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Vecta 1 closes
Vecta 1, Aurigen Reinsurance's embedded value life securitisation (SCI 19 December 2011), has closed...
News Round-up 3 January 2012 -
Life securitisation marketing
Credit Agricole Securities (USA) is marketing an embedded value life securitisation for Aurigen Rein...
News Round-up 19 December 2011 -
SCI Start the Week - 19 December
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days
PipelineThree new deals remained in the pipeline at the end of last week, all of them from Europe. T...
News 19 December 2011 -
SCI Start the Week - 12 December
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days
PipelineA variety of deals joined the pipeline last week. In ABS there are two new deals: a US$494.1...
News 12 December 2011 -
Cat bond issuance increasing, diversifying
There were four catastrophe bond issuances in 3Q11, representing US$676m of new risk capital, notes...
News Round-up 9 November 2011 -
GAM launches new cat bond fund
Alternative investment manager GAM has launched a UCITs-compliant fund investing in securitised insu...
News Round-up 7 November 2011 -
SCI Start the Week - 31 October
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days
PipelineA CMBS (US$1.09bn WFRBS 2011-C5), a catastrophe bond (US$50m Successor X series 2011-3), a p...
News 31 October 2011 -
ILS head hired
Michael Popkin has been appointed co-head of insurance-linked securities (ILS) for Towers Watson Cap...
Job Swaps 19 October 2011 -
SCI Start the Week - 17 October
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days
PipelineFurther details of Credit Suisse Asset Management's latest CLO - the US$365.5m Atr...
News 17 October 2011 -
SCI Start the Week - 10 October
A look at the major activity in structured finance over the past seven days
PipelineEuropean transactions dominated the pipeline by the end of last week. It comprised two sizea...
News 10 October 2011 -
ILS pro moves on
Noah Schiltknecht has joined Russell Investments in New Zealand as a consultant. He most recently wo...
Job Swaps 28 September 2011 -
ILS fund minted
SCOR Alternative Investments has launched an insurance-linked securities fund dubbed Atropos. Domici...
News Round-up 27 September 2011 -
Walkers forms ILS group
Law firm Walkers is launching an insurance-linked securities (ILS) group, bringing together the expe...
Job Swaps 7 September 2011 -
Oil spill risk set for securitisation
CatVest Petroleum Services, a newly-formed company focused on providing insurance-linked securities...
News 16 August 2011 -
ILS muted after turbulent start to year
Despite significant catastrophic events and a change to RMS' US hurricane model, the insurance-linke...
News Round-up 5 August 2011 -
Unusual wind bond marketing
Natixis is marketing a new euro-denominated two-tranche catastrophe bond - Pylon II Capita...
News Round-up 26 July 2011