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• Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre Publishes Fourth Annual Report on Climate Issues

  
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  The Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre (GCACIC), a joint initiative of Guy Carpenter and City University of Hong Kong, today released its fourth annual report presenting the findings of... Continue reading...
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• Willis seeks to grow re/insurance capital markets activity in Asia with new hire

  
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  Global insurance and reinsurance broker Willis Group is seeking to increase its activity in the Asia regions capital market and investment banking focused segment of the re/insurance markets with the announcement of a new hire to its Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA) division. Effective immediately, Michael ...
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• Residential Re 2013 grows to $300m, price guidance drops

  
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  U.S. primary insurer and military focused mutual insurer USAA has become the latest cat bond sponsor to see its new transaction increase in size and pricing expectations for the deal drop due to demand from investors. Residential Reinsurance 2013 Ltd. (Series 2013-1) is the 20th cat bond USAA has sponsored under the ...
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• Intervention symposium – ‘Explosive geographies’

  
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  On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days later, a fertilizer plant located in the town of West, Texas exploded spectacularly, killing 14 and levelling a ...
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• New inflows and return of generalist investors aiding ILS market growth

  
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  The latest quarterly insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market report from Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA) was published late last week. The ILS market report looks at the issued and marketed deals which launched in the first-quarter of this year and discusses some of the emerging trends ...
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• Travelers achieves greater flexibility with Long Point Re III 2013-1 catastrophe bond

  
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  U.S. primary insurer The Travelers Companies, Inc. has successfully sponsored its fourth catastrophe bond transaction with the recently completed Long Point Re III Ltd. (Series 2013-1) transaction. The second issuance under its Long Point Re III Cayman Islands domiciled SPV, this deal secures Travelers a $300m ...
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• Best of Artemis, week ending 19th May 2013

  
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  The reinsurance and capital markets convergence sector continues to grow strongly as the market matures and captures an increasingly large share of global reinsurance renewals. As always, you can read every market news story and article here on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our weekly email newsletter updates ...
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• Tornadoes rip through central US

  
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  | | Related Tornadoes tear through Texas killing 6 16/05/2013 10:04 CET Christmas day tornados kill three in US 26/12/2012 19:33 CET Florida sinkhole search called off, man presumed dead 03/03/2013 08:56 CET US man feared dead after falling into Florida sinkhole ...
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• GC Securities* Completes Catastrophe Bond Long Point Re III Ltd. Series 2013-1 Notes for Travelers

  
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  GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities Corp., a U.S. registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC, today announced the placement of the Series 2013-1 Notes, with notional principal of... Continue reading...
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• Kibbutz ‘residents’ attack Bedouin village in the Naqab

  
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  #NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Maan News Agency | May 19, 2013 NEGEV (Ma’an) — Israelis from a Negev kibbutz attacked a Bedouin village on Sunday, setting fire to a tent, a Ma’an reporter said. Residents from the Kibbutz of Retamim attacked the adjacent Bedouin village of Bir Hadaj and set fire to […]
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• Negev demolitions: ‘War in the full sense’

  
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  #NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Maan News Agency | May 19, 2013 NEGEV (Ma’an) – “What I have seen was like post-war footage rather than home demolition as the Hebrew media misleadingly describe it,” says the head of the Islamic movement in northern Israel Sheikh Raed Salah. Salah’s remarks Sunday came ...
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• Israeli archive file shows that Israel’s founder tried to erase Palestinian Nakba

  
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  #NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! Saturday May 18, 2013 11:06 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies A new report published in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz describes the information found in a newly-uncovered document in the government archives, which reveals that the first Israeli government, including the ...
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• Ukraine deports detained Palestinian refugees to Belarus

  
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  #NAKBA65  | 65 YEARS NAKBA = ENOUGH! [ PIC 18/05/2013 - 06:49 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– Palestinian activists said that the Ukrainian authorities deported to Belarus the Palestinian refugees who had fled from Syria camps towards Ukraine where they had been detained. Working Group for the Palestinians in Syria said in a ...
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• George Michael suffers head injuries after car crash

  
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  George Michael remained hospitalized on Friday, one day after he was injured during a car crash in England. The 49-year-old former star of Wham! was the only person injured when the Range Rover he was traveling in collided with another vehicle. Paramedics airlifted Michael to hospital with head injuries, but his ...
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• Dozens injured as Connecticut

  
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  At least 60 people were injured when two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during the Friday rush hour. Shortly after 6 p.m., an eastbound Metro-North train derailed and hit a westbound train near Fairfield, throwing passengers around and shutting down service between Boston and New York ...
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• United Nations: Economic losses linked to disasters are “out of control”

  
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  A report published by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) suggests that economic losses from natural disasters and catastrophe events have been dramatically underestimated in the past. The report suggests that economic losses from floods, earthquakes and droughts alone have been ...
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• Alternative reinsurance capital could capture 30% of mid-year renewals

  
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  A report, published by the North America research team of financial services and investment banking firm Morgan Stanley , suggests that the mid-year reinsurance renewals could see the participation of alternative reinsurance capital grow to as much as 30%. The report is the result of a research team trip to Bermuda ...
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• 14 years of Artemis, $49 billion worth of catastrophe bond & ILS deals

  
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  On the 12th of May 1999 an internet portal was launched in front of an audience of reinsurance and investment executives in Bermuda. The website launched with a noble goal of raising the profile of what was a new and growing piece of the risk transfer and reinsurance puzzle, removing the mystery that existed in this ...
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• Environmental Dystopians: An Underutilised Genre

  
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  In the plague of dystopians (particularly in the YA world) that’s currently upon us, there’s one thread within the genre that I’d really like to see more of: environmental dystopians. I can think of only a handful off the top of my head (which doesn’t mean there aren’t more), and of those, many had elements ...
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• 65 Years of Nakba: UK pro-Palestine activists to hold Nakba Day demo

  
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  British pro-Palestine activists are to hold Nakba Day demonstration in London on May 15, 2013. PressTV | Sat May 11, 2013 12:48PM GMT Pro-Palestine campaigners from across Britain are to stage a protest in London later this week on Nakba Day, marking the 65th anniversary of evicting Palestinians from their homes by ...
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