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B-D-S Piotr Marcinski / Shutterstock.com Are you retired — or planning to quit work soon — and looking for ways to put a little extra cash in your pocket? Your many years of hard work and experience can still be valuable once you retire. But now, you’re in a position to leverage those skills in…
Read MoreMexico’s latest World Bank supported catastrophe bond, the IBRD / FONDEN 2020 transaction, has now successfully secured $485 million of capital markets backed natural disaster insurance protection for the country, upsizing by 14% thanks to investor demand. The successful pricing of this latest World Bank facilitate catastrophe bond issuance means that the government of Mexico…
Read MoreMitsui Sumitomo, an MS&AD Holdings insurance company, has returned to the catastrophe bond market to top-up its capital markets backed reinsurance protection with a currently $75 million Akibare Re Pte. Ltd. (Series 2020-1) Japan typhoon and flood risk transaction. This new Akibare Re catastrophe bond is the fifth transaction to take that name and is…
Read MoreWelcome to the “2-Minute Money Manager,” a short video feature answering money questions submitted by readers and viewers. Today’s question is about where to retire; specifically, whether a home in a 55-plus community is a good idea. Watch the following video, and you’ll pick up some valuable info. Or, if you prefer, scroll down to…
Read MoreThe secondary market price for the tranche of the World Bank’s pandemic catastrophe bond that is most at-risk of paying out due to the spreading global coronavirus outbreak has plummeted, while the lower risk tranche has now also been marked down. As we explained last week, secondary market pricing for the World Bank’s pandemic catastrophe…
Read MoreIf you have some spare time and are looking for ways to make a little extra money, you could try filling out surveys for money. With survey companies paying out millions of dollars to users each year, it’s a legitimate way to earn an income online. Or is it? There’s a natural skepticism whenever this…
Read MoreInsured losses from the severe hailstorms that struck the southeastern region of Australia in January have risen by another 26%, with the latest estimate of insurance and reinsurance industry losses now sitting at A$805 million (around US $503m). This loss emanated from an outbreak of severe convective weather, thunderstorms, large hail and flooding affected a…
Read MoreHere are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 1st March 2020, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish. Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm,…
Read MoreThe journey in medicine is a journey of goal setting. Doctors set goals all the time. We set the goal to become a doctor then strive to achieve it. Once we decide the chosen specialty, we set the goal for the residency training program we hope to match into, and we strive to achieve that. …
Read MoreA case study seemed to confirm the presence of asymptomatic transmission within China, where a woman was afebrile with no chest CT abnormalities or laboratory abnormalities. She did not develop the virus, while five of her relatives did. An earlier report out of Germany found a woman traveling to Germany from China with vague symptoms resulting in a cluster…
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