pure reinsurance start-up looking to raise $1.1 billion with a London Stock Exchange listing and launch in,.. Read More

Breach of a Fiduciary Duty and Negligence by an Insurance Agent or Broker: What is the Difference? | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | Merlin Law Group

Last month, I discussed the difference between insurance agents and insurance brokers, and how the actions of insurance agents, (and,.. Read More

1347 PIH names Swets CEO, reveals $237.75m SPAC connection

1347 Property Insurance Holdings, Inc. continues its transition towards a strategy focused on reinsurance and investment management and has now,.. Read More

Swiss Re sponsoring its fifth Matterhorn Re cat bond of 2020

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has returned to the catastrophe bond market for what will be its fifth transaction of,.. Read More

Institutional investors grew ILS share, as multi-strategy funds exited: Aon

The share of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market attributed to direct institutional investors has increased in recent months, with this,.. Read More

Where possible, climate risk must be explicitly baked into models: Prospectus 2021

As vendor catastrophe models and elevated annual losses show that secondary perils have grown in prevalence for the re/insurance and,.. Read More

PCS Johansmeyer expects capital availability could be a major issue

The implications of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic on the re/insurance market suggests that the availability of capital is going to,.. Read More

AXIS returns to cat bond market for $100m+ Northshore multi-peril deal

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda headquartered global specialty insurance and reinsurance firm, has returned to the catastrophe bond market for the,.. Read More

Connecticuts Matching Statute | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog | Merlin Law Group

Matching can be one of the more difficult and contested issues in the property insurance world. Some jurisdictions address the,.. Read More

Aon launches reinsurance capital advisory unit for Asia Pacific

Broking group Aon has launched an Asia Pacific Capital Advisory unit within its Reinsurance Solutions operation, as it promises to,.. Read More

MSI GuaranteedWeather develops dual-trigger weather derivative

MSI GuaranteedWeather, LLC, a weather risk transfer focused subsidiary of MS&AD’s Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. (MSI), has developed a,.. Read More