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Hayden Capital 3Q20 Performance Update: Up +164.1% YTD
Hayden Capital performance update for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Dear Partners and Friends, Please see the following table for Hayden Capital’s quarterly performance update. During the third quarter of 2020, Hayden’s partners realized a +31.6% return on their investments, compared to +8.9% for the […]
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Read More5 Tips For Sales Leaders To Better Navigate COVID-19
Groove’s top 5 ways sales leaders can better navigate COVID and remote working Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Over the last few months, the entire sales industry has seen dramatic changes in the way teams function and interact with customers. With this in mind, Groove has put together a list of the […]
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Read MoreHudson Structured backs Aon’s “ILS friendly” solution for intellectual property assets
Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., the insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance and transportation focused investment manager, was the largest capacity provider to back a first transaction from a new financing solution for intellectual property assets created by broking group Aon. Terming the solution “an innovative ILS friendly structure”, Edouard von Herberstein, Partner at Hudson Structured’s reinsurance…
Read MoreGross to net strategy & reinsurers heavy retro use questioned by cedants
Reinsurance cedants are increasingly concerned by the heavy use of retrocession and the gross to net strategy of some reinsurers, a survey from rating agency Moody’s suggests. The gross to net strategy of some traditional reinsurers also came into question in the survey results, as there was some concern over the reliance on retrocession, especially…
Read MoreThe Stock Market Seems Safer If We Presume Rational Investors
Stock investing is scary. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more I believe that that is the core reason why there has been so little examination of the far-reaching implications of Robert Shiller’s Nobel-prize-winning research in the 39 years since it was published. What Causes Price Changes In A Rational Market? In the pre-Shiller […]
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Read MoreILS tells a compelling ESG story: Carey Olsen
Amid the ongoing expansion of the market for sustainable investment, there’s an opportunity for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector to show its alignment with environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, according to law firm Carey Olsen. Intensified by the wide-ranging effects of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, heightened awareness of the complex ESG challenges currently faced…
Read MoreBeirut explosion insured loss said $7.5bn by local insurance association
Estimates for the eventual insurance and reinsurance market loss from the devastating explosion that struck the city of Beirut, Lebanon in August are seemingly on the rise, as the President of the local insurance association has said he expects losses will reach $7.5 billion. Source: AP Photo/Hussein Malla It’s more than double his earlier estimate,…
Read MoreHurricane Delta to hit Cat 3+, threaten Mexico’s FONDEN 2020 cat bond
Tropical storm Delta has quickly intensified to become hurricane Delta as it moves through the Caribbean and the hurricane is now expected to reach major status, of Category 3 or higher, as it moves towards a landfall on the central U.S. Gulf Coast at the end of this week. Hurricane Delta became the fastest 25th…
Read MoreSwiss Re’s appetite propelled by “significant rate hardening” in catastrophe risks
In announcing its first-half results this summer, global reinsurance giant Swiss Re explained that it is experiencing and taking advantage of “significant rate hardening” across natural catastrophe exposed business lines. The company has been displaying an increasing appetite for natural catastrophe risks in recent years, leading to the increasing use of third-party capital and instruments…
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