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Investment manager names new SF head
AXA Investment Managers has appointed Laurent Gueunier as head of structured finance. He will report...
Job Swaps 8 September 2010 -
Reinsurance pricing weighs on ILS recovery
The ILS market appears to be regaining its confidence following the effective closure it experienced...
News 8 September 2010 -
Capital markets partner recruited
Elana Hahn has joined Morrison & Foerster's capital markets group as partner in its London o...
Job Swaps 8 September 2010 -
Investable ILS tracker fund planned
Partners Group Holding affiliate Alternative Beta Partners is filling the gap between tracking liqui...
News 1 September 2010 -
ILS market going strong
Aon Benfield Securities' ILS annual review says that despite a challenging capital markets environme...
News Round-up 1 September 2010 -
ILS indices launched
Aon Benfield Securities has launched the Aon Benfield ILS Indices, which will provide a quantitative...
News Round-up 18 August 2010 -
Regulatory push
Solvency II to drive more ILS transactions, but could hit use of CLOs
What is widely believed to be the last remaining test of Solvency II, the fifth quantitative impact...
News Analysis 21 July 2010 -
Two becomes one
Cat bond closes with one tranche rather than the expected two
The senior tranche of US hurricane catastrophe bond Shore Re has closed. However, the originally ant...
News Analysis 7 July 2010 -
Navigating the post-crisis landscape
Evan Schwartzberg, head of sales and trading, and Mathew Van Alstyne, head of research at Odeon Capi...
Q: How and when did Odeon Capital Group become involved in the structured finance market? MVA: Odeo...
Provider Profile 9 June 2010 -
Smooth-ish progress
Final pre-hurricane season cat bonds line up
The last three catastrophe bond deals of the 2010 pre-hurricane season have all progressed relativel...
News Analysis 26 May 2010 -
Pension interest
New investors looking at cat bonds as deals keep rolling in
The bevy of catastrophe bond offerings that have come to market recently are garnering interest from...
News Analysis 19 May 2010 -
Pre-hurricane season rush continues
Details of two more potential new catastrophe bonds have emerged over the past week, as price guidan...
News 12 May 2010 -
Cat bond activity increases
More catastrophe bonds have begun marketing, joining the growing deal pipeline (SCI passim) ahead of...
News 5 May 2010 -
Johnston Re cat bond markets
Guy Carpenter is marketing Johnston Re, a US hurricane catastrophe bond offering for ceding reinsure...
News 21 April 2010 -
More cat bonds line up
Catastrophe bond investors have been given headline details of three new deals as speculati...
News 14 April 2010 -
Cat bond sees good execution
State Farm Fire & Casualty's new Merna Re II catastrophe bond (see SCI issue 177) saw "good...
News 7 April 2010