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• Best of Artemis, week ending 29th January 2012

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  It’s been another busy week in the cat bond, insurance-linked securities and reinsurance markets and we’ve had a lot of new topics to cover. As well as our usual market news and analysis we’ve published some interviews which asked leading market participants for their predictions for the year ahead, ...
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• Are Home Inventory Lists Important?

  
  College Debt Tips and Advice — Authority: 133
  Terrible things will not happen to them, is what most people seem to think. Its clich?, and you have probably heard it before. It is not even an accurate statement. The truth is, catastrophe like tornados, earthquakes, flooding, and more, can happen all the time. And for the belongings within your home, these types ...
  1 day ago

• Iran moving closer to stage where it will be too late to destroy nuclear facilities, Israel warns

  
  Jehovah's Witnesses News and Archive — Authority: 139
  Iran is moving closer to the point when it will be too late to destroy its nuclear facilities with a precision air strike, Israels defence minister has warned. Reviving Western concerns that his government is still contemplating unilateral military action against  Iran , Ehud Barak gave one of the ...
  2 days ago

• $63m of Successor X Ltd. Series 2012-1 notes list on Cayman stock exchange

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  Swiss Re’s latest Successor X Ltd. catastrophe bond transaction appears to have completed as two tranches of notes have listed on the Cayman Islands stock exchange. Initially the Successor X Ltd. Series 2012-1 deal was constructed of three tranches of notes, but just two have listed on the exchange. We’re ...
  3 days ago

• Aetna completes Vitality Re III Ltd. medical benefit insurance-linked security

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  Aetna have completed their third insurance-linked security transaction which allows them to transfer the risk of catastrophic levels of medical benefit claims hitting the firm. The $150m medical benefit linked ILS issued through Cayman Island domiciled Vitality Re III Ltd. provides catastrophe bond type cover to ...
  3 days ago

• Bermuda based investment manager Juniperus Capital sold to Aquiline Capital Partners

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  Bermuda based catastrophe, insurance-linked securities and reinsurance-linked investment manager Juniperus Capital (and it’s Juniperus Insurance Opportunity Fund) has been sold to private-equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners who have bought out their existing shareholders. Founded in 2008 by Benfield, ...
  3 days ago

• Predictions for 2012: Luca Albertini, Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  In the third of our prediction pieces, where we ask a leading participant in the insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bond and reinsurance convergence sectors to give us their opinion on how these sectors will evolve in 2012, we spoke with Luca Albertini, CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP , an investment ...
  5 days ago

• Comic Preview: The Amazing Spider-Man #678, “I Killed Tomorrow, Part 1 of 2: Schrodinger’s Catastrophe”.

  
  PDX Comic Geek — Authority: 110
  Amazing Spider-Man #678 So Spider-Man has it all together.  A decent job in a wonderful city, life is so good he decides it’s best to walk to work.  See, there’s a fatal flaw in his thinking; whenever things are going well for Peter Parker, it’s a great time to get out of New York, because the place is about ...
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• Record U.S. crop insurance payments in 2011

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  2011 was a year that saw a lot of records broken in weather and natural disaster events, the results of which were insured losses for the year of between $105 billion to $110 billion across the globe . Now data has been published which shows that U.S. crop insurance claims payments have hit a record for 2011, thanks ...
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• The Iranian oil embargo: does this mean war?

  
  Jehovah's Witnesses News and Archive — Authority: 139
  The EU has decided on sanctions that Tehran has long said would represent a declaration of war . What will follow? The decision to impose an EU  oil  embargo on  Iran , agreed on Monday by European foreign ministers, sets a potential bomb ticking, timed to detonate on 1 July. ...
  6 days ago

• Odds Of A Greek Debt Default Disaster And Exit From The Euro Are On The Rise

  
  Jehovah's Witnesses News and Archive — Authority: 139
  Moodys  downgraded  five Greek covered bond transactions today, amid ongoing tensions over private sector involvement in an orderly default that needs to take place by late March. But more interesting than the downgrades is the rating agencys outlook for Greece, which it says is rapidly deteriorating. ...
  6 days ago

• Costa Concordia Cruise Ship

  
  Smoat — Authority: 143
  13 Confirmed Dead From Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Disaster – dbtechno.com Did Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Captain rescue his laptop? Search and rescue attempts continue on the Costa Concordia cruise ship, as divers use high explosives to gain access to the ship’s interior, in their search for missing passengers. ...
  1 week ago

• Best of Artemis, week ending 22nd January 2012

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market has got off to a busy start in 2012, with five transactions being marketed and another cat bond lite having been issued. In the last week we’ve also seen more discussion of cat bonds for U.S. State windstorm insurance providers, capital raising news, ...
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• Exxon Mobil to Pay $1.6 Million in Penalties for Yellowstone River Oil Spill

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 124
  Exxon Mobil has reached an agreement with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to pay $1.6 million in penalties over the Yellowstone River oil spill, according to the Associated Press Rachel Bogart | Yahoo! News | Jan 2, 2012 The agreement specifically details that the oil company ...
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• Further details on Embarcadero Re Ltd. Series 2012-1 California quake cat bond

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  More details have been published on the second California Earthquake Authority catastrophe bond to be issued through the dedicated Bermuda domiciled Embarcadero Re Ltd. SPV. The CEA is issuing another cat bond (as we revealed yesterday ) to secure an increased level of cover for earthquakes impacting California on ...
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• Second Embarcadero Re cat bond being marketed for California Earthquake Authority

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  As expected , the California Earthquake Authority are returning to the catastrophe bond market to issue another cat bond using their Embarcadero Re Ltd. Bermuda based SPV. The first Embarcadero Re deal was issued in August last year and it secured them $150m of cover. Now, sources have confirmed to us that the ...
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• Capital markets pioneer takes over as Willis Re CEO

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  John Cavanagh, a senior reinsurance industry figure with a history of capital markets and insurance-linked securities experience, is taking over as CEO of Willis Re , the reinsurance broking arm of Willis Group. Cavanagh succeeds Steve Hearn who moves on to become Chairman and CEO of Willis Global. The appointment of ...
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• Swiss Re: ILS market poised for continued growth in 2012

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 119
  Reinsurer Swiss Re has published their insurance-linked security and catastrophe bond market update which looks back at 2011, highlighting some of the issues faced and successes achieved and looks to the year ahead discussing what 2012 might bring for the ILS sector. As one of the most active sponsors of catastrophe ...
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• You Keep Saying That Word...

  
  The Drawn Cutlass — Authority: 470
  ... I do not think it means what you think it means. Harbour master Gregorio De Falco - the man who told the cowardly Costa Concordia captain to Get Back on Board for xxxxs sake - today woke up to find himself a national hero. Headlines in Italian newspapers roared De Falco Idol and Thank you Captain as De Falco ...
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• Chart Room: January 1, 2012 Reinsurance Renewal, Europe Property Castastrophe - Typical ROL Changes

  
  GCCapitalIdeas.com — Authority: 411
  Click here to download the full report: Catastrophes, Cold Spots & Capital: Navigating for Success in a Transitioning Market; Jan 2012 Renewal Report >>Click here to view additional... Continue reading...
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