Sidecars, SACs and private cat bonds gaining ground

The dominance of catastrophe bonds in the ILS sector could be challenged by the growth of sidecars....

CATCo Investment Management has appointed Charles Vaughan and Richard Montgomerie as underwriting di...

Eurekahedge and ILS Advisers have released a US dollar hedged version of their benchmark Eurekahedge...

Kane has expanded its US team with two business development hires. The ILS specialist has added Moni...

S&P has respectively lowered to double-C from double-B minus and single-B plus its ratings o...

Fitch expects continued growth in catastrophe bonds from state- and government-sponsored insurance o...

Moody's says it views the risk and required capital reduction from Aetna's medical benefit claims tr...

An open, independent natural catastrophe loss modelling platform has launched after two years in dev...

The insurance-linked securities market experienced a surge in issuance last year to end only US$800m...

Falcon Private Bank has launched the Twelve-Falcon Insurance Opportunities Fund, a dynamic catastrop...

New Ocean Capital Management has launched two reinsurance investment strategies. In addition to capi...

CATCo Investment Management has announced that a distribution of 2.887c will be payable to ordinary...

S&P rated US$5.16bn of catastrophe bonds last year, a slight increase on 2012's total of US$...

Montpelier Re has appointed Daniel Brookman as svp and head of capital markets. He will also serve a...

Validus Holdings has joined with other investors in capitalising its AlphaCat 2014 collateralised si...

Two further collateralised sidecars have been established for the 2014 accident year (see also SCI 6...