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The road ahead: 2020 predictions for Bermuda and ILS

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) on Bermuda have had an interesting few years, as the market continues to evolve to meet strong demand.   23 December 2019

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Triangle Re issues three mortgage ILNs

Genworth Mortgage Insurance (Genworth MI), a subsidiary of Genworth Mortgage Insurance, has obtained $302.8 million of fully collateralised excess of loss reinsurance coverage from Triangle Re 2019-1 (Triangle Re).   22 November 2019

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Aon unveils Randolph Re, its private placement ILS platform

Aon Securities, Aon’s investment banking division, has launched Randolph Re, a new private placement catastrophe bond platform.   21 November 2019

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Willis Re Securities completes €120m ILS for Covéa Mutual

Willis Re Securities has structured and placed €120 million of ILS to provide reinsurance capacity for Covéa Mutual Insurance Group, France’s largest domestic P&C insurance group.   19 November 2019

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Artex completes its acquisition of Horseshoe

Artex Risk Solutions has completed its purchase of Horseshoe Insurance Services Holdings.   18 November 2019

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Q3 non-life ILS capacity at near-record high of $27.3bn: Willis

The value of non-life capacity issued and outstanding at the end of the third quarter was at a near-record high of $27.3 billion, exceeded only by the year-end figure of $27.8 billion for 2018, according to the new ILS Market Update from Willis Re Securities.   1 November 2019

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Reinsurers failing to help insurers manage cyber exposures, warns Hiscox Re

The reinsurance market is not yet providing a “suitable, sustainable, and scalable response to meet the challenge of a cyber catastrophe,” according to Devin Page, head of specialty reinsurance at Hiscox Re.   20 October 2019

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Protecting the Belt & Road

China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the economic project which aims to recreate the ancient Silk Road that linked Europe to Asia, needs protecting. ILS could provide the perfect solution, as Kirill K. Savrassov, chief executive of Phoenix CRetro Reinsurance Company, tells Bermuda:Re+ILS.   20 October 2019

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Buyers bemoan ILS need for models

While the ILS sector continues to grow and innovate, investors’ insistence on the use of tried and tested risk models, combined with a wariness of new risks, is holding the market’s development back, some cedants claim. Bermuda:Re+ILS investigates.   20 October 2019

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Cyber reinsurers need ILS, ILS needs cyber reinsurers

As reinsurers grapple with the opportunities and challenges presented by cyber risk, ILS could provide at least some of the solutions. Tom Johansmeyer, head of PCS, reviews the prospects that cyber opens up.   20 October 2019

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