Insurance-Linked Securities – Page 2
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Private Placements & Speciality Lines: Sound private arrangements
Diversifying into aviation, marine and energy risks through private placements makes sense from a risk-and-return perspective, writes Anthony Harrington
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Case Studies: Stability through diversity
Rachel Fixsen speaks to PGGM and AP3, two pioneer investors in the insurance-linked market
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Catastrophe Risk: Earth, wind and diversification
Diversification across catastrophe risks between different territories and natural perils is essential, according to Anthony Harrington
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Special ReportInsurance-Linked Securities: Taking the market by storm
Insurance-linked securities are gaining popularity as a diversifying asset class, but what are the available strategies, underlying risks and costs?
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Longevity-linked securities also of use as short-term holdings, researchers argue
Need for higher transparency and better valuation of asset class if it is to succeed
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Pension funds recommend diversification in ILS as rates fall
Industry sees no prospect of rates rising from a catastrophic event, but urge investors to look beyond catastrophe risk
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NewsInstitutional investors inflating catastrophe bond prices, expert says
Twelve Capital chairman says Solvency II will ‘create opportunities’ for European pension funds
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Insurance-Linked Investments: AQR Re: where quakes meet quants
Martin Steward met the reinsurance team established by quantitative asset manager AQR Capital Management
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Insurance-Linked Investments:Integrating catastrophe risk
Reinsurance risk is clearly diversifying against pension funds’ core financial market risks. But Martin Steward writes on the importance of defining objectives beyond simple diversification when investing in this asset class
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Herding cats... and other insurance-linked risks
It is not always easy to tell what someone means when they talk about ‘insurance-linked investments’ – but distinctions are imperative because the various components of this complex market present very different risk and return profiles.
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Consider your options
Options strategies offer premiums for insuring against financial market risks. Joseph Mariathasan looks at strategies that attempt to collect these while protecting against the worst of the tail risks
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Special ReportInsurance-Linked Investments: Berkshire’s leverage
Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller and Lasse H Pedersen unpick Warren Buffett’s business model and find a low-beta quality portfolio leveraged with an insurance float and derivatives
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Appetite for catastrophe
Investors cannot get enough of the catastrophe bond market, writes Charlotte Moore, but the potential for equilibrium, albeit at lower returns, is there
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Insurance-Linked Investments: Doctor in the house?
Lynn Strongin Dodds outlines the importance of quality medical underwriting and ongoing assessment of life expectancies in the traded life policy world
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