The Tug of War Betw Continues

Stocks

This market continues trudging forward and weighing good news with bad. After stocks closed last week with their first weekly declines in nearly a month, stocks staged a mild recovery on Tuesday (Jan. 19th) led by tech, big banks, and small-caps. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Renewed Stimulus Hopes Push Stocks Higher […]

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Vantage launches collateralized insurer AdVantage Retro I Ltd. in Bermuda

Vantage Risk, the insurance and reinsurance start-up launched by industry veterans Greg Hendrick and Dinos Iordanou, has established its first insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicle in Bermuda, a collateralized insurer class company named AdVantage Retro I Ltd. We’ve learned from our sources that AdVantage Retro I Ltd., which was registered in Bermuda in December as a…

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Industry loss from Australia’s Jan 2020 hailstorms raised to A$1.9bn

The insurance and reinsurance industry loss estimate for the severe hailstorms that struck the southeastern region of Australia in January 2020 has been raised by roughly 4% to almost AU $1.9 billion. Zurich based, industry-backed estimator of catastrophe insurance and reinsurance market losses PERILS AG had originally estimated the property market loss from the hail…

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Mortgage investor Bayview lifts second cat bond target to $200m

The targeted size of the second parametric earthquake catastrophe bond for specialist mortgage security focused investment manager Bayview Asset Management, LLC looks like it could increase in size by as much as one-third, with the upper target for the Sierra Ltd. (Series 2021-1) cat bond deal now lifted to $200 million. Bayview returned to the…

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Basis risk an issue, but parametric drought risk transfer to expand: Survey

Quality and availability of data is seen as vitally important by insurance and reinsurance market players interested in covering drought related risks, as they seek to reduce basis risk in offerings, a survey from VanderSat has found. Dutch satellite technology firm VanderSat teamed up with AgroInsurance, an agricultural insurance industry knowledge hub, to poll the…

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PartnerRe gets Olympus investment for retro & specialty vehicle Laplace-C

Bermuda headquartered reinsurance company PartnerRe has set up a new retrocession and specialty reinsurance focused investment vehicle named Laplace-C and secured backing from private equity player Olympus Partners. Laplace-C has been established to take advantage of opportunities seen in the global reinsurance market at this time and we understand is just one of the initiatives…

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Wild Horses: Keystone Herbivores Critical To Public Land Management

Wild Horses

Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Benefits of evolution: Wild horses hold the key to keeping CWD under control, reducing wildfire fuels, and reseeding and restoring wildfire damaged public lands… Native species American wild horses evolved on the North American continent about 55-million years ago. So, it’s no wonder that unlike invasive species […]

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Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary Nominee, Outlines Priorities

Yellen Treasury

The King Report January 20, 2021 Issue 6430 After soaring during the Nikkei’s 1st Session, ESHs retreated sharply during the 2nd Session.  ESHs then chopped sideways until a spurt higher occurred on the NYSE open.  This rally lasted one minute.  ESHs and US stocks then declined sharply on another successful pump & dump scheme. Q4 […]

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